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Sen. McCain: Which Veterans' Benefits Should We Cut?

Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq PTSD, John McCain, Ptsd, Mccain Veterans, Walter Reed, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mccain Veterans Benefits, Politics News
Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.)

Thousands of soldiers are coming home with PTSD as a result of living for extended periods in a combat zone. Is Senator McCain suggesting that we can't afford to give them benefits?

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, Donald Rumsfeld, Pepper Spray, Traffic Pollution, VA Chantix, Dick Cheney, Shell Oil, Iraq War Veteran, Childhood Allergies, Peak Oil, Democratic National Convention Denver, Blackwater Iraq, Clean Technology, Ptsd, No-Bid Contracts, Global Warming, Sharia, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

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One Enlists, One Graduates

Mona Gable | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Iraq War, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Military, Rand Study, National Institute of Mental Health, Recruiters, Military Recruiting, Ptsd, Politics News
Mona Gable

My son's friend enlisted in the Army because he was lost. He joined because in an economy with few good-paying jobs and little opportunity, it was the best future he could envision for himself.

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PTSD: Bush's Ticking Time Bomb

Paul Peete | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq PTSD, Iraq War, Iraq, Ptsd, President Bush, Offthebus, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Morris Twiggs Ptsd, Shannan Marcak, Kellee Twiggs, Marcak Twiggs, Twiggs White Hoiuse, Twiggs Bush, Twiggs Ptsd, Cody Alexander Morris, Travis N. Twiggs, Home News
Paul Peete

"He approached Bush and gave him a big hug, said he'd serve again anytime," says Sergeant Twiggs's widow. Had Sergeant Twiggs snapped then instead of later, Dick Cheney would be president now.

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Wartime PTSD cases jumped roughly 50 pct. in 2007

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Ptsd, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, US Soldiers, Iraq War, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildu...

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Shocker: As Suicides Surge, Military Reveals 40,000 Cases of PTSD

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suicides, Troops, Vets, War, War Wire, Iraq, V.A., Ptsd, Veterans, Post Tramatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

As press reports proliferate concerning Iraq vet suicides, officials are encouraging troops to get help, even if they go to civilian therapists and don't report it to the military.

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Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths

ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Iraq Veteran Suicide, War in Iraq, Iraq Suicides, Iraq PTSD, Ptsd, Politics News

At the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda,...

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Ashcroft Assailed By Protesters, Backpedals On Waterboarding

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, John Ashcroft Waterboarding, John Ashcroft, Ptsd, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Anxiety, Breaking Politics News, Depression, Politics News

Last night, John Ashcroft delivered an address on the Cornell University campus "in the face of shouting dissenters and shrouded protesters." At his l...

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John Ashcroft: I'm Willing To Be Waterboarded

Think Progress | Faiz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, John Ashcroft Waterboarding, Ptsd, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Anxiety, Breaking Politics News, John Ashcroft, Depression, Politics News

Last night, former Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered an address on national security at the University of Colorado. The event was marked by hea...

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