Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Detainee Questioning Was Faked, Book Says

Posted on May 1, 2005 by Team VCS

The U.S. military staged the interrogations of terrorism suspects for members of Congress and other officials visiting the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make it appear the government was obtaining valuable intelligence, a former Army translator who worked … Continue reading →

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Return of Our Fallen

Posted on April 30, 2005 by Team VCS

Return of Our Fallen For More Information Contact:Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware (302) 831-2687 Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000Daniel Mach, Counsel, Jenner & Block (202) 637-6313 Washington, D.C., April … Continue reading →

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Lawmakers shift tone on accountability for prison abuse scandal

Posted on April 30, 2005 by Team VCS

A year ago, when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, several U.S. senators warned that top military officers and civilian policy-makers must share the blame for lower-ranking soldiers who abused prisoners. That hasn’t happened. Instead, while the scandal has widened … Continue reading →

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Unready for combat

Posted on April 29, 2005 by Team VCS

When Dustin W. Peters, an Air Force supply technician, arrived in Kuwait in January 2004, all he and his fellow airmen knew was that they would be supporting US troops in Iraq. But when their unit received its assignment, they … Continue reading →

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Chalabi Named Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq

Posted on April 29, 2005 by Team VCS

Thwarted in his bid to be Iraq’s leader, one-time Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi has nevertheless captured a key position in the new government _ a deputy prime minister’s spot and temporary control of the lucrative oil ministry. With his nephew … Continue reading →

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U.S.: Abu Ghraib Only the “Tip of the Iceberg”

Posted on April 28, 2005 by Team VCS

The crimes at Abu Ghraib are part of a larger pattern of abuses against Muslim detainees around the world, Human Rights Watch said on the eve of the April 28 anniversary of the first pictures of U.S. soldiers brutalizing prisoners … Continue reading →

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The Myth of U.S. Cultural, Religious, Political, and Social Superiority

Posted on April 27, 2005 by Team VCS

The concept of Manifest Destiny describes the 19th century conviction that God intended the continent of North America to be under the control of Christian, European Americans. The ideology of Manifest Destiny was the backbone of U.S. government efforts to … Continue reading →

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U.S. Prison Population Soars in 2003, ’04

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON – Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nation’s prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents, the government reported Sunday. By last June 30, … Continue reading →

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Rebels improve bomb schemes in Iraq

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON — Iraqi insurgents keep finding new ways to conceal and detonate deadly improvised explosive devices, making the Pentagon’s countermeasures that much more difficult to develop, confidential military documents say.          “Enemy sophistication continually improves,” said a recent U.S. military briefing to … Continue reading →

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Mexico City Mayor’s Supporters Speak With Quiet March

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Team VCS

MEXICO CITY, April 24 – A capital typically clogged with traffic was thronged Sunday by hundreds of thousands of people who marched into the main plaza to protest a government effort against Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador that threatens to … Continue reading →

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