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Yearly Archives: 2008
ACLU Obtains Heavily Redacted CIA Documents Regarding Waterboarding Torture
May 27, 2008, New York, NY – The American Civil Liberties Union today obtained several heavily redacted documents concerning the CIA’s use of waterboarding as well as a CIA Office of Inspector General report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention … Continue reading
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VA Rejects Directive to Help Vets Register to Vote
May 31, 2008 – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last week said it would refuse to abide by a 14-year-old presidential directive requiring it to help register veterans to vote. It says doing so would detract from providing medical … Continue reading
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Don’t Throw Sergeant VerSteegh From His House
May 29, 2008 – I’m delighted Senator Webb’s GI Bill and Senator McCain’s opposition to it presents another opportunity to emphasize that the neoconservative elite who lied about Iraq also lied about “supporting the troops” — the very club they … Continue reading
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Bush Gives Congress a To-Do List
May 31, 2008, Washington, DC – President Bush has a to-do list awaiting Congress when lawmakers return from their Memorial Day recess. “I hope members of Congress return rested because they have a lot of work left on important issues … Continue reading
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Tagged terrorism
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VA Ignores PTSD in Women
May 27, 2008 – As a female soldier or Marine, you prepare for service with a lot of training with your squad, a lot of extra time in the gym, a lot of mental and physical preparation. But nothing could … Continue reading
Obama Outlines Broad Plan to Correct Lapses in VA Services for Montanans Suffering From PTSD
May 28, 2008, Missoula, MT – Senator Barack Obama released a report today on the major difficulties faced by Montana veterans in obtaining treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and outlined a broad agenda of investments and reforms to improve Montana’s … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, PTSD, VA Claims Crisis
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Newspaper Editorial: Overblown? VA Secretary James Peake Should Think Twice About Stigmatizing PTSD
My 30, 2008 – Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake suggested during a visit to Quinhagak that concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and traumatic brain injury, or TBI, are overblown. He likened some of the head injuries to … Continue reading
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‘Virtual Iraq’ Used to Treat PTSD
May 19, 2008 – In November, 2004, when he was nineteen years old, a marine I’ll call Travis Boyd found himself about to rush the roof of the tallest building in the northern end of Falluja in the midst of … Continue reading
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May 30, Los Angeles Times Editorial Column: Senator McCain’s Attack on Veterans
Senator McCain’s respectful rhetoric isn’t matched by his votes. May 30, 2008 – More than a few people have been puzzled by Sen. John McCain’s dogged opposition to the updated GI Bill of Rights now before Congress. The dissonance between McCain’s … Continue reading
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U.S. Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis to Christianity
May 30, 2008 – Some U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq appear to have launched a major initiative to covert thousands of Iraqi citizens to Christianity by distributing Bibles and other fundamentalist Christian literature translated into Arabic to Iraqi Muslims. A … Continue reading
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