Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

March 19, 2008 – On his “Gee, don’t I look like a Commander-in-Chief” tour in Iraq, presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain said something that made him look anything but. He showed that he’s either a liar, or woefully misinformed, … Continue reading →

March 20, 2008 – Mobile, AL — The Department of Veterans Affairs has reversed earlier rulings and granted a rare disability claim by an Eight Mile veteran who says he suffered long-term emotional problems after being waterboarded during a Navy … Continue reading →

March 20, 2008 – Detroit, MI — The billboard displays a phone number and only two English words: “Call Mona.” The rest is in Arabic. But if you can read it, the Army wants you. The sign, erected to help … Continue reading →

March 20, 2008 — The American people have, once again, fallen asleep at the switch and their snores make me sick. According to recent polls, almost half of the public now thinks that things are going well in Iraq. This … Continue reading →

March 18, 2008 – Washington, DC — Scott Gration grew up in Congo as the son of U.S. missionaries in the 1950s, fled to Kenya as a war refugee in 1964 and lived on half a glass of water a … Continue reading →

March 17, 2008 – It’s been determined that taxi drivers have the most dangerous job in Iraq, and if the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier event this past weekend had taken place in Baghdad, my taxi driver might … Continue reading →

March 18, 2008 – Nearly five years into a war that might drag on for decades, Vice President Dick Cheney visited Iraq and declared, “If you look back on those five years, it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless … Continue reading →

March 18, 2008 – Though it’s a few miles outside his congressional district, Rep. Bob Filner stopped by San Diego’s temporary homeless shelter on March 7, located this year in a Petco Park parking lot, and gave something of an … Continue reading →

March 18, 2008 – Karen Kwiatkowski spent two decades as a career military officer in the United States Air Force before being assigned in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s … Continue reading →

March 19, 2008 – Washington, DC — Today marks the fifth anniversary of the day President Bush announced from the Oval Office the “opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign” to invade Iraq. On that day, … Continue reading →