Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Here is an event I have no intention of honoring: American Religious History Week. OK, it’s not official yet. But it is spelled out as Resolution 888 in the bowels of a House committee, sponsored by Republican Congressman Randy Forbes … Continue reading →

January 10, 2008 – Denton County [Texas] veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will benefit from a half-million dollars granted to two agencies to provide mental health assistance for the them and their families in “Operation Healthy Reunion.” Mental Health America … Continue reading →

Of 750,000 veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, the suit says, at least 15{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} suffer from PTSD, an emotional illness characterized by nightmares, memory loss and irritability. The VA’s failure to provide treatment — only 27 of the nation’s … Continue reading →

January 12, 2008 – The recent killing of two U.S. soldiers by their Iraqi colleague has raised disturbing questions about U.S. military relations with the Iraqis they work with. On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. soldiers … Continue reading →

January 11, 2008 – Veterans’ advocates can proceed with a lawsuit claiming that the federal government’s health care system for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan illegally denies care and benefits, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday. U.S. … Continue reading →

January 7, 2008 – About six months before the United States invaded Iraq, then-White House economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey famously estimated that the war would cost between $100 billion and $200 billion. The prediction ended up being way too … Continue reading →

January 9, 2008 – A federal magistrate has ordered the White House to reveal whether copies of missing e-mail messages written from 2003 to 2005 during an investigation into the disclosure of the name of a C.I.A. operative are stored … Continue reading →

January 7, 2008 Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m. Local 2 Investigates looks into veterans waiting for needed help. Last … Continue reading →

January 9, 2008 Editor’s Note: Tens of thousands of members of the National Guard and reserves who are called up to serve in Iraq return home to find their civilian jobs gone and face unsympathetic employers. When reservist U.S. Army … Continue reading →

We’ll nuke Iran – Bush promises Israel Thu, 01/10/2008 – 16:08 – Wire Services – US President George W. Bush promised Israel’s opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against … Continue reading →