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He sure as hell, is right.
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<div class="">Posting to FB, a lot of Europeans, Asians, and Middle Eastern folks, the ones still alive, like to know that not all Americans are concerned with entertainment such as the electoral debates, and do not support US wars of aggression.
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<div class="">On Aug 4, 2019, at 11:13, David Green <<a href="mailto:davidgreen50@gmail.com" class="">davidgreen50@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">If you have teenagers romping around your house, most of them have never known a day when the United States was not at war in Afghanistan. Think about that.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">This war was allegedly waged in response to the 9/11 attacks of 2001, even though 14 of the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. The initial target of that effort, Osama bin Laden,
is long since dead.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Recently, I read that 400 Illinois National Guard troops are being deployed to Afghanistan. This war has already consumed the lives of more than 2,300 U.S. service personnel and more
than 1,700 U.S. contractors. It has resulted in more than 20,000 U.S. troop injuries and has cost over a trillion dollars.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Hundreds of thousands of Afghan citizens have been killed, wounded or displaced. Their country is in rubble.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Meanwhile, should a natural disaster occur here, Illinois National</span><span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> Guard service people will be depleted
by their numbers sent to Afghanistan and other countries.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">We have normalized</span><span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> American wars of aggression around the world, despite polls that show that most
Americans are sick of it. Yet the political class continues them, feeding at the trough of the war profiteers whom they serve.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">And so we are still in Afghanistan, “where empires go to die.” From my point of view, we ought to hold to account all public figures who have been a party to this abomination, from
Congress to the White </span><span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">House.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">JOSEPH BAUERS Champaign <br class="">
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