Author Archives: Team VCS

Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, a nonprofit advocacy group, said he was discouraged, but not surprised, that so few service members are being seen by mental-health specialists. The need to maintain troop strength, he believes, is … Continue reading →

March 10 Update – VCS Fights for Veterans in Federal Court, Our Civil Liberties Remain in Danger, and President Bush Endorses Torture Dear #Salutation#: Hearings Progress in California – All week long, VCS Executive Director Paul Sullivan was in San … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – The anti-war base of the Democratic Party is back for the election year with a message to voters worried about the economy: Blame the war in Iraq. Gearing up for the fifth anniversary of the launch … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – More than five years of recycling soldiers through Iraq and Afghanistan’s battlefields is creating record levels of mental health problems, as about three in 10 GIs on their third tour admit emotional illnesses, according to an … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – Three trillion dollars — a controversial number expected by one prominent economist to be the low side of the real cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — is a statistic. One troubled veteran of those … Continue reading →

March 8, 2008 – President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks. “The bill Congress … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – Cayman Islands – Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – Democrats in the House of Representatives – teetering on the verge of compliance with the spy power demands of the Bush administration – have devised a plan that would give the president everything he has demanded, … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors. The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department´s long history of using service … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – As the war in Iraq slides into its sixth year a few days from now, a cottage industry has grown up to determine how much the conflict has actually cost. Last week, Senate Democrats carried out … Continue reading →