Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Although it’s too early to tell whether they will become a potent political force, activists have persuaded 43 city councils to adopt anti-war resolutions, paid for a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal, circulated petitions via the Internet and … Continue reading →

That’s the contention of a new Duke University study, published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, that showed the chemicals caused extensive cell degeneration and cell death in the testes of laboratory rats. Rats given the chemicals and … Continue reading →

January 14, 2003 Edward Hamm does not like George Bush’s war mongering, not one bit. Attacking Iraq at this junction is not just, Hamm says. War is not inevitable, he argues, and now is the time to stop it. Ed … Continue reading →

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this pre-war period is that despite intelligence dossiers, parliamentary speeches and months of disingenuous government propaganda portraying Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to life on earth, only 37{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} of Australians support an illegal, … Continue reading →

Anti-war statements have been passed in other, smaller cities, including San Francisco; Seattle; Ithaca, New York, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Chicago, the third largest U.S. city after New York and Los Angeles, has 2.9 million people. Military action against Iraq would … Continue reading →

Imagine if Ronald Reagan had announced in 1985 that we were going back to Vietnam, and this time we were going to take out those commies. That’s how surreal the whole discussion of invading Iraq is, because we have just … Continue reading →

January 15, 2003 National Press Club, Washington, DC Contact: Erik Gustafson egustafson@igc.org Families of Current Service Members and Gulf War Veterans Question U.S. Military Build-Up in the Gulf I. OPENING STATEMENT by Erik Gustafson Good Morning. My name is Erik … Continue reading →

The groups, Veterans for Common Sense and Military Families Speak Out, are part of a small but vocal anti-war movement that has arisen in recent months as Bush orders hundreds of thousands of troops to the Middle East in preparation … Continue reading →

Last week, a once-notorious Iraqi site made news again. Seeking evidence of biological weapons production, United Nations arms inspectors swooped into the closed industrial facility at Abu Ghreib, outside Baghdad — the same plant that U.S. forces bombed on Jan. … Continue reading →

Students Protest War Plans Washington, DC, 6:27 p.m. EST January 14, 2003 Student protestors took an anti-war message to a busy intersection in northwest Washington Tuesday. The protest started when dozens of students gathered outside of Wilson High School in … Continue reading →