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...
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They continue to downplay the severity and the real size of the problem.
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People should be paying attention to it, because I think it really could be the tip of the iceberg.
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People don't feel comfortable getting mental health care, necessarily, because they're worried that their friends are going to think they're unstable or they're crazy.
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Now I think the public opinion is starting to change, and people are understanding that the guys who've been in Washington don't seem to have a good handle on it,
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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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I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What do you really know about infantry tactics? 'Have you ever had to walk through bodies?
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I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.
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I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.
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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.