Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Salt Lake City Mayor Calls for Protest Against Bush Speech to VFW Rocky’s call to protest Bush makes vets see red; Mayor’s e-mail: ‘Nothing radical,’ supporters say By Glen Warchol The Salt Lake TribuneSalt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City Mayor … Continue reading →

On a high-profile and bi-partisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, Senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers and heard from native Inuit … Continue reading →

In two shootings by Iraq vets, war stress blamed By Angie Wagner and Denise Lavoie, Associated Press Writers  |  August 20, 2005 One was a skinny 20-year-old discharged from the Army who couldn’t shake the piercing rat-a-tat-tat reminders of combat. … Continue reading →

SEVEN months into George W. Bush’s second term, it is clear that whatever his expansive second Inaugural Address may have promised, American foreign policy has taken a decidedly pragmatic turn. In practice, the Bush administration has recently begun to pursue … Continue reading →

Homeless vets get heroes’ funeral BY EMILY NGO Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 From the procession of uniformed officers to the solemn rendition of taps, the double funeral Tuesday of U.S. Army veterans Harold Beison Jr. and … Continue reading →

Continued violence claimed the lives of four American soldiers today, the military said. They were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the northern city of Samarra this morning. No other details were made available. Today’s violence follows a deadly … Continue reading →

One month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three State Department bureau chiefs warned of “serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance” in a secret memorandum prepared for a superior. The State Department officials, who had been … Continue reading →