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Thanks for your support in 2004 for Veterans for Common Sense
Charles Sheehan-Miles, VCS Executive Director Veterans for Common Sense December 31, 2004
As 2004 comes to a close, I'm writing to thank you for you support of Veterans for Common Sense and for all we have accomplished together.
Lawsuits Target Military Prisons: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo spur civil rights fears
Karen DeMasters Newsdesk.org December 30, 2004
Graphic descriptions of abuse in U.S. military prisons around the world -- and questions about civil rights, national security and presidential privilege -- have prompted a growing number of lawsuits against the government and the Bush administration.
In the Federal District Court in the Southern District of New York, the ACLU, CCR, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace filed suit in June 2004 demanding the release of information on military prisoner treatment.
In mid-December, the government began providing that information, which the ACLU says shows abuse of prisoners to be systematic, not an aberration.
VCS Weekly Update: OpTruth Calls for Senate Hearings on Rumsfeld
Veterans for Common Sense December 27, 2004
Last week Operation Truth, an organization founded by and for Iraq War veterans, called for Senate hearings on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's tenure in office.
Another guard unit decries training, equipment
Scott Gold The Standard Times December 27, 2004
Members of a second National Guard unit that prepared for duty in Iraq at the Army's Fort Bliss compound have come forward with allegations that they were not adequately trained. The soldiers said in interviews, e-mails and official documents that they were sent to war earlier this year with chronic illness, broken guns and trucks with blown transmissions.
Presidential order authorized torture
San Francisco Bay View December 25, 2004
A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an executive order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq. Also released by the ACLU today are a slew of other records, including a December 2003 FBI email that characterizes methods used by the Defense Department as "torture" and a June 2004 "Urgent Report" to the director of the FBI that raises concerns that abuse of detainees is being covered up.
A Lesson in War and Humanity
Thomas J. Raleigh Washington Post December 25, 2004
Read the article below, and consider Jim Gribshaw's words: When will our Nation's citizens, the press, and the Congress hold President George Bush and White House attorney Alberto Gonzales accountable for why they authorized, promoted, and condoned torturing enemy prisoners?
Remembering the Dead and the Horror of Mosul
CHRISTINE HAUSER New York Times December 25, 2004
On Tuesday, Sgt. Michael S. Posner was standing in the middle of a crowded dining hall at Forward Operating Base Marez, holding a cheeseburger and fries on a lunch tray and looking for his friends, when a huge force blew him off his feet. The rows of tables and chairs shattered into a chaos of debris and blood. Screams tore through the room. The air turned dusky with the gray aftermath of smoke and dust, out of which the faces of the living and the dead slowly emerged.
Iraq War Legacy: Homeless Combat Veterans
AMY GOODMAN Democracy Now ! December 24, 2004
With more than one million U.S. service members ever deployed to the Iraq or Afghanistan Wars, homelessness among veterans "has become one of the most shameful realities in this country," according to Juan Gonzales. "According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, nearly 300,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, almost half of them Vietnam vets."
Remembering Our Nation's Wounded During the Holidays
Susan Levine Washington Post December 24, 2004
"What's Daddy getting for Christmas?" Belinda Beatty asked her 2-year-old son, Dustin, as he spun around the tree Tuesday evening, beyond tired after a long day. "Legs!" the little boy answered.
Counting Every Vote: Patience Results in Legitimate Results in Washington
SARAH KERSHAW New York Times December 24, 2004
As the election results in Washington State make very clear to people with common sense, the best course of action is to count all ballots in a free, fair, and transparent election. The disasterous electoral failures in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, where citizens were kept from the polls and votes were not counted, raise serious and significant concerns about our liberty and the legitimacy of the current administration.
Bush Signed Secret Executive Order Approving Torture
Chris Floyd Moscow Times (Russia) December 24, 2004
According to agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, President George W. Bush has signed a secret executive order approving the use of torture against prisoners captured in his "war on terror" -- including thousands of innocent people rounded up in Iraq and crammed into Saddam Hussein's infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
Did President Bush Order Torture?
Kenneth Roth Human Rights Watch December 24, 2004
U.S. President George W. Bush should fully explain why an FBI document suggests he authorized unlawful interrogation methods, Human Rights Watch said today. An e-mail to senior FBI officials released yesterday under a Freedom of Information Act request repeatedly referred to an Executive Order that permitted military interrogators in Iraq to place detainees in painful stress positions, impose sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, intimidate them with military dogs and use other coercive methods.
They can only dream of holidays at home
Al Neuharth USA Today December 23, 2004
The founder of USA Today believes the U.S. war against Iraq should end. This is a brave stand. More disturbing, however, is the massive hate mail from those supporting the Iraq War without question. Our Nation's citizens, journalists, and political leaders should take pause when the atmosphere is so charged with vile unpatriotic hate that freedom of speech within our borders hangs in serious jeopardy.
War Crimes
Washington Post December 23, 2004
The record of the past few months suggests that the administration will neither hold any senior official accountable nor change the policies that have produced this shameful record. Congress, too, has abdicated its responsibility under its Republican leadership: It has been nearly four months since the last hearing on prisoner abuse. Perhaps intervention by the courts will eventually stem the violations of human rights that appear to be ongoing in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. For now the appalling truth is that there has been no remedy for the documented torture and killing of foreign prisoners by this American government.
Mass Casualty
Chaplain Lewis Training for Eternity December 23, 2004
This account of yesterday's attack in Mosul is written by a military chaplain who was on the scene: The scene was little more than controlled chaos. Helicopters landing, people shouting, wounded screaming, bodies everywhere. As the staff began to triage the dead and wounded I found the chaplain and offered my assistance. He directed me to where he needed me and I dove in. I would be hard pressed to write about every person I had the opportunity to pray with today but I will try to relate a few.
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