Military Resistance 10G24 : the Screaming General

July 29, 2012 - Lieutenant General William Caldwell was in charge of training Afghan forces when complaints about corruption and conditions at US-funded Dawood National Military Hospital, including "open vats of blood draining out of soldiers’ wounds, feces on the floor" and patients suffering with maggots, were brought to his attention. US military officers told Congress on Tuesday he obstructed an investigation into the hospital because he was under "enormous pressure to present a positive image of the war effort" during the 2010 US midterm election year. One active-duty officer testified that the three-star general, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, who headed the training mission in Afghanistan, forced him to retract a request for an inspector general’s investigation into the Dawood national military hospital...

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