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Senator Biden Opposes Mukasey Nomination, Calls for End to Bush’s Waterboard Torture Policy
Senator Biden Issues Statement on Mukasey Nomination Following Refusal to Unequivocally State that Waterboarding is Torture. Senator Biden to Oppose Mukasey Nomination, and Biden Reiterates Call on Colleagues to Support his Legislation Banning Waterboarding and Other Forms of Torture. October … Continue reading
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When Indians’ War Duty Ends, Battle is Just Beginning
June 11, 2007 – PRESCOTT, Ariz. – Albert Laughter kneels near the fire pit in the center of the tepee, arranging his ceremonial arrowheads, bowls and pipes. He lays out the all-important eagle feathers, reverently unwrapping them from an American … Continue reading
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Were the Problems at Walter Reed Identified in 2004?
Meet Michael Kussman, the man Bush is slated to promote to Undersecretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Today Salon’s Mark Benjamin takes a look at a survey, designed to identify problems in veterans’ health care, … Continue reading
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How the U.S. Is Failing Its War Veterans
March 5, 2007 issue – After returning from Iraq in late 2005, Jonathan Schulze spent every day struggling not to fall apart. When a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic turned him away last month, he lost the battle. The 25-year-old … Continue reading
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Poplar Bluff VA Responds to Plight of Local Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran
June 13, 2007 – The John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo., took several steps in the last week to make sure newly discharged veterans don’t miss out on promised medical benefits, hospital administrator Nancy Arnold said … Continue reading
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Iraq War Veteran Pleads Guilty in Death of Infant Son
June 8, 2007 – VISTA, California —- A two-time Iraq war veteran with a history of domestic violence is likely to spend seven years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to reduced charges in connection with the death of his … Continue reading
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Area Veterans Coping with PTSD
June 9, 2007 – GLADSTONE, Michigan — Robert Stade, 59, Gladstone, says he is working hard to get his life together. After decades of living with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the Vietnam veteran has sought help for his symptoms and … Continue reading
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Concerns Grow About War Veterans’ Misdiagnoses
Brain injuries can defy easy detection June 10, 2007 – As the medical community learns more about the brain impairments afflicting troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, concern is growing back home that these battle-weary soldiers may be facing yet … Continue reading
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Congressional Hearing — Investigators: Improve VA bonus process
WASHINGTON — June 12, 2007, The VA needs to do a better job of handing out department bonuses based on performance after it awarded $3.8 million to senior budget officials who put health care at risk, investigators said Tuesday. Testifying … Continue reading
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Report: Veterans Affairs significantly overstates its success over ‘appointments’
WASHINGTON – June 12, 2007 – The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to significantly overstate its success in getting patients to see doctors for timely appointments, undercutting one of its key claims of success, according to a draft report obtained … Continue reading
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