Tag Archives: Civil Liberties Articles & News

VCS Call To Action: Honor the Legacy

Posted on August 9, 2004 by Team VCS

Over the weekend, an article in the Oregonian (http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=1861) accompanied by graphic photographs described a very disturbing incident which took place in Iraq on June 29, one day after the handover to the Iraqi interim government. According to the article, … Continue reading →

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Bush Knew of Rumsfeld’s Torture Plans

Posted on May 16, 2004 by Team VCS

THE GRAY ZONE How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. Issue of 2004-05-24Posted 2004-05-15 The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year … Continue reading →

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My Hell in Camp X-Ray

Posted on March 12, 2004 by Team VCS

My Hell in Camp X-Ray A British captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror – and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates. Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home … Continue reading →

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Rape, Kidnap, and Persecution of Women Rise in Iraq under U.S. Occupation

Posted on December 22, 2003 by Team VCS

  So This Is Liberation?   All the shades are drawn in Raba’s house on a wide residential street in one of Baghdad’s more affluent neighborhoods. Small daughters and nieces streak through a well-appointed living room, leaving giggles and shrieks … Continue reading →

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Bush Supports Uzbekistan Dictator Who Kills Opponents by Boiling Them to Death

Posted on October 29, 2003 by Team VCS

Tony Blair’s New Friend Britain and the US claim a moral mandate – and back a dictator who boils victims to death The British and US governments gave three reasons for going to war with Iraq. The first was to … Continue reading →

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ACLU Requests Information About Prisoners Held in Cuba

Posted on October 11, 2003 by Team VCS

Rights Groups Seek Information on Detainees’ Treatment Several civil liberties and veterans groups plan to file a formal request with the federal government today seeking information on whether prisoners in U.S. custody in the war on terrorism have been tortured … Continue reading →

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Sounds Fishy, Mr. President

Posted on October 28, 2002 by Team VCS

As the United Nations Security Council considers the brief against Iraq prepared by George W. Bush, its undecided permanent members should ask themselves a basic question: How much of what the President says is actually true? The French, Russian and … Continue reading →

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‘A War Waiting for a Pretext’

Posted on September 28, 2002 by Team VCS

Sept. 27 — John Nichol knows all about the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. As a 27-year-old navigator for Britain’s Royal Air Force during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he was shot down over the Iraqi desert during the first … Continue reading →

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