Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

20 Percent Unemployment Among Veterans Age 20 – 24

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Team VCS

20 Percent Unemployment Among Veterans Age 20 – 24 JOBLESS VETSJim Nicholson, the new VA secretary, is urging employers across the country to hire veterans – particularly those with disabilities and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Nicholson told a National … Continue reading →

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Future Officers Vote with Their Feet Against Iraq War: ROTC Enrollment Falls 16 Percent

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Team VCS

Enrollment in Army ROTC Down in Past 2 School Years More Officers Now Being Commissioned From Earlier Pool, But Problem Looms By Josh WhiteWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, April 24, 2005; Page A03 Nationwide enrollment in the Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training … Continue reading →

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Rare Look Inside Baghdad Emergency Room

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Team VCS

Insurgents in Baghdad have mounted dozens of separate bombings in recent weeks. Nowhere is the fallout from the violence more apparent than in the city’s emergency rooms and trauma centers. Jamal Enad, a second-year surgical resident at Baghdad’s Yarmouk Hospital, … Continue reading →

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Top Army Officers Are Cleared in Abuse Cases

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Team VCS

An Army inspector general’s report has cleared senior Army officers of wrongdoing in the abuse of military prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere, government officials familiar with the findings said yesterday. The only Army general officer recommended for punishment for the … Continue reading →

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Let a Thousand Militias Bloom

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Team VCS

In trying to defeat the Iraqi insurgency, the Pentagon has turned to Saddam Hussein’s former henchmen. Under former Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, U.S. officials has installed many of the hated Baathists who tormented Iraq in high-level posts in the … Continue reading →

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Bush Administration Religious Profiling Sparks Federal Lawsuit

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Team VCS

Bush Administration Religious Profiling Sparks Federal Lawsuit Three influential civil rights groups charged Wednesday that border control tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security discriminate against U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, in violation … Continue reading →

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Iraq insurgents switch strategy, go for major attacks

Posted on April 22, 2005 by Team VCS

Iraq insurgents switch strategy, go for major attacks Strategists who keep close tabs on the war in Iraq are scratching their heads over a sudden shift to large-scale attacks on American bases by the insurgents who heretofore have primarily bedeviled … Continue reading →

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Iraq War Veteran to Speak in Boone North Carolina

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Team VCS

Iraq War Veteran to Speak in Boone: Navy Corpsman Addresses Veterans Rights With increasing media attention on issues of the day such as Social Security, the installation of the new Pope at the Vatican, and the Michael Jackson trial, you … Continue reading →

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Racism and War Crimes

Posted on April 9, 2005 by Team VCS

Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1st , 2003 through April 1st, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the … Continue reading →

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The casualties of war go far beyond the battlefields

Posted on April 8, 2005 by Team VCS

The casualties of war go far beyond the battlefields With the second anniversary this month of the United States invasion of Iraq, many peacemakers will participate in vigils or memorials for the dead. An interfaith group in Salt Lake City … Continue reading →

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