Author Archives: Team VCS

April 1, 2008 – On Tuesday, U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and committee member Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) met with Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake. They discussed funding for the National Center for Post Traumatic … Continue reading →

Washington, DC (AP) — Thе Pentagon оn Tuesday mаdе public a now-defunct legal memo thаt approved thе uѕе оf harsh interrogation techniques аgаіnѕt terror suspects, saying thаt President Bush’s wartime authority trumps аnу international ban оn torture. Thе Justice Department … Continue reading →

March 31, 2008 – New Britain, CT — Capt. Brian Letendre’s presence on Pendleton Road was short-lived but memorable. The Marine sold his house in 2005, kissed his wife and son goodbye and headed to Iraq, where he would die … Continue reading →

March 29, 2008 – James Webb, the Vietnam vet and senator from Virginia who was once secretary of the Navy, likes to share the chart he prepared for five of his Senate colleagues. They are men who fought in World … Continue reading →

March 30, 2008 – The Iraq war seems no closer to resolution today than when it began five years ago. The daily stories of death, setbacks and gains bleed together like a list of mayhem on a police blotter, rarely … Continue reading →

March 29, 2008 – Dr. Ward Casscells is assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. A prominent Houston cardiologist with interests ranging from disaster preparedness to bird flu, Casscells shook his life up when he enlisted in the U.S. Army … Continue reading →

March 27, 2008 – Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the … Continue reading →

March 26, 2008 – Former U.S. Marine Corps machine gunner John Michael Turner leaned over the microphone, his voice choking with emotion, the words barely forcing themselves out, the tears barely held back. “There’s a term ‘Once a Marine, always … Continue reading →

March 26, 2008 – Basra, Iraq — Iraqi forces fought Shi’ite militants on Wednesday in battles that threatened to wreck a truce by a powerful cleric that U.S. forces had credited for much of the reduction in violence of the … Continue reading →

March 27, 2008 – A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in Western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene … Continue reading →