Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Venezuela President Chavez’s Blockbuster Proposal: Message for Peace for Columbia and Venezuela

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Team VCS

June 16, 2008 – President Hugo Chávez’s statement regarding the increasingly unproductive and ill-focused guerrilla war being staged by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) could be a hugely positive step towards reframing the terms and goals of hemispheric … Continue reading →

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Veterans Programs Get Boost from House Panels

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Team VCS

June 13, 2008 – Two House panels on Thursday approved remarkably generous spending bills for the upcoming budget year, awarding veterans programs with record increases and restoring proposed cuts to local law enforcement subsidies. Veterans programs would receive a 12 … Continue reading →

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Mental Health and the Military Mindset

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Team VCS

June 15, 2008, Bellmore, NY – Kristofer Goldsmith was so distressed about the prospect of returning to Iraq that he decided he was willing to kill himself to avoid serving a second tour. The Army had mandated an extension of … Continue reading →

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New Military Video Offers Mental Health Advice

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Team VCS

June 5, 2008, Wellesley Hills, MA – In honor of Mental Health Month, the Department of Defense is launching a new educational video depicting how service members and their families may be affected by combat and deployment stress. “A Different … Continue reading →

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June 15, VCS in the News: Dead Marine’s Family Says Iraq War Veteran with PTSD Did Not Get Proper Care

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Team VCS

Chad Oligschlaeger was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder when he was found in barracks, parents say.  “There’s more help available,” said Paul Sullivan, the executive director of the advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense. “But it’s got to get a … Continue reading →

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Jewish General to Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Team VCS

June 12, 2008 – When he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in the early 1970s, Norton Schwartz did not hide his religion under his blue-and-white uniform. A member of the academy’s Jewish choir … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Mental Wounds Said to Raise War Casualties Tenfold

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Team VCS

June 13, 2008 – Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, charged Bush administration officials Wednesday with continuing to downplay the mental trauma and brain injuries suffered by veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Filner … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: The Iraq War Becomes Suicidal

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Team VCS

June 12, 2008 – I gave a dollar to a shabbily dressed young man holding a “help me” sign on a Market Street in San Francisco. Most Saturday shoppers, many of them foreign tourists taking advantage of the cheap dollar, … Continue reading →

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Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output to Highest Ever

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Team VCS

June 14, 2008 – Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to analysts and oil traders who have been briefed by Saudi officials. The … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: A Victory for the Rule of the Law

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Team VCS

June 13, 2008 – It shouldn’t be necessary for the Supreme Court to tell the president that he can’t have people taken into custody, spirited to a remote prison camp and held indefinitely, with no legal right to argue that … Continue reading →

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