1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.

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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.
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Biden is the Be$t !!!
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There needs to be massive protests to push the Democrats hard on $6 trillion reconciliation including the war weapons budget.
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That would be on Bush!
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Think of our brave defense contractor CEOs
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No. Some people made a decent living out of all that destruction.
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I don’t think OBL is there anymore. Sounds like MW wants endless occupation. What’s your answer MW. Dump another trillion into the quagmire and risk even more American lives?
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Time is not nothing
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Good for President Trump for initiating the removal of our troops.
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Tbf you are measuring against the mission creep goals. The initial operation was to chase down and remove some of the 9/11 peeps. Which was done. Then we overstayed.
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Ask Dick Cheney & Rumsfeld how much money they made off all this ( I know Rumsfeld is dead). Whitewater too. All just to make $$. Cost us so many lives. ☹️😡
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