Author Archives: Team VCS

A spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens, said every reasonable possibility was being investigated. The Washington Post on Friday quoted a military source as saying an A-10 Thunderbolt II warplane may have mistaken the Marines for Iraqi fighters and attacked … Continue reading →

Washington, DC (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq, New Yorker Magazine reported. In an article for its April 7 … Continue reading →

Washington, DC — Though the scion of a family steeped in politics and public service, George W. Bush remains a young president who came to the White House with relatively limited knowledge of the world and its ills. Yet for … Continue reading →

… Rumsfeld tactics fail as chief admits: “This is not what we war-gamed for” … Washington – It has all begun to go horribly wrong for Donald Rumsfeld. The White House’s No1 hawk dreamed of a swift, hi-tech precision war. … Continue reading →

Washington – A top Pentagon health official conceded Tuesday that conducting physical examinations of troops after military deployments might help prevent a recurrence of gulf war illness. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, also told a congressional … Continue reading →

But after the setbacks, guerrilla-style ambushes, downed helicopters and disturbing images of US soldiers dying or being taken prisoner over the past two days, the mood has changed abruptly, “My God, this is getting much messier than I thought,” was … Continue reading →

Horrific images of Iraqi civilians reportedly killed by the coalition bombing of Basra were being shown on the Arabic news station al-Jazeera yesterday. Several Arab media outlets described the civilian deaths there as a “massacre”. Al-Jazeera’s footage included an Iraqi … Continue reading →

Last September 24th, as Congress prepared to vote on the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq, a group of senior intelligence officials, including George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence, briefed the Senate Foreign Relations … Continue reading →

If the only thing we still have to fear is fear itself, there is more than enough to go around. When President Roosevelt coined the phrase in his inaugural address in 1933, he used it to banish fear and steel … Continue reading →

Up to nine dead Marines. A dozen soldiers in an Army convoy attacked and missing, some looking glum and scared in Iraqi custody while comrades lay dead nearby. Uncounted wounded on multiple, acrid battlefields. Then the self-inflicted harm: a British … Continue reading →