That makes sense we have the red chinese building our weapons for us, the National parks and Corps campgrounds reservation system is run by a company in Canada, you would think we would hire american. I was in the Nashville VA for the third time in 5 days on friday I saw two young men maybe 19 lost and confused in the moster that we have to deal with. They had some kind of rash, sores, on thier hands, arms, and faces. These are areas most likely to be exposed to a chemical agent, but the VA said it is a fungus that is not uncommon in damp aeras and most soldiers get it sooner or later. I guess Iraq has changed it's climate from arrid to tropical. Another litlle tidbit. They have decided that it was more important to build a huge fish pond in an atrium that once had an arbor with a landscaped garden. The pharmacey has a practice of denieing certian drugs for patients on the basis of cost. The doctors have to prove that a vet absolutely needs the newer drug, instead of a less effective but much cheaper drug. yet a 100,000 dollar fish tank is good for the nerves, and the employee recreation center is more important than another bed in the wards. I am all for a happy staff but the patients do not have access to half of the stuff they have hid in that area. Then we wonder why our economy is so screwed up.