Author Archives: Team VCS

April 12, 2008 – The sad death of Iraq war veteran Stephanie Breaux, her decomposed body found April 3 in a deserted house in a hard neighborhood, presents disturbing questions authorities will work to answer. But from family and friends … Continue reading →

April 1, 2008 – When the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Americans were told Iraqi oil would cover the costs of the war and rebuilding. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld scoffed at estimates of $100 billion. Nobel Prize-winning economist … Continue reading →

Speier blasts Iraq war in first House speech Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau April 11, 2008, Washington, DC – Newly elected Democratic Representative Jackie Speier of Hillsborough was sworn into Congress Thursday morning and promptly gave a fiery speech criticizing … Continue reading →

April 9, 2008 – Families of both the victim and killer in a murder trial that ended with a guilty verdict last week say that their sons, both U.S. Army Rangers who served in Afghanistan, were negatively portrayed leading up … Continue reading →

April 10, 2008 – Washington, DC — President George W. Bush said on Thursday he would suspend U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer but tried to reassure a weary public that the war, to be handed to his successor … Continue reading →

April 11, 2008 – Morelia, Mexico — A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western … Continue reading →

April 9, 2008 – Washington, DC — The refusal of the top U.S. commander in Iraq to give Congress a timetable for additional troop withdrawals has escalated an already fierce debate about the rising cost of the conflict to taxpayers … Continue reading →

April 9, 2008, Washington, DC – No lights at the end of the tunnel. No corners turned. Give Gen. David Petraeus points for using well-understood clichés to express the obvious: We are bogged down in Iraq, the general in charge … Continue reading →

April 10, 2008 – As some of you might know, John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is … Continue reading →

April 9, 2008 – Washington, DC — The House voted Tuesday to expand research into and surveillance of traumatic brain injuries, which affect some 1.5 million Americans every year and have come to be the signature wound of the war … Continue reading →