Author Archives: Team VCS

Vet in a Suit: Testimony from the Iraq Veterans Against the War

March 17, 2008 – It’s been determined that taxi drivers have the most dangerous job in Iraq, and if the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier event this past weekend had taken place in Baghdad, my taxi driver might … Continue reading

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Editorial Column: Iraq War: A Colossal Failure

March 18, 2008 – Nearly five years into a war that might drag on for decades, Vice President Dick Cheney visited Iraq and declared, “If you look back on those five years, it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless … Continue reading

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Jonathan Foster: Weekly Series Puts Faces on San Diego’s Homeless

March 18, 2008 – Though it’s a few miles outside his congressional district, Rep. Bob Filner stopped by San Diego’s temporary homeless shelter on March 7, located this year in a Petco Park parking lot, and gave something of an … Continue reading

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Mar 20: The Good Soldier – Profile of Iraq War Veteran Advocate Andrew Pogany

March 20, 2008 – Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not like green eggs and ham! It was September 28, 2003, Andrew Pogany’s second day in Iraq, and he was steering … Continue reading

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Mar. 20, Our View: The Five Year Anniversary of the Iraq War Brings New Facts, Yet Few Solutions

In the reality-based world here in America, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Bush administration’s failed war brought terrible news. The financial cost of the war is expected to range from $2 trillion to $5 trillion, a number … Continue reading

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Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

March 18, 2008 – Karen Kwiatkowski spent two decades as a career military officer in the United States Air Force before being assigned in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s … Continue reading

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Five Years Into War, Soldiers Speak

March 19, 2008 – Washington, DC — Today marks the fifth anniversary of the day President Bush announced from the Oval Office the “opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign” to invade Iraq. On that day, … Continue reading

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Ex-US Attorney Cites GOP voter Abuse

March 17, 2008 – David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, recalled receiving an e-mail in late summer 2002 from the Department of Justice suggesting “in no uncertain terms” that U.S. attorneys should immediately begin working with local … Continue reading

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The Sacrifices Made by ‘One Tough SOB’

March 17, 2008 – The first time Jonathan Lujan signed up for the Marine Corps, he was 23 and married, and the young couple wanted a way to see the world. The second time, on Nov. 1, 2001, it was … Continue reading

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Activist to Lead Anti-War Campaign

March 18, 2008 – The manager of anti-war candidate Ned Lamont’s 2006 Senate campaign was named Monday as coordinator of a $20 million nationwide effort to oppose the war in Iraq as a continuing economic disaster. Tom Swan is the … Continue reading

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