Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

March 15, 5008 – Al Hayat:  When Saddam Hussein asked you to meet with him, didn’t you suspect something was getting prepared since he never met with ambassadors?April Glaspie:  He met occasionally with ambassadors; I had met him once before … Continue reading →

April 3, 2008 – Houston, TX — It was an early January morning in 2008 when 42-year-old Lisa Smith*, a paramedic for a defense contractor in southern Iraq, woke up to find her entire room shaking. The shipping container that … Continue reading →

April 3, 2008 – Efforts to improve the machinery that will count the 2008 presidential vote fell prey to a classic Washington compromise on Wednesday, when a House committee approved a bill giving money to both opponents and supporters of … Continue reading →

April 3, 2008 – Hate mail is useful stuff. First, it proves that somebody is paying attention; second, it reveals public prejudices. Recently, the House of Commons voted to extend the military mission in Afghanistan until 2011. This, I said … Continue reading →

April. 3, 2008 – A week before Army Gen. David Petraeus updates Congress on the war in Iraq, two new studies have found that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from especially high rates of post-combat psychological problems, exacerbated … Continue reading →

April 2, 2008 – New York — The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans’ Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said Tuesday. The American … Continue reading →

April 1, 2008 – The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious and seriously underreported problem. One of the few high-profile cases involves a much-admired Army colonel named Ted Westhusing — who, in his 2005 suicide … Continue reading →

April 1, 2008 – Hastings on Hudson, NY — Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force Iraq must be held accountable for systematic violations of international law by US forces in Iraq when he appears before Congress next week, … Continue reading →

April 2, 2008 – In Helmand province the British are supposed to be in charge. In Kandahar it is the Canadians, while in Uruzgan they have the Dutch. The Germans are in the north, the Italians in the west, the … Continue reading →

March 31, 2008 – The stories are shocking in their simplicity and brutality: A female military recruit is pinned down at knifepoint and raped repeatedly in her own barracks. Her attackers hid their faces but she identified them by their … Continue reading →