Repost: VCS Letter to President Bush dated March 10, 2003

Several veteran supporters asked us to repost our letter signed by 1,000 veterans to President Bush before he started his unilateral and pre-emptive war against Iraq. The facts are now clear: Iraq had no WMD. Iraq had no link to 9/11. Urban warfare causes high casualties among U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. And now Iraq is on the brink of civil war and a grave humanitarian crisis. In addition, U.S. credibility is nearly destroyed, and U.S. soldiers are standing trial for the widespread torturing of enemy prisoners of war based on official White House policy.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2672

Why aren't our TV companies and newspapers running fundraisers to help Iraqis whose lives have been wrecked by the invasion? Why aren't they screaming with outrage at the man-made tsunami that we have created in the Middle East? It truly is baffling.

http://207.44.245.159/article7663.htm

http://www.truthout.org/fyi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814588/

Robert D. Novak: Arrogance grows among GOP leaders

“WE ARE looking more and more like the Democrats we replaced,” a House committee chairman told me Wednesday. That comment came before he learned, to his surprise and sorrow, that the House Republican leadership had removed Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey as chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. The extraordinary purge buttressed the growing impression of arrogance as Republicans enter their second decade of power in the House.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2652

Why does healthcare for troops and veterans face the Republican budget axe in a time of war? Martin Kelly writes, "The corporate culture of outsourcing that very possibly led to Abu Ghraib is still alive and well in the Pentagon. It’s their addiction." Now the government is outsourcing medical care for medical conditions related to combat duty.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2659

Here's the bottom line, according to Paul Vitello: "If you don't follow the intricacies of Washington politics, then you might want to know how the House Republican leadership felt about Rep. Smith's willingness to take a stand for our veterans. They didn't like it much." The GOP fired Smith because he fought for more healthcare funding for veterans.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2657

Congress tells us they support the troops. It's time to hold them to their words.

At a time when Iraq War veterans are coming home to find the rug yanked out from under them, with months long waits to see doctors for serious injuries, we won't stand for cuts to the VA in order to pay for tax-cuts and no-bid contracts. Write your Congressman today.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2656

The assembly line of carnage in George W. Bush's war in Iraq continues unabated. Nightmares don't last this long, so the death and destruction must be real. You know you're in serious trouble when the politicians and the military brass don't even bother suggesting that there's light at the end of the tunnel. The only thing ahead is a deep and murderous darkness.

http://207.44.245.159/article7650.htm