Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

In Gitmo

Posted on July 10, 2005 by Team VCS

In Gitmo   This week in New Yorker magazine, Jane Mayer writes about the United States military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and raises new questions about the treatment of detainees. Here, with Amy Davidson, Mayer talks about interrogation … Continue reading →

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England to Plead Not Guilty in Second Trial

Posted on July 8, 2005 by Team VCS

FORT HOOD, Tex., July 7 — Attorneys for Lynndie R. England, the Army private who appeared in iconic photos of inmate abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, said Thursday that she will plead not guilty when the Army reopens her … Continue reading →

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Bush Answers Gonzales Critics

Posted on July 7, 2005 by Team VCS

President Bush tried Wednesday to quell the conservative criticism engulfing Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, his longtime adviser, and scolded special interest groups for exploiting the debate over the next Supreme Court justice to raise funds. In his first news … Continue reading →

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Johnny Comes Marching Home to Loans

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Team VCS

 Maybe figuring that it is mostly worried moms keeping their kids home, the army, after its fourth straight month of recruitment shortfalls, has begun broadcasting a new series of TV ads. They feature young people telling their folks about the … Continue reading →

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‘I’m Not Going to Come Home’: One Marine’s Third Iraq Tour

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Team VCS

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Shaded by a towering blue spruce in Wheeler Park stands a gray granite monument that honors this city’s men and women who have died in combat from the Spanish-American War to, as the memorial reads, “Iraqi Freedom.” … Continue reading →

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UK aid funds Iraqi torture units

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Team VCS

British and American aid intended for Iraq’s hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings, The Observer can reveal. Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons … Continue reading →

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Two U.S. troops found dead in Afghanistan

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Team VCS

KABUL (Reuters) – Two U.S. special forces soldiers who went missing in eastern Afghanistan a week ago have been found dead and one rescued, but the whereabouts of a fourth remains unknown, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. The bodies … Continue reading →

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56 Founders with Common Sense: Our Nation’s Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 4, 2005 by Team VCS

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and … Continue reading →

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Veterans Affairs deep in the red and going deeper

Posted on July 3, 2005 by Team VCS

Veterans Affairs deep in the red and going deeper WASHINGTON – Fred Malphurs has canceled plans to replace equipment, postponed two new outpatient clinics and holds a waiting list of 7,844 people who want appointments at veterans hospitals and clinics … Continue reading →

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Torture and Accountability

Posted on July 2, 2005 by Team VCS

Torture and Accountability by ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN, The Nation, July 18, 2005 Although the terrible revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib hit the front pages in April 2004, no senior officials in the US military or the Bush Administration have yet … Continue reading →

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