Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

New VA Advisory Panel to Improve Services for Returning Combat Veterans

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Team VCS

NEWS RELEASE  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 8, 2007 New VA Advisory Panel to Improve Services for Returning Combat Veterans WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson today announced the formation of a formal, 17-person committee that will advise him on … Continue reading →

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VA Benefits System for PTSD Victims is Criticized

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Team VCS

The government’s methods for deciding compensation for emotionally disturbed veterans have little basis in science, are applied unevenly and may even create disincentives for veterans to get better, an influential scientific advisory group said yesterday. The critique by the Institute … Continue reading →

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VCS Weekly Update: 60,000 U.S. Casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Team VCS

May 8, 2007 Dear VCS Supporters:  This week’s update talks about the human cost of war for America. Television reports and Congressional hearings often report the number of casualties from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as 20,000. That is wrong. … Continue reading →

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Are Iraq War Costs Spinning Out of Control?

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Team VCS

The tab is $423 billion and rising, prompting economists to reassess US military and homeland security costs. The invasion of Iraq was launched four years ago with a “shock and awe” display of American military might. As bombs fell, Baghdad’s … Continue reading →

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Doctors Urge Better Pain Care for Troops

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON (AP) – They call it the coming tsunami, veterans returning from Iraq who will suffer chronic pain years from now. Get ready, military doctors are warning pain specialists, even as they hope that slowly improving battlefield pain control may … Continue reading →

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The Cost of War, Unnoticed

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Team VCS

Why Iraq and Afghanistan Haven’t Squeezed the Average American’s Wallet The global war on terror, as President Bush calls the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and related military operations, is about to become the second-most-expensive conflict in U.S. history, after … Continue reading →

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Editorial – The Fear Industry

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Team VCS

May 6, 2007 – George Tenet made patently ridiculous claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, while serving as CIA director, and was eventually fired. Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made patently ridiculous claims about WMD in … Continue reading →

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Iraq War Veteran Gets Help Renovating Home

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Team VCS

May 7, 2007 – Reyno, AR — Vietnam Veteran Robert Reed, with help from friends, community members, and fellow soldiers spent the weekend lending a helping hand. “We got word that there was an Iraqi vet that needed some help … Continue reading →

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Suicide Attacks and Gunfight in Afghanistan Kill 10 Police Officers

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Team VCS

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 5 — A wave of suicide attacks in four provinces of Afghanistan on Saturday killed two police officers and wounded a NATO soldier and two other Afghan policemen, and eight other Afghan police officers were killed in … Continue reading →

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Propaganda Fear Cited in Account of Iraqi Killings

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Team VCS

Recently unclassified documents suggest that senior officers viewed the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in late 2005 as a potential public relations problem that could fuel insurgent propaganda against the American military, leading investigators to question whether the … Continue reading →

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