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Editorial Column: Vet's Mom Shows that Mother's Day is About More than Flowers and Cards
Kathleen Parker The Daily Republic May 09, 2008
This year American consumers are expected to spend an average of $138.63 each on flowers, cards and gifts for Mother’s Day, for a grand total of $15.8 billion.
Battle of the Hawks
Robert Scheer Truth Dig May 09, 2008
In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, folks who care about the peace issue would have serious reason to worry.
From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules
Marjorie Cohn Common Dreams May 09, 2008
Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee.
Pentagon Drops Post in Pakistan for Top General
Eric Schmitt The New York Times May 09, 2008
When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
GI Benefits Stymie Funding Bill
Richard Wolf USA Today May 09, 2008
Democratic leaders in Congress retreated Thursday from a plan that includes an expensive new education benefit for post-9/11 military service veterans in the latest war-funding bill.
Killing by the Numbers - The Use of Snipers in the Iraq War
Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver Salon May 09, 2008
In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
Broken Military: Pentagon Reports 58,300 Soldiers Given Stop Loss Orders to Stay in Military
Julian E. Barnes Los Angeles Times May 09, 2008
The jump coincides with the extension of combat tours from 12 to 15 months.
May 9 VCS in the News: Questions and Answers About Veterans Suicide
Kimberly Hefling Asociated Press May 09, 2008
Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake took heated questions this week on Capitol Hill about whether his agency was withholding information about the number of veterans who are committing suicide.
May 9, VCS in the News: Sen. Bond Proposes Opening Vet Centers to Active Duty Soldiers
David Goldstein The Kansas City Star May 09, 2008
More and more troops are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health issues, so U.S. officials Thursday offered new plans to get them help.
Help Can be Hard to Accept for Soldiers with Mental Health Needs
Dana Hall Mercury News May 09, 2008
War veterans who lost arms and legs don't think twice about getting fit for prosthetics. But when it comes to psychological injuries, many pause.
NOVA Testifies Before Congress on Veterans' Issues
Statement of Richard Paul Cohen, Executive Director, National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, I Nationa Organization of Veterans' Advocates May 09, 2008
NOVA is a not-for-profit § 501(c)(6) educational organization incorporated in 1993 and dedicated to train and assist attorneys and non-attorney practitioners who represent veterans, surviving spouses, and dependents before the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“CAVC”) and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”).
May 9 VA Voting Rights Scandal: VA Flip-Flops, Bans Voter Registration Drives for Veterans at VA Hospitals and Nursing Homes "America has entered a dark day in our history when President George W. Bush's Administration prevents veterans who are patients in a VA hospital from registering and voting behind a false claim of partisan politics," Paul Sullivan said. "There is absolutely nothing partisan about assisting veterans who defended our Constitution with registering to vote."
Steven Rosenfeld AlterNet May 09, 2008
May 8: Pentagon Deployed 43,000 Medically Unfit Soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Gregg Zoroya USA Today May 08, 2008
More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.
Tortured Justification
Michael Washburn The Guardian May 08, 2008
Today US representative John Conyers hosts a hearing on the Bush administration's love affair with torture.
VA Official On Veterans' Attempted Suicides: 'Shh!'
Jacob Goldstein The Wall Street Journal May 08, 2008
The director of mental health at the VA yesterday told the House Veterans Affairs Committee he made a poor choice when he wrote ‘Shh!’ in an email to colleagues discussing veterans’ suicide attempts.
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