Diane Rehm Show - Soldiers and Mental Trauma

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10:00Soldiers and Mental Trauma

A growing number of soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental issues related to combat stress. Two Washington Post reporters discuss the challenges some of these men and women face getting help.
Guests

Anne Hull, reporter, "The Washington Post"

Dana Priest, intelligence correspondent for "The Washington Post" and author of "The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military"

Col Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, PSYCHIATRY CONSULTANT TO THE US ARMY SURGEON GENERAL

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Diane is on a roll. yesterday was about kbr ripping us off.


www.wamu.org

[Gabi Hayes]

1. I heard that segment yesterday: "Betraying Our Troops" was the

book

the media are COMPLETELY ignoring that author and her book.

Dina Rasor: "Betraying Our Troops" (Palgrave)
An investigative journalist and former criminal investigator with the Defense Department examine the role private contractors are playing in the Iraq war.

one of the most profoundly disturbing things I've heard in awhile, and that's saying something

the guest said, at one point: If this sort of thing had happened during WWII, and a PRIVATE COMPANY had refused to serve the troops the way they're doing now, Gen. Patton would have stuck his pistol in some guy's nose and deMANDED he get on the stick, or else shot it off.

she said something very close to that, then went on how sad it is that NOT ONE general has EVER come forward to decry what the PRIVATE CONTRACTORS are doing to destroy our military {with the ACTIVE support of the current regime...my words here)


http://www.followthemoneyproject.org/id9.html

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2. email sent to one of the guests

i think it was sent to dana priest. woman told her about son or husband (sorry i don't recall which)

and he couldn't sleep but now is able to sleep if he has a plastic rifle with him.

[KoKo]

3. Her show is Great...and folks can listen later by going to archives on the site! n/t