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Of course there are two sides to every story. "Nato's International Security Assistance Force said that there was no direct evidence to substantiate Mr. Wafa's claims that unarmed civilians were harmed in what it described as a 'joint coalition and Afghan security force' operation.

"As the joint assault force entered the village they came under fire from several buildings and in returning fire killed nine individuals," he said.

Just more senseless killing in a war without goals or objectives. The President will propose, in his upcoming budget, spending almost three-quarters of a trillion dollars to feed this war machine even while necessary domestic functions are ignored. Last year's stimulus package was largely swallowed by the states to plug the gaps in their budgets, and the gaps are back again this year but the stimulus is gone.

Yet still the war crowd wants more; never satiated with the blood of innocents they push for another war with Iran. Bolstered with fraudulent and faked data and sad tweets about brutal Iranian dictators and a nuclear boogey man, they will never rest until the bombs fall again. It is they who steal the laurels of heroism from the hands of our service people. They who use them for profit and gain and sell it back to us as pre-packaged patriotism while they use the flag to clean the blood from their hands and the sh*t off their shoes.

"Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks."
(Bob Dylan)


"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race." (Mark Twain)

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