Morale dips for American marines in Afghanistan

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� ��"I'm not much for this war. I'm not sure it's worth all those lives lost,� �� said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

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