Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

January 6, 2008 – Chaplain Douglas Fenton is quite matter-of-fact as he tells the story of the severed foot. He’d been deployed to Baquba, Iraq. Soldiers handed him a cardboard box containing the foot they had just found, a foot … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Evangelicals are taking over the US military, reports David Belden. And one man’s determined to stop them January 2008 – If you heard it said that America’s military was being taken over by agents of apocalyptic Christianity, you might think … Continue reading →