Whether the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion was faulty or fabricated continues to be debated. Although no evidence of an active Weapons of Mass Destruction program was ever found in Iraq after the invasion; just old, rusting, unusable chemical munitions left over from the Iran-Iraq War decades earlier, some people continue to believe …
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Climate Change a National Security Threat
According to Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the Pacific Theater, significant upheaval caused by the warming planet “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment…”.
The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review speaks directly to the impact of climate change on national security:
Climate change …
climate changeFLVCS President’s Veterans’ Day Talk 2014
Florida Veterans for Common Sense President, Gene Jones, made the following comments at the Veterans’ Day ceremonies in New Port Richey, Florida.
Thank you for gathering here today to celebrate our veterans. Thank you for walking with us and standing beside us. Every one of us who wore the uniform of our great country appreciates …
Rhana is well on the way to Tallahassee
Rhana (right) with FLVCS member Alan Toy and another supporter
We are proud to say that Rhana Bazzini, who walks in Granny D’s footsteps http://ingrannydfootsteps.org/ , is well on the way to Tallahassee from Sarasota. She is now in Pasco County and walking to obtain a constitutional amendment to overturn the horrendous Supreme …
Rhana BazziniCongress Fails to Support the Troops
Politicians are eager to send our compatriots to war, but refuse to pay the cost to care for them on their return home. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/va-reform-congress_n_5619025.html
Congress does not have the excuse that the money is not available to adequately fund VA because the politicians always find plenty of money to fund more war in Iraq, Afghanistan,
… Congress refuses to adequately fund VA, National Defense, Pentagon waste
Climate Change: a National Security Threat
On Sunday, July 20, 2014, FLVCS had the honor to present at a Forum sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church in Sarasota. The topic was Climate Change as a National Security Threat.
Since 2007, FLVCS has recognized along with DoD that climate change is a national security threat.
FLVCS accepts the scientific consensus that climate
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Resolution to Amend Constitution to Abolish Corporate Personhood
Resolution by Florida Veterans for Common Sense, Inc.
to Amend the United States Constitution
A Florida Veterans for Common Sense, Inc. Resolution urging Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s egregious decision granting corporations personhood.
WHEREAS, the states adopted and ratified the United States Constitution to protect …
FLVCS Respondes to Call for Military Intervention in Syria and Iraq
We are proud that Florida Veterans for Common Sense formed in opposition to the Iraq invasion.
How times change. When we first spoke out, we were one of the few veterans groups to do so. Now, almost everybody believes the Iraq invasion was mistake, others believe it was a blunder of historical proportions and that
George W. Bush to Speak in Sarasota, Florida
Florida Veterans for Commons Sense
Press Release
*For Immediate Release*
January 7, 2014
Contact: Gene Jones
President, Florida Veterans for Common Sense, Inc.
Phone: 941- 349-5131
As Iraq Sinks into More Bloodshed, Bush Speaks
Veterans Question Bush’s War as Terrorists Capture Major Portion of Iraq
January 7, 2014 – Former President George …
Florida, George W. Bush to Speak in Sarasota