Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Horrific images of Iraqi civilians reportedly killed by the coalition bombing of Basra were being shown on the Arabic news station al-Jazeera yesterday. Several Arab media outlets described the civilian deaths there as a “massacre”. Al-Jazeera’s footage included an Iraqi … Continue reading →

Last September 24th, as Congress prepared to vote on the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq, a group of senior intelligence officials, including George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence, briefed the Senate Foreign Relations … Continue reading →

If the only thing we still have to fear is fear itself, there is more than enough to go around. When President Roosevelt coined the phrase in his inaugural address in 1933, he used it to banish fear and steel … Continue reading →

Up to nine dead Marines. A dozen soldiers in an Army convoy attacked and missing, some looking glum and scared in Iraqi custody while comrades lay dead nearby. Uncounted wounded on multiple, acrid battlefields. Then the self-inflicted harm: a British … Continue reading →

New York – We are at war again — not because of enemy attack, as in World War II, nor because of incremental drift, as in the Vietnam War — but because of the deliberate and premeditated choice of our … Continue reading →

TEACH-IN on the IRAQ WAR Join VETERANS, SCHOLARS, and ACTIVISTS in discussing the causes, implications, and potential consequences of the U.S. War against Iraq–a war that may not only change the face of the Middle East but the geopolitics and … Continue reading →

Statement of Charles Sheehan-Miles Executive Director, Nuclear Policy Research Institute and Spokesman for Veterans for Common Sense Good Afternoon. My name is Charles Sheehan-Miles. I am a Gulf War veteran, Executive Director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, and I … Continue reading →

Hot Springs, South Dakota — Not all local opponents of the war against Iraq were publicly protesting on Thursday. “I support most of those people who do that — we need them — but I’m uncomfortable with it myself,” Hot … Continue reading →

Herald Correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, travelling with a Marines artillery unit, reports on one of the war’s first battles on the Iraq-Kuwait border. There was little initial resistance as the United States Marines swept into southern Iraq early yesterday. One of … Continue reading →

The crash of the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter killed 12 U.S. and 4 British soldiers, officials said. U.S. military officials said they did not have further details about the crash. Military officials said they did not know if the helicopter … Continue reading →