Yearly Archives: 2007

November 20, 2007 – The Bush administration’s nominee to be the next secretary of veterans’ affairs will appear before a Senate committee Dec. 5 to answer questions about what he will bring to the job if confirmed. This could be … Continue reading →

November 16, 2007 House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Announces Hearing on Mental Health for Veterans Washington, D.C. – Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) announced that the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs will hold a hearing to examine current mental health care available … Continue reading →

November 16, 2007 – Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq … Continue reading →

Soldier decries AWOL arrest at hospital Lexington, Kentucky, November 20, 2007 — A soldier facing his second tour of duty in Iraq said in a jailhouse interview he was at a hospital seeking mental help when he was arrested in … Continue reading →

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at the cases of three badly wounded veterans and their struggles to get disability benefits from the VA.  In the documentary, VA’s Acting Secretary Gordon Mansfield says 224,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans already filed … Continue reading →

March 9, 2007 – The scandal at Walter Reed is not an isolated incident. It is directly related to our foreign policy of interventionism. There is a pressing need to reassess our now widely accepted role as the world’s lone … Continue reading →

November 15, 2007 – In a déjà vu announcement, the Department of Veterans Affairs says a computer containing the names, Social Security numbers and birthdates of 12,000 veterans was taken over the Veterans’ Day weekend from the VA medical center … Continue reading →

The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution. Nov. 15, 2007 – Under crisis conditions of an extraordinary magnitude political leadership of … Continue reading →

November 14, 2007 – More than 1,000 people from 85 countries who are accused of such crimes as rape, killings, torture and genocide are living in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security figures. America has become a … Continue reading →

NPR NEWS REPORTS: PENTAGON FIGURES SHOW SUBSTANTIALLY MORE TROOPSDISCHARGED FOR MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOR ISSUESTHAN BEFORE THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTANON NPR NEWS ALL THINGS CONSIDEREDTODAY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AUDIO TO BE AVAILABLE AT 7 P.M. (ET) AT WWW.NPR.ORG November … Continue reading →