Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

March 9, 2008 – Washington, DC — Oops! When Congress and the White House put together the recent bipartisan $150-billion economic stimulus package, they raised the maximum mortgage limits in high-cost areas for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal … Continue reading →

March 12, 2008 – Part 1 of a 3-part series Thousands of American law enforcement officers have been called to military service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and authorities are increasingly focusing attention on how well some of those can reintegrate … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →