Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Don’t Negotiate Liberties During War

Posted on November 29, 2002 by Team VCS

Race, religion, national origin. Justice for all. Not quite. I hate to be a downer on the day the nation gives thanks. But let’s not fall for the myth that all is swell. Since The Reckoning of Sept. 11, 2001, … Continue reading →

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First Base, First!

Posted on November 28, 2002 by Team VCS

A Pentagon Top Gun opposed to the Iraqi military solution – a member of the growing number of disenchanted military officers who’ve kept their eye on the terrorist ball and still see al-Qaida & Co. as the main event – … Continue reading →

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The U.S. Economic Costs of Gulf War II

Posted on November 27, 2002 by Team VCS

It is Feb. 7, 2003, just after U.S. troops have seized several Iraqi airfields to be used as staging areas. Suddenly, Scud missiles — armed with both chemical and conventional warheads — strike the airfields. Hundreds of Americans die. The … Continue reading →

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Gulf War Veterans Fight a Different Battle

Posted on November 27, 2002 by Team VCS

Mitchell Lambert came back from the Persian Gulf War with lasting souvenirs — rashes, lumps, headaches and seizures. He’s convinced that those symptoms relate to the four months he spent serving his country in the Mideast more than a decade … Continue reading →

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UCLA Students Say “No” to Gulf War II

Posted on November 27, 2002 by Team VCS

The resolution was approved with a 5-0-5 vote. All five Undergraduate Students Association Council members from the Student Empowerment! slate voted in favor of the resolution. The other council members abstained from voting. More than 50 students from various student … Continue reading →

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Exposing Gulf War Media Myths

Posted on November 27, 2002 by Team VCS

Here are a few examples of commonly repeated errors: 1. “But as U.N. weapons inspectors prepare to return to Iraq for the first time since Saddam kicked them out in 1998, the U.S. faces a delicate balancing act: transforming the … Continue reading →

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The Military’s New War of Words

Posted on November 25, 2002 by Team VCS

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. — It was California’s own Hiram Johnson who said, in a speech on the Senate floor in 1917, that “the first casualty, when war comes, is truth.” What would he make of the Bush administration? In a … Continue reading →

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U.S., U.K. Launch Secret Gulf War

Posted on November 25, 2002 by Team VCS

British and American warplanes are attacking Iraq’s air defences almost daily, and making practice runs on other targets. US special forces are reported to be on the ground in western and northern Iraq, and military engineers are preparing and upgrading … Continue reading →

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Bush Ignores CIA Evidence

Posted on November 23, 2002 by Team VCS

President Bush has said he will decide on the basis of “the best intelligence” whether to make war on Iraq. He has gone on record assuring the nation that “we’ve got the best intelligence, thanks to the men and women … Continue reading →

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A Call to Arms by a Gulf War Veteran

Posted on November 22, 2002 by Team VCS

Scott Ritter, the ex-Marine and former U.N. arms inspector, peppered his Veterans Day talk at the University of Maryland with the kinds of questions and challenges that are known to fire up an audience. “The average age of a lance … Continue reading →

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