Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

May 9 VCS in the News: Questions and Answers About Veterans Suicide

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Team VCS

May 9, 2008, Washington, DC – Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake took heated questions this week on Capitol Hill about whether his agency was withholding information about the number of veterans who are committing suicide. His testimony was prompted by … Continue reading →

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Killing by the Numbers – The Use of Snipers in the Iraq War

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Team VCS

May 9, 2008 – Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle pump house along the banks of the Euphrates. Each day at midmorning, he would start the seven-horsepower pump to water his crops. Khudair … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Drops Post in Pakistan for Top General

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Team VCS

May 9, 2008, Washington, DC – When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Hawks

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Team VCS

May 6, 2008 – In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, folks who care about the peace issue would have serious reason to worry. Both of these candidates are inveterate hawks, and what we would be up against … Continue reading →

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May 8: Pentagon Deployed 43,000 Medically Unfit Soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Team VCS

May 8, 2008, Washington, DC — More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This reliance on troops … Continue reading →

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Mental Health Care Needed for Our Servicemen, Women

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Team VCS

May 7, 2008 – Sometimes it amazes me how little logic the military really applies to the men and women who wear the uniform. Not just the individual branches, but the overall Department of Defense as well. Why should it … Continue reading →

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Veteran Suicide Rates Questoned

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Team VCS

May 6, 2008, Washington, DC – Lawmakers are questioning whether the Department of Veterans Affairs has been accurately reporting the number of veterans who commit suicide or if it’s covering up the data. At a hearing held by the House … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Returning Vets: Shh! Don’t Worry

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Team VCS

May 7, 2008 – It looks as though the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to keep Ira Katz on as mental health director. Katz tried to keep the alarming rate of veteran suicides quiet with a “Shh!” … Continue reading →

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VA Official On Veterans’ Attempted Suicides: ‘Shh!’

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Team VCS

May 7, 2008 – The director of mental health at the VA yesterday told the House Veterans Affairs Committee he made a poor choice when he wrote ‘Shh!’ in an email to colleagues discussing veterans’ suicide attempts. The line “was … Continue reading →

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Lampson Calls for VA to Look Into Clinics

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Team VCS

May 6, 2008, Texas City, TX – U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Stafford, asked the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate reports of poor staff performance at two health care clinics in Galveston County. In a letter dated April 30 … Continue reading →

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