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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110111:15:23:00

And have been for months and months and months in iraq and afghanistan? so now that s one good sign, right, that they are going to be able to have actually it s not been wiped out yet? i thought it was. the combat exclusion policy is still in effect. it s under review currently. okay. but i think it s going to take some time for that to be overturned or revised. but what we have seen is the v.a. has shifted its regulations when it comes to benefits for combat veterans who are not part of these combat arms units. so that the initial stressor that caused your ptsd in combat is easier to prove for your average veteran who s returning home with ptsd. does that include women? and that service-connected claim. it does include women. the problem in the past has been that v.a. used to depend on combat awards, combat action badges, infantry badges, so on and so forth. that s changed.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100901:04:16:00

I don t like the idea that he says combat operations are over. we re still giving out combat action badges, we re still going to award combat infantry badges. our troops are getting hazardous i didn t did not like the fact it was highly a political speech. he didn t tell us a whole lot new. i think it s great he s sticking to the agreement. we need to get the troops out of iraq and i hope he sticks to that plan. larry: pete, good point? larry, for once i agree with jon on the first point. it s important we emphasize the first of all time that we emphasize that the combat mission isn t over. he s right. we have combat brigades that have become advise and assist brigades doing similar missions as before. we still have about 5,000 special operators taking the fight to insurgent cells. this is not over even though i believe we have won the war in the sense of the surge and dampening down the violence we still have to win the peace and winning the peace will require both a militar