Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Team VCS

How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay Martin Mubanga went on holiday to Zambia, but ended up spending 33 months in Guantanamo Bay, some of the time in the feared Camp Echo. Free at last and still protesting … Continue reading →

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Hunger for Dictatorship

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Team VCS

Hunger for Dictatorship: War to export democracy may wreck our own Students of history inevitably think in terms of periods: the New Deal, McCarthyism, “the Sixties” (1964-1973), the NEP, the purge trials—all have their dates. Weimar, whose cultural excesses made … Continue reading →

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Homeless Veterans Wait Years for Aid

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Team VCS

Homeless Veterans Wait Years for Aid John Staresinich is a Purple Heart veteran who has slept in cracks in highway overpasses and abandoned cars, camped out in thin tents next to railroad tracks and fought off rats and bugs in … Continue reading →

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Abuses Endangered Veterans in Cancer Drug Experiments

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Team VCS

Abuses Endangered Veterans in Cancer Drug Experiments ALBANY – Carl M. Steubing, a decorated Battle of the Bulge veteran whose experience of war made him a pacifist but also instilled in him a zest for living life at full tilt, … Continue reading →

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Gay vets’ benefits at risk?

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Team VCS

Gay vets’ benefits at risk? As many as a million gay and lesbian veterans depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for health care—including many who can’t get HIV/AIDS care anywhere else. It’s reason enough for GLBT activists to … Continue reading →

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Wounded in Action

Posted on February 4, 2005 by Team VCS

Wounded in Action The first symptom was sleeplessness. It was July 2003 and Lance Corporal David McGough of the Royal Army Medical Corps was just back from a five-month tour of duty in Basra, Iraq. Lots of the lads from … Continue reading →

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Gonzales Added to War Crimes Complaint in Germany

Posted on February 3, 2005 by Team VCS

Gonzales Added to War Crimes Complaint in Germany New Evidence Shows Fay Report on Abu Ghraib Protected Officials; Center for Constitutional Rights Says Attorney General Designate’s Testimony before the Senate Confirms His Role in Abu Ghraib Torture Synopsis: CCR filed … Continue reading →

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Leishmaniasis skin disease strikes U.S. troops in Iraq War

Posted on February 3, 2005 by Team VCS

Troops unable to be treated for skin disease in Iraq will be seen by doctors in U.S. ARLINGTON, Virginia — U.S.-based military doctors are bracing for a wave of servicemembers returning from Iraq this spring whose treatment for a skin … Continue reading →

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Dear America from an Iraq War veteran

Posted on February 2, 2005 by Team VCS

Dear America, I am a soldier, and I served in Iraq. I spent the last year riding in an unarmored humvee with no doors, open to the whims of the enemy and the splashes of sewage from the wheels. I … Continue reading →

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Returning veterans paint grim picture of war’s toll

Posted on January 28, 2005 by Team VCS

Returning veterans paint grim picture of war’s toll Soldiers recently returned from Iraq gave an unfiltered and unflattering assessment of the war’s human toll as they detailed their war experiences to a crowd of Oakton Community College students and faculty … Continue reading →

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