Author Archives: Team VCS

Salt Lake City Mayor Calls for Protest Against Bush Speech to VFW Rocky’s call to protest Bush makes vets see red; Mayor’s e-mail: ‘Nothing radical,’ supporters say By Glen Warchol The Salt Lake TribuneSalt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City Mayor … Continue reading →

On a high-profile and bi-partisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, Senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers and heard from native Inuit … Continue reading →

In two shootings by Iraq vets, war stress blamed By Angie Wagner and Denise Lavoie, Associated Press Writers  |  August 20, 2005 One was a skinny 20-year-old discharged from the Army who couldn’t shake the piercing rat-a-tat-tat reminders of combat. … Continue reading →

Homeless vets get heroes’ funeral BY EMILY NGO Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 From the procession of uniformed officers to the solemn rendition of taps, the double funeral Tuesday of U.S. Army veterans Harold Beison Jr. and … Continue reading →

Continued violence claimed the lives of four American soldiers today, the military said. They were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the northern city of Samarra this morning. No other details were made available. Today’s violence follows a deadly … Continue reading →

One month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three State Department bureau chiefs warned of “serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance” in a secret memorandum prepared for a superior. The State Department officials, who had been … Continue reading →

SEVEN months into George W. Bush’s second term, it is clear that whatever his expansive second Inaugural Address may have promised, American foreign policy has taken a decidedly pragmatic turn. In practice, the Bush administration has recently begun to pursue … Continue reading →

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has set up a vigil near President Bush’s ranch, said Tuesday that she was “very disturbed” that a local resident had mowed down hundreds of small crosses bearing the … Continue reading →

It looks increasingly as if President Bush may have been off by 74 years in his assessment of Iraq. By deposing the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Bush assumed he would bring Iraq to its 1787 moment — the crafting of … Continue reading →