Tag Archives: Abu Ghraib

Humane treatment: The president should not have the flexibility to order the torture or abuse of prisoners.

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Team VCS

The United States Congress should not have to pass a law requiring humane treatment of U.S. prisoners. Sadly, a clear requirement is necessary, and the Senate was right to vote 90-9 to provide one. In the war on terror, the … Continue reading →

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Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator

Posted on October 5, 2005 by Team VCS

An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers … Continue reading →

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Rogue Soldiers or Rogue President? Scapegoating Small-Fry

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Team VCS

Rogue Soldiers or Rogue President? Scapegoating Small-Fry By Ray McGovern, TruthOut, Saturday October 1, 2005     The news that yet another Army private, Lynndie England, 22, of Fort Ashby, West Virginia, has been convicted and sentenced for posing for the infamous photos of … Continue reading →

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The Buck Stops with Lynndie

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Team VCS

Lynndie England is convicted. Donald Rumsfeld cackles. England, the 22-year-old private, was found guilty as prosecutors convinced an all-male Army jury that she bore full responsibility for ”her own sick humor” in the infamous photographs of her at Abu Ghraib … Continue reading →

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Torturous Silence on Torture

Posted on September 28, 2005 by Team VCS

    Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s.    Despite the hate whipped up by administration propagandists against those it brands “terrorists,” most … Continue reading →

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War Pornography: All the News Too Ugly to Print

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Team VCS

  War Pornography: All the News Too Ugly to Print US soldiers trade grisly photos of dead and mutilated Iraqis for access to amateur porn. The press is strangely silent. If you want to see the true face of war, … Continue reading →

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UN Human Rights Body to Scrutinise U.S. Abuses

Posted on September 21, 2005 by Team VCS

The U.N. Human Rights Committee, scheduled to meet in Geneva next month, has written to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) calling for any available evidence of human rights abuses by the United States — particularly in the aftermath of its global war … Continue reading →

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Unraveling of the U.S. Military

Posted on September 19, 2005 by Team VCS

In a recent speech at Fort Bragg, a major U.S. military base, president Bush declared, “There is no higher calling than service in our armed forces.” It seems fewer and fewer young Americans and their parents agree with him. The … Continue reading →

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U.S. Repeats U.K. Failure in Iraq

Posted on September 5, 2005 by Team VCS

U.S. Repeats U.K. Failure in Iraq The most important news from Iraq last week was not the much ballyhooed constitutional pact by Shias and Kurds, nor the tragic stampede deaths of nearly 1,000 pilgrims in Baghdad. The U.S. Air Force’s … Continue reading →

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A woman soldier’s war in Iraq

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Team VCS

“A woman soldier has to toughen herself up,” writes Kayla Williams, a former US military intelligence officer who has penned an account of what it is like to be a woman serving in Iraq. “Not just for the enemy, for … Continue reading →

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