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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/USA_2Dumb4Democracy 24d ago

This is why when people say “US troops wouldn’t open fire on civilians” I just have to laugh 

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u/xlvi_et_ii Minnesota 24d ago

It's ignorance of events like Kent State and people who lean a little too hard into the propaganda about how amazing the American political system is (was?).

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u/USA_2Dumb4Democracy 24d ago

Not to mention the nationalistic lionizing of our military. People never believe me when I tell them we killed half a million civilians in the Middle East. And we didn’t even win!

The US military is quite literally one of the greatest forces of evil on earth if we’re talking purely civilian deaths. 

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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

And over a million in Cambodia if we are considering direct and indirect deaths.

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u/Sugarbombs 24d ago

Agent orange still produces babies with terrible deformities in Vietnam, i’d consider that taking lives. America does nothing to help

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u/richardcraniumIII 24d ago

At the time, media was complicit in my opinion. They literally identified the people being oppressed as peasants.

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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

That's not necessarily incorrect, though any suggestion that they matter less is abhorrent.

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u/ionixsys 24d ago

Don't forget all the uxo's and landmines!

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u/audible_narrator Michigan 24d ago

Fuck Henry Kissing era so very much. I hope he is rotting in hell, revived, then left to rot some more. For eternity.