Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

VCS Note: Army Colonel Peter E. Brownback III, the judge in the prosecution of an enemy prisoner of war, forgot to read his Constitution that protects everyone’s freedom by allowing everyone suspected of a crime to confront the witnesses against them, … Continue reading →

November 29, 2007 – Cincinnati, Ohio – More women are part of the U.S. military and seeing combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some return with the same psychological problems their male counterparts faced for years, post traumatic stress disorder. Local … Continue reading →

November 27, 2007 – Every Saturday, the president of the United States gives a radio address to the nation. It is followed by the Democratic response, usually given by a senator or representative. This past Saturday the Democrats chose retired … Continue reading →

November 27, 2007 Editor’s Note from Brian Ross: In the third year of a joint project with the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation, six leading graduate school journalism students were again selected to spend the summer working with the ABC News investigative … Continue reading →

November 28, 2007 – In a sense, the first chapter of James Sperry’s return home for good is set to begin this afternoon. That’s when Sperry, 22, plans to drive south from his parents’ west Belleville house to the Jefferson … Continue reading →

November 25, 2007 – It was 9.30am when three men entered Haidar Musa’s sweet-shop and shot him repeatedly in the head as his eight-year-old daughter Zainab crouched in terror behind the counter. By midday his stricken wife Kahiriya had packed … Continue reading →

After reading a number of e-mails and digesting their comments, I think I’d like to share my view of the Department of Veteran Affairs with you. The National Cemetery Administration is the worst organization to deal with. Plain and simple, … Continue reading →

November 27, 2007 – The Bush administration formally committed America yesterday to a long-term military presence in Iraq, pledging to protect the government in Baghdad from internal coup plots and foreign enemies. The cooperation pact, endorsed by George Bush and … Continue reading →

November 26, 2007 – When a soldier loses a limb as a result of a roadside bomb, one such case was reported as having been classified by the Department of Veterans Affairs as “not” service-connected, thereby minimizing his sacrifice and … Continue reading →

November 27, 2007 – The Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to one day harness the power of technology to speed the processing of veterans’ benefits claims, but it is wary of ideas for quickly reducing the claims backlog, which is … Continue reading →