Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

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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Army Documents Shed Light on CIA ‘Ghosting’: Systematic Concealment Of Detainees Is Found

Posted on March 24, 2005 by Team VCS

Senior defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but a review of Army documents shows that the agency’s “ghosting” program was systematic and known to three senior … Continue reading →

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US Army seeks longer enlistments as recruitment falters

Posted on March 17, 2005 by Team VCS

US Army seeks longer enlistments as recruitment falters WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States of America — The US Army has asked Congress to allow it to extend enlistment contracts offered to future soldiers by two years in order to … Continue reading →

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