Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Republican Congress Does an About-Face on Supporting VeteransAmericans seem eager to “support our troops” these days. It says so on the bumper of every other car on the road, anyway. But how our government treats the troops when they come … Continue reading →

Article #1 of 2: Police Officer, U.S. Marine, Killed in Shootout CERES, CALIFORNIA — It started as a seemingly simple and somewhat routine call Sunday night: a man was acting strangely at a liquor store. Moments later, a burst of gunfire … Continue reading →

Liquor store’s video surveillance camera recorded shootout January 11, 2005, Ceres, California — Authorities are trying to understand why a Marine who had spent seven months fighting in Iraq allegedly shot to death a police sergeant in the Central Valley … Continue reading →

HERO HOMELESS Not long ago, Private First Class Herold Noel proudly rumbled through the Iraqi desert with the first wave of American troops. Today, he rambles through the streets of Brooklyn in an SUV looking for a place to sleep. … Continue reading →

Bush May Seek Freeze in Farm, Housing Budgets, Frist Aide Says Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — The Bush administration plans to freeze most spending in programs for agriculture, housing and veterans to help cut the budget deficit in half by 2009, … Continue reading →

Smith replacement signals GOP crackdown on party dissension The replacement of Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., on the House Veterans Affairs Committee signals that Republican leaders and the Bush administration intend to take a hard line on dissension in their ranks … Continue reading →

Grannie, look what we’re doing to the land of freedom The ideals that welcomed my exiled family to the US have been violated My grandmother came to America from eastern Europe in 1911, when she was not quite 13. Her … Continue reading →

Veterans outraged over ousting Smith from committeeBy KATHLEEN CANNON, Burlington County Times http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-01072005-428437.html TRENTON – Burlington County veterans are outraged that House Republicans stripped U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of the chairmanship of the Veterans Affairs Committee. At the behest of GOP … Continue reading →

Oppose the draft? It’s already here While most pollsters would agree that there is almost no discernable support for reinstating the military draft, why should the public support the military’s policy of forcing exhausted those who already have fulfilled their … Continue reading →