Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff is an American writer, social entrepreneur, advocate, activist and veteran of the United States Army and the Iraq War. He is the Founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He served as an Army First Lieutenant and infantry rifle platoon leader in Iraq from 2003 through 2004. Rieckhoff was released from the Army National Guard in 2007...
push seek
Everything's on the vet. It's on you to come forward, you to push the paper, you to seek the treatment.
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I don't think the Army is wrong by doing this, because the Army has to ensure some level of quality.
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The bottom line is that Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department are failing soldiers again.
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They continue to downplay the severity and the real size of the problem.
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The study confirms what we've heard from our members for the last two years -- that mental health issues and (post-traumatic stress disorder) are among the No. 1 issues facing Iraq veterans.
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policy that brings in the rest of the world and relieves their burden.
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men and women of extraordinary courage and incredible capability. But it's time we had leadership in Washington to match that courage and match that capability.
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I don't expect an easy solution to the situation in Iraq. I do expect an admission that there are serious problems that need serious solutions. I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.
attention paying people tip
People should be paying attention to it, because I think it really could be the tip of the iceberg.
help iraq iraqi secure
to secure Iraq and help the Iraqi people.
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We saw firsthand the terrible suffering that they had endured. We protected a hospital and kept a school safe from sniper fire. We saw hope in the faces of Iraqi children who may have the chance to grow up as free as our own.
military thinking two
What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most of all the political issues, because the political failure in Iraq right now is almost worse than the military failure. And the two are intertwined.
football war guy
I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.
mistake leader
I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.