Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago. Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who received two Purple … Continue reading →

The Trillion-Dollar War by Linda Bilmes, Harvard University, Saturday, August 20, 2005 The human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →