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Iraq War Takes Toll on GIs' Mental Health
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos FOX News September 30, 2004
The article below claims more than 10,000 Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom veterans sought mental health services from the Department of Veterans Affairs "Vet Centers." With most war veterans still in the military, these numbers are expected to rise sharply as they return home. Our Nation must welcome the warriors home and provide them with the readjustment assistance they earned. Resource information is listed below for any war veteran who may need readjustment or mental health assistance.
VA Official: Iraq veterans face long-lasting mental health issues
Alison Young Knight Ridder Newspapers September 30, 2004
Here are the latest figures detailing the human cost of the pre-emptive and unilateral invasion and occupation of Iraq: 28,000 Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans obtained medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), many for mental health conditions. Unfortunately, the article doesn't tell citizens and taxpayers how much all of this healthcare cost, either. As VA Secretary Anthony Principi says, "... the fact of the matter is that policy-makers on both sides of the aisle need to understand that there is a price" of starting a war.
White House allegedly wrote Allawi speech
Agence France Presse Yahoo! News September 30, 2004
After several newspapers printed side-by-side comparisons of President George Bush's speech with Iraqi Prime Miniser Iyad Allawi's speech, many nearly identical quotes were found. As a result, U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) wants to know who in the Bush Administration wrote the Iraqi dictator's speeches. Copies of both speeches are provided so you can reach your own conclusion.
VCS Weekly Update: Election News
Veterans for Common Sense September 30, 2004
We won a small victory this week, thanks in part to pressure brought to bear by members of VCS. The New York Times reported this morning that Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's Secretary of State, issued a new memorandum to election officials reversing a previous decision that resulted in the rejection of thousands of voter registrations because they were printed on the wrong weight paper. Blackwell says the state will now accept registrations on normal paper. However, voters who show up at the wrong precinct will still not be allowed to cast provisional ballots.
Comparison of Voters' Views of Candidates' Foreign Policy Positions
Program on International Policy Attitudes University of Maryland September 30, 2004
As the nation prepares to watch the presidential candidates debate foreign policy issues, a new Program on International Policy Attitudes - Knowledge Networks poll finds that Americans who plan to vote for President Bush have many incorrect assumptions about his foreign policy positions. Kerry supporters, on the other hand, are largely accurate in their assessments. The uncommitted also tend to misperceive Bush’s positions, though to a smaller extent than Bush supporters, and to perceive Kerry’s positions correctly.
Plan Would Let U.S. Deport Suspects To Nations That Might Torture Them
Dana Priest and Charles Babington Washington Post September 30, 2004
The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago.
Provision of Patriot Act Is Ruled Unconstitutional
Richard B. Schmitt Los Angeles Times September 29, 2004
The article below describing today's court ruling declaring part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional represents a victory for freedom for all Americans. Veterans for Common Sense believes our freedoms of expression, speech, press, assembly, religion, privacy, due process, voting, and equal protection under the law must not be traded for any real or imagined claim of urgency or security.
The Issues: Reviving The Military Draft Due to the Iraq War
Richard Schlesinger CBS News September 29, 2004
According to the article below, the Iraq War is causing Beverly Cocco to be worried about her two draft-age sons. "I go to bed every night and I pray and I actually get sick to my stomach," she says. "I'm very worried; I'm scared. I'm absolutely scared; I'm petrified." Beverly is petrified about a military draft – and she's not alone. There's an undercurrent of anxiety; mass e-mails are circulating among parents worried their kids could be called up. "I think there's a good possibility," Beverly says.
Excuse me, Mr. President, but we're feeling a draft
Floyd J. McKay Seattle Times September 29, 2004
Floyd McKay makes a strong argument that "There is a limit on how long this government can wage hot wars by increasing reliance on the National Guard. We've not had a military draft for 30 years, but don't try to tell that to the Guard."
My son died for a lie
Rose Gentle Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom) September 29, 2004
Rose Gentle is the mother of Gordon Gentle, a British soldier killed in Iraq this year. She writes movingly about how she believes her son died in the Iraq war because of the lies told by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Military Draft - Zogby Poll Shows 60 Percent of Young Men Oppose Iraq War
John Zogby Zogby International September 29, 2004
According to a new Zogby Poll, 60 percent of young male voters say the Iraq War was "Not the Right Decision." In addition, 59 percent say President Bush misled America about the Iraq War. In the past, men were strongly supporting Bush's pre-emptive and unilateral war. Now, as thousands of dead, wounded, and injured are returning, reality hits home hard. Young men faced with the looming prospect of a military draft are quickly turning into one-issue voters questioning the Iraq War.
Can You Handle the Truth
Rick Martin Duiker Veterans for Common Sense -- Guest Column September 29, 2004
Past as prelude, I wonder. Now, sixty years after the bloodbath of WWII, fifty years after returning from Korea, I see massive guided missile strikes level cities, indiscriminately kill and maim thousands of defenseless civilians. “Shock and awe” our leaders brag. Yes, it’s a shock to see children with limbs blown off. And I’m in awe of their arrogance. Worse though, are scenes of barbaric torture, prisoners lying in pools of blood, or corpses of others beaten to death by Americans. Acts of obscene brutality carried out in my name.
Is anyone ever truly prepared to kill?
Jane Lampman Christian Science Monitor September 29, 2004
Many say Americans must learn to be honest about the nature of combat. In a culture saturated with media violence, killing has become almost trivialized. Many veterans have the wrenching experience of being asked, "How many people did you kill?"
Blair Offers an Apology, of Sorts, Over Iraq
PATRICK E. TYLER New York Times September 29, 2004
BRIGHTON, England, Sept. 28 - Prime Minister Tony Blair offered his governing Labor Party a qualified apology on Tuesday that the evidence on which he had taken Britain to war in Iraq had proved wrong.
Iraq Study Sees Rebels' Attacks as Widespread
JAMES GLANZ and THOM SHANKER New York Times September 29, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 28 - Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants.
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