Author Archives: Team VCS

Editor’s Note: As of August 4, 2005, 1,821 American troops and between 22,500 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the war in Iraq. Domestically, the bill for the war has reached $204.6 billion. This is the first in … Continue reading →

Web Site Displays Raw Uncensored Iraq War Footage See the War, After an Ad for the ArmyThis week the Web site ifilm.comintroduced a new “channel” called WarZone (www.ifilm.com/warzone) with film clips from World War II, Vietnam, Israel and Iraq. Looking … Continue reading →

Extortion Racket: Military Says Troops Demanded ‘Rent’ From Iraqi VendorsBy Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, 6:46 PM PDT, August 5, 2005 California Army National Guard troops charged unauthorized, off-the-books “rent” to Iraqi-owned businesses inside Baghdad’s Green Zone in … Continue reading →

Everyday I pass homeless people on the subway and streets. Many of them hold up signs saying that they served in the Vietnam War. Sometimes I don’t allow myself to think about it. I hand them a dollar and go … Continue reading →

The day the Marines crossed into Iraq, Cpl. James Welter Jr. killed his first man. During his second combat tour, he earned a commendation for leadership skills and coolness under fire, but he brought a nightmare home. Now, with six … Continue reading →

Galloway says Blair and Bush ‘have blood on their hands’ Tony Blair and George Bush have “far more blood on their hands” than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today. Mr Galloway, Respect MP … Continue reading →

Has a loser ever looked so cocky? When Paul Hackett mounted a Cincinnati stage on Tuesday night, he had a DJ cue up Wild West music and then twirled and holstered an imaginary pistol for his delighted supporters, who cheered … Continue reading →

Iraq’s new democracy will be crippled from the outset if the drafts of the country’s permanent constitution being circulated are any indication of where things are headed. In a significant rollback from language in the interim constitution, known as the … Continue reading →

In June, The Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson offered a mischievous explanation for why a spate of opinion polls showed Americans growing increasingly disillusioned with the Iraq war. The American people hate futile wars fueled by dishonesty, Meyerson wrote, but they … Continue reading →