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Editorial - Funds for Veterans and the Wounded
Washington Times Editorial Board Washington Times June 30, 2007
Acting in a bipartisan manner, Congress is right to increase the president's inadequate funding proposals to serve the needs of injured veterans.
Lawmakers Push for Better Veterans Care
Hope Yen, Associated Press The Guardian June 30, 2007
Congress members on Friday urged a presidential panel to use its sway with President Bush to finally solve years of problems with veterans health care.
Person of the Week - Sergeant Eric Edmundson
Dean Reynolds ABC News June 30, 2007
Ed Edmundson has nothing but good things to say about the treatment his son received at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But, as with many other wounded vets, it is the postdischarge period he said that is badly flawed.
Bush Plays Al Qaida Card to Bolster Support for Iraq Policy
Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers June 30, 2007
Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida "the main enemy" in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts.
Bush, Mideast Wars and End-Time Prophecy
JP Briggs, II, PhD and Thomas D. Williams Truthout June 30, 2007
President George W. Bush has become dangerously steeped in ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse, an imminent war with Satanic forces in the Middle East , and an urgency to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God's end-of-days plan, according to close observers.
Military Stifles Web-Based Health Records System
Bob Brewin Government Executive June 30, 2007
Two Defense Department medical agencies have attempted to stall the deployment of a popular Internet-based health records system in favor of pursuing their own systems costing hundreds of times as much, according to congressional sources and documents furnished to Government Executive.
Congressman Filner Says PTSD Misdiagnoses Cheat Veterans
Rick Maze Army Times June 30, 2007
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee plans a summer attack on the military’s disability review system, hoping that congressional hearings focusing on what he called the “terrible scandal of deliberate misdiagnosis” of mental health problems could lead to an overhaul of government policies.
Battlefield Breakdown - The Full Price of War in Iraq
John King CNN June 30, 2007
Army Sgt. Chris Tucker is a textbook case of the wear and tear of multiple deployments to Iraq and the strain this remarkably frustrating war has been on the men and women who serve in it.
1.8 Million U.S. Veterans Have No Health Care
Victor Martinez Op-Ed News June 30, 2007
As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
Military Makes Little Effort Made to Find Deserters
Estes Thompson Associated Press June 29, 2007
Despite a rise in desertions from the Army as the Iraq war drags on into a fifth year, the U.S. military does almost nothing to find those who flee and rarely prosecutes those it gets its hands on.
Senator Leahy Urges Passage of Open Goverment Act to Strength FOIA
Senator Leahy June 29, 2007
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday noted the upcoming 41st anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) and urged lawmakers to pass the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act (“OPEN Government Act,” S. 849). The bipartisan legislation would update FOIA for the first time in ten years.
Whack-A-Mole -- Who Calls Shots in Iraq, U.S. or Insurgents?
Frank James Chicago Tribune June 29, 2007
That important question came up at today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing which was examining whether the military surge in Iraq was working.
Peaceful Citizens Carrying Sign 'Torture is Not a Family Value' Lead Gonzales to Cancel Speech
Alyson Outen KTVB June 29, 2007
A peaceful protest turned vocal Tuesday afternoon as America’s top attorney refuses to speak before those who oppose him.
Iraq Strategy Geared to U.S. Pullout
Julian Barnes Los Angeles Times June 29, 2007
U.S. commanders plan a summer of stepped-up offensives against Al Qaeda in Iraq as they tailor strategy to their expectation that Congress soon will impose a timeline for drawing down U.S. forces here.
Surging Toward Disaster in Iraq
Juan Cole Salon Magazine June 29, 2007
Earlier this week Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior Republican from Indiana, dismissed the U.S. "surge" in Iraq as unlikely to succeed. He condemned any illusions about staying the course. "We have overestimated what the military can achieve, we have set goals that are unrealistic, and we have inadequately factored in the broader regional consequences of our actions," Lugar said from the Senate floor.
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