Tag Archives: Abu Ghraib

Pentagon Drops Post in Pakistan for Top General

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Team VCS

May 9, 2008, Washington, DC – When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Blows Whistle on New Torture Film

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Team VCS

Editor’s Note: Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was the only uniformed military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib who broke the code of silence surrounding the infamous prisoner abuses. He spoke out during the Army’s internal investigation, at a congressional hearing … Continue reading →

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Ex-Iraq Commander Accuses Bush Administration of ‘Gross Incompetence’

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Team VCS

May 2, 2008 – In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year … Continue reading →

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May 3 Editorial Column: President George W. Bush Admits He Approved Torture

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Team VCS

May 1, 2008, Washington, DC – The American people have heard President Bush and his spokespeople say many times that the U.S. government does not engage in torture. Whether Bush was believed or not is another story — especially in … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column – Of Actions and Consequences, Torture and Troops

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Team VCS

The most painful thing for the inmates there were the cries of the people being tortured. One day, they brought sheets to cover the cell in order for no one to see anything. They began torturing one of them, and … Continue reading →

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Troops At Odds With Ethics Standards

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Team VCS

More than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq surveyed by the Army said they believe torture should be allowed if it helps gather important information about insurgents, the Pentagon disclosed yesterday. Four in 10 said they approve of such illegal … Continue reading →

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Editorial – America’s Shadow Army in Iraq

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Team VCS

May 1, 2007 | The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sellout on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as … Continue reading →

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Is War a Psychosis?

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Team VCS

In 1967, the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing wrote, “Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Normal men have killed 100 million of their fellow men in the past 50 years.” Wartime behavior deviates markedly from crosscultural … Continue reading →

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A Case for Accountability

Posted on April 20, 2006 by Team VCS

We have the best military in the world, hands down. We must complete what we started in Iraq, and there is no doubt in my mind that we have the military capacity to do that, provided the political will is … Continue reading →

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Personal Essay: To A Soldier

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Team VCS

  I saw you in the airport, in desert pattern combat fatigues, a duffle bag over your shoulder. Briefly, I saw myself in 1968, in this same airport, my head nearly shaved, my uniform looking like a clown suit on … Continue reading →

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