Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

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 →

Leak Disputes Government’s Allegations into Killing of Innocent Subway Rider in London Leak disputes Menezes death story; Leaked documents appear to contradict the official account of how police mistook a Brazilian man for a suicide bomber and shot him. The … Continue reading →

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS so far fended off Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother demanding to know the “noble purpose” of her son’s death in Iraq. However, Bush has been forced to address the existence of the antiwar constituency for perhaps the … Continue reading →

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has set up a vigil near President Bush’s ranch, said Tuesday that she was “very disturbed” that a local resident had mowed down hundreds of small crosses bearing the … Continue reading →

It looks increasingly as if President Bush may have been off by 74 years in his assessment of Iraq. By deposing the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Bush assumed he would bring Iraq to its 1787 moment — the crafting of … Continue reading →

Gunning for College By Beth Shulman, TomPaine.com, August 13, 2005 What should you have to sacrifice to get a college education in the United States? Isn’t it hard enough to get good grades and high SAT scores? Should you have … Continue reading →

The failure to draft a new Iraqi constitution by yesterday’s deadline represents another blow to President Bush’s attempts to show progress that would pave the way for U.S. troop withdrawals, some analysts said yesterday, but U.S. officials called it a … Continue reading →