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Yearly Archives: 2007
American-Backed Death Squads Roam Freely Across Iraq
November 25, 2007 – It was 9.30am when three men entered Haidar Musa’s sweet-shop and shot him repeatedly in the head as his eight-year-old daughter Zainab crouched in terror behind the counter. By midday his stricken wife Kahiriya had packed … Continue reading
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Iraq War Haunts Veteran With TBI and PTSD
November 28, 2007 – In a sense, the first chapter of James Sperry’s return home for good is set to begin this afternoon. That’s when Sperry, 22, plans to drive south from his parents’ west Belleville house to the Jefferson … Continue reading
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Bush Signs Pact With Iraq for Endless Occupation and War
November 27, 2007 – The Bush administration formally committed America yesterday to a long-term military presence in Iraq, pledging to protect the government in Baghdad from internal coup plots and foreign enemies. The cooperation pact, endorsed by George Bush and … Continue reading
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Nov 28 Update: VCS on ’20/20′ this Friday; VCS Begins End of Year Fundraising
Nov. 29 Update: VCS on ABC’s ’20/20′ This Friday Dear VCS Friends: Veterans for Common Sense has two items for you in this week’s update. First, VCS will be featured on the news program ’20/20′ this Friday, Nov. 30. ABC … Continue reading
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Iraq War Combat Veteran Helps Fellow Veterans Use VA’s Vet Centers
[Note: VCS strongly encourages veterans to use Vet Centers. VCS applauds VA’s positive outreach to de-stigmatize mental health conditions among our war veterans. To learn more about VA’s Vet Centers, please go to this web site: http://www.vetcenter.va.gov/] November 27, 2007 – Joel … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Saudi Arabia Pours Oil Money Into Terror Against U.S. in Iraq War
The news that Saudi Arabia is the nation providing the greatest number of foreign fighters in Iraq underscores the lies and duplicity at the foundation of President George W. Bush’s policies in the Middle East. When the undersecretary of the … Continue reading
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Fundamentalist Christians Have Already Penetrated Highest Military Echelons
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has made a grim discovery of manuals created by a coalescence of American fundamentalist Christians motivated by a theocratic thirst for power. In the words of Mikey Weinstein, Founder/President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation: … Continue reading
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VA Wary of Ideas to Quickly Deal With Claims Backlog
November 27, 2007 – The Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to one day harness the power of technology to speed the processing of veterans’ benefits claims, but it is wary of ideas for quickly reducing the claims backlog, which is … Continue reading
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Army Asks Several Wounded Iraq War Veterans in New York for Refunds
November 26, 2007 – Several New York veterans have been asked to repay part of their signing bonuses after war injuries prevented them from completing their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Charles Schumer said. Hundreds of veterans … Continue reading
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The Peace Drug
November 25, 2007 THE BED IS TILTING! Or the couch, or whatever. A futon. Slanted. She hadn’t noticed it before, but now she can’t stop noticing. Like the princess and the pea. By objective measure, the tilt is negligible, a … Continue reading
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