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| Congressman Mitchell: Pausing to Consider People Who REALLY Matter |
Chairman Harry Mitchell is a Hero to Veterans Nationwide August 20, 2010 (Arizona Republic) - It's been a month since I spoke to Rep. Harry Mitchell about suicides among military veterans and I'm just getting around to writing something. |
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| What Obama Won't Say Tonight About US Withdrawal from Iraq |
| August 31, 2010 (ConsortiumNews) - President Barack Obama’s aides say his speech this evening marking the end of "combat operations" in Iraq will avoid the vainglorious aspects of President George W. Bush’s infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in 2003. We’ll see. |
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| Lawsuit Update: Prudential's Half-Billion in Dirty Secret Profits |
Families of Dead Soldiers Sue Insurer Over Its Handling of Survivors’ Benefits August 29, 2010 (New York Times) - Vickie Castro’s only child was killed six years ago just before Christmas, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Army mess tent in Mosul, Iraq, killing more than 20 people. |
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| Op-Ed: Cost of War Must Also Include Caring for Our Veterans |
Overlooked Cost of Iraq / Afghanistan Wars: Our Veterans' Healthcare and Benefits August 15, 2010 (San Francisco Chronicle) - Two years after an Army specialist saw half his platoon torn apart in Iraq, he hanged himself in a California backyard. |
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| VA Secretary Shinseki's Open Message to Gulf War Veterans |
| August 11, 2010, Washington, DC (VA Press Release) - August 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Gulf War, launched with Operation Desert Shield and followed by Operation Desert Storm. VA honors this milestone with a renewed commitment to improving our responsiveness to the challenges facing Gulf War Veterans. |
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Between Cooperation and Catastrophe: VCS Congratulates President Obama for Earning Nobel Peace Prize
Written by VCS
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:28
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VCS salutes President Barack Obama for earning the Nobel Peace Prize for two critical policy positions strongly advocated by VCS during the past seven years: ending torture and ending the foreign policy of pre-emptive, unilateral war. VCS also thanks Obama for re-engaging the U.S. in international diplomacy, searching for solutions to pollution and global warming, and reducing our most serious military threat: nuclear proliferation and its attendant threat, nuclear terrorism. We agree with the lucid observation made by former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), one of the world's top subject matter experts when it comes to reducing nuclear stockpiles. Nunn said Obama "has changed the tone of U.S. foreign policy by making it clear to the world that we are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe." |