Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Water MAkes US Troops in Iraq Sick

March 12, 2008 – Washington, DC – Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using ”unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, the … Continue reading

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Body Found Sunday is Thought to be Iraq Veteran’s

March 10, 2008 – Deep Creek, FL – DEEP CREEK – A badly decomposed body found Sunday in a culvert in Charlotte County is suspected of being that of missing Iraq war veteran Eric Hall. “Everybody’s kind of concluded that,” … Continue reading

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The Battles Past and Ahead – Pennsylvania National Guard Returns from Iraq War

March 12, 2008 – On a sticky evening last July, Sgt. Allan Dempster cruised through South Philadelphia, his fiancee’s 14-year-old nephew at his side. They were headed to his future mother-in-law’s house to hook up her new DVD player, enjoying … Continue reading

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Body Identified as Former Marine Hall

March 12, 2008 – The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office has notified Eric Hall’s family this morning that the remains found in a culvert Sunday was the former Marine. A detective from the agency notified the family at 10 a.m. and … Continue reading

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Defense, VA Lay Out Plans to Improve Health Care for Wounded Soldiers

March 11, 2008 – Top officials from the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense said on Tuesday that they plan to improve the health care for troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing them with “a life map for … Continue reading

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Report: Thousands of Test Subjects Not Notified About Dangers

March 7, 2008 – Thousands of U.S. citizens who participated in human experimentation for the military may have been exposed to harmful chemical and biological substances. In some cases, healthy adults, psychiatric patients and prison inmates were used in experiments … Continue reading

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Staggering Numbers of Wounded Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

March 8, 2008 – New York – The number of wounded soldiers has become a hallmark of the nearly 5-year-old Iraq war, pointing to both the use of roadside bombs as the extremists’ weapon of choice and advances in battlefield … Continue reading

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Winter Soldier Hearings Set for National Labor College, Maryland, Mar. 13 – Mar. 16

March 10, 2008 – Get ready for the horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven’t heard it before. For four days, from March 13 through March 16, hundreds of U.S. veterans of the … Continue reading

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McCain Flip-Flop: Senator Supports Bush’s Torture Policies

March 9, 2008 – When President Bush vetoed legislation Saturday that would have prohibited the CIA from using physical force in interrogations, he had the support of Sen. John McCain – the most outspoken of any presidential candidate in his … Continue reading

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Baghdad to Bascom: Iraq’s Economic Toll on Wisconsin

March 10, 2008 – According to Wisconsin voters, the war in Iraq is not the top issue on their minds. However, as the nation approaches the five-year anniversary of the war on March 19, Wisconsin officials and political observers have … Continue reading

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