Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:04 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.vaiw.org/vet/images/logo.gif http://www.vaiw.org/vet/ tcochran@WashtenawWeb.com http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3262 "Military resister’s father calls him ’a hero’." By Dee Knight Workers World, July 27, 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:04 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3261 "Report says cost of Iraq war is approaching the amount spent on Vietnam War." By Christine Simmons Associated Press News, July 25, 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:35:58 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3260 "With His Blog Kaboom, a young soldier told of his war. Last month, the Army made him shut it down." By Ernesto Londońo Washington Post, July 24, 2008 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:49:20 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3259 "The military surge into Iraq that began more than 18 months ago has ended. But 150,000 U.S. troops remain, as many as 15,000 more than before the buildup began." By Lolita C. Baldor Capitol Hill Blue, July 16, 2008 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:46:26 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3258 "The campaign will kick off Saturday, July 12 at the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago, and the group plans to end their walk Sept. 1, the same day the Republican Party begins its convention in Minnesota's state capital." By Meg White BuzzFlash, July 11, 2008 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:34:06 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3257 "The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change. In 2002, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two and three among Department of Defense (DoD) contractors, taking in US$17 billion, $16.6 billion and $8.7 billion." By Nick Turse Asia Times, June 26, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:59:42 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3256 "His father, Earl Haun of Crestview, Fla., suggested there's a screw loose already -- with any Army policy that allows redeployment of soldiers obviously not fit for duty." By Tom Philpott Hanford Sentinel, June 20, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:51:12 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3255 "It is a long road from 1969, when to protest the Vietnam War he sang John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" at the foot of the Washington Monument." By Dennis Gaffney New York Times, June 22, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:41:41 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3254 "Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network." By Brian Stelter New York Times, June 23, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:37:59 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3253 "I've written and sent the following email to Dick Cheney's office and I expect him to try and do something about it." By John Merle Conley Jr. June 25, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:34:43 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3252 "Yes, bases have replaced taxes as one of life's two certainties. For plenty of corporations and even privileged individuals in the United States and elsewhere, taxes are no more." By David Swanson Democratic Underground, June 15, 2008 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:08:54 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3251 "President tells UK to avoid rushing into troop withdrawals." By The Guardian June 15, 2008 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:17:05 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3250 "But most Americans don't understand what is going on right now, urgently and secretly, in Baghdad and Washington. Nor do they realize it may be part of a grand plan, hatched by the same conservative group that brought about the war on Iraq in the first place." By Neil Macdonald CBC News, June 11, 2008 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:59:41 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3249 "Mr. Ryan said about half the calls to the hot line — 1-800-273-TALK (8255) — were from veterans, split fairly evenly between Vietnam and Iraq. By Patricia Cohen New York Times, April 22, 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:15:11 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3248 "All British forces are set to be pulled out of Iraq within a year, it emerged today." By This is London June 10, 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:51:30 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3247 "Five years and three months after the coalition invasion began, Australia's combat role in Iraq is over." By Misha Schubert The Age, June 2, 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:48:59 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3246 "Polish forces will be out of Iraq by the middle of October, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich confirmed in a radio interview Saturday." By Associated Foreign Press June 8, 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:46:09 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3245 "A letter written to the American Legion by an Afghanistan soldier suffering from VA mistreatment." By Sandra Hale VAIW, June 8, 2008 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:28:38 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3244 " clear change of strategy to energise public anti-war sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall." By Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service, June 3, 2008 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:41:46 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3243 "The Opposition parties in the House of Commons joined together today to adopt a recommendation which, if implemented, would make it possible for U.S. Iraq War resisters to obtain Permanent Resident status in Canada." By Newswire June 3, 2008 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:35:23 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3242 "This just in via the 6/6/08 news: Bush & Cheney overstated the evidence leading to Iraq War. Wow..." By Igor Bobrowsky VAIW, June 6, 2008 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:27:39 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3241 "This is a real complaint that really happened at the VA hospital disability and compensation examination." By Sandra Hale VAIW, June 5, 2008 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:21:58 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3240 "With a few keystrokes, each of the 58,000-plus names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is searchable and linked to that person’s service records and casualty report, thanks to the National Archives and the online company Footnote.com." By Emily Brown Stars and Stripes, March 26, 2008 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:10:43 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3239 "Holidays like Memorial Day allow us to appreciate the sacrifices made for all of us -- and the problems that we carry with us when we don't protect what others have died to preserve." Huntington News May 26, 2008 Tue, 27 May 2008 09:29:41 -0400 http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3238 "Many soldiers who have gone AWOL have chosen to return to Iraq rather than face a long stint in a military prison. Others, like Burmeister, say they are simply not psychologically able to return to a war zone." By Camilla Mortensen Eugene Weekly, May 22, 2008 Tue, 27 May 2008 08:59:58 -0400