Letters to the Editor
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Thanks for your original article and CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations on the results your reporting is already producing!!!!
Your article about sending injured troops to Iraq was so important, and I had been so distressed to see how little coverage it received in the mainstream media. I assumed it would require reporting by the msm for the Congress to take notice.
But it's a new day, and a few Democrats in important places in Congress proved that the recipients of the message, namely Democrats in the majority, are more important than the messenger. Even if GOP Senators and Members of Congress had read such an article in Salon just a few months ago, they would not have said a thing publicly. They have already demonstrated their cravenness in the way they either ignored or tried to deal quietly -- and ineffectively -- with the outrageously poor medical and bureacratic treatment received by far too many of our troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The quick response by Democratic lawmakers to your reporting makes the GOP's lack of action look even more shameful.
Salon has always done such an outstanding job of covering important issues and developments. It is a thrill to see your investigative reporting produce such quick, if preliminary, results. Thank you, Mark Benjamin and Salon!