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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't tread on anyone. 

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And the libertarian Institute. 
This is were the wars wise. 

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Were they worth it by former 
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Nixon speechwriter, Patrick, J, 
Buchanan in talkies magazine 

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through the long Memorial Day 
Weekend, anyone who read the 

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newspapers or watch television, 
could not miss or be unmoved by 

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it story. 
After story, after story of the 

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Fallen of those who had given 
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Devotion to their Troy 
heart-rending is an apt 

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description of those stories and
Searing are the videos of those 

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who survived and returned home 
without arms or legs. 

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But the stories could not help. 
But bring questions to mind. 

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While the sacrifice and service 
were always honorable and often 

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heroic never-to-be-forgotten 
were the wars, these soldiers 

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were sent to fight and die. 
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what became of the causes for? 
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sent to fight in the new century
with thousands to die in tens of

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thousands to come home with 
permanent wounds and what became

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of the causes for which they 
were sent to fight the longest 

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war of this new century. 
The longest war in our history. 

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The defining endless war or 
Forever War was Afghanistan in 

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2001. 
We sent an army Halfway Around 

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the World to exact retribution 
on Al-Qaeda for 9/11 and That 

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rivaled Pearl Harbor in numbers 
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Because Al Qaeda and Osama. 
Bin Laden had been given 

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Sanctuary by the Taliban in 
Kabul, who refused to give him 

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up. 
We invaded overthrew. 

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The islamist regime and cleanse 
Tora Bora of al-Qaeda. 

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So this is actually inaccurate 
Bush, actually rejected the 

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Taliban offered to hand Bin 
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You can look at the guardian. 
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demanded evidence of Bin Laden's
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Second week of airstrikes 
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Taliban urges u.s. 
To Halt bombing President George

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Bush rejected, as non-negotiable
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discuss turning over Bin Laden 
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bombing in Afghanistan, so they 
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In fact, Bush actually mentions 
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I laid out an ultimatum to the 
Taliban they will Over the 

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terrorists or they will share 
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We had little hope that 
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it but exposing their Defiance 
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justification for a military 
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So, asking for bin Laden was 
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offered to hand Bin Laden over 
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was never accepted. 
Mission accomplished, but then 

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the mission changed in control 
of a land that had seen off 

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British and Soviet imperialist. 
We hubristic Lee said about 

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establishing a democracy and 
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Americans to hold off the rebel 
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For two decades while we went 
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We did not succeed. 
All US troops are to be gone by 

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the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and
the Albion we announced. 

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It has never been closer to 
recapturing, power and Kabul. 

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Today's issue. 
How do we save Afghanistan? 

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Who allied with us with us in 
this war so that they do not 

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face the terrible Vengeance of a
Victorious, Taliban the second 

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American war of the century was 
the invasion and occupation of 

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Iraq to strip. 
Its dictator Saddam Hussein of 

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weapons of mass destruction 
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attack the United States begun 
in 2003. 

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The war has lasted, 18 years. 
No wmd. 

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Or ever found most US troops 
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And today the Baghdad regime 
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Shiite, militia, who looked at 
Aron for guidance and support. 

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Not only do they not have a 
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provide, but there was also the 
lie that bush gave in his 

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presidential address where he 
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of yellowcake, uranium from 
Niger to Iraq, which was exposed

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by Joe Wilson. 
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the New York Times, and then to 
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The Bush Administration. 
Had Richard Armitage leaked to 

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the Wall Street Journal that 
Valerie Plame was in the CIA. 

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This is how these sort of things
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They explicitly lie in the never
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Afghanistan and Iraq cause a 
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thousand wounded, were they 
necessary Wars, where they wise 

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were they worth it in the second
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We intervened in Syria to back 
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Seeking to overthrow Bashar 
al-assad and became an 

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indispensable Ally in the Saudi 
Arabia's murderers are born to 

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stop houthi. 
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in Yemen, as far as backing the 
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There is an email. 
Male by Jake Sullivan, in the 

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state department emails from 
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confused with the Wikileaks 
emails where he says to remind 

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Hillary that a cue is on our 
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So the quote good Rebels. 
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job at Al nusra and known as 
al-Qaeda in Syria, in both Syria

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and Yemen hundreds of thousands 
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been wounded, killed uprooted or
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countries. 
These are listed among the 

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humanitarian catastrophes of the
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inflict so much damage on those 
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Did we succeed in our missions 
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After six years of fighting the 
houthis still control the yemeni

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capital of Sanaa and Assad just 
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with a 95% of the vote in 2011. 
President, Barack Obama ordered 

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us airstrikes on kernel mode. 
Muammar Gaddafi's forces in 

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Libya, beginning a NATO 
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his overthrow and lynching in 
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However, the future of Libya, 
was not being decided by the 

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European Union or us, but fought
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and supplied by turkey. 
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and Russia. 
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that the worst mistake of his 
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the aftermath of his 2011, 
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again the men and women sent to 
the Middle East, to fight these 

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wars, did their Duty and deserve
the Gratitude of their 

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countrymen that they receive 
this Memorial Day weekend, but 

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where is the accounting? 
For those who sent them to fight

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bleed and die in that turned out
to be unwinnable Wars, or at 

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least Wars, that were not given 
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to win. 
What makes these questions of 

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importance and not only to us. 
Dorian's is that the Cry of the 

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hawk may be heard again. 
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We hear calls to confront Iran 
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Build an atom bomb and 
challenge, Putin and armed. 

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Ukraine to retake Crimea and 
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Out of the donbas. 
We hear Talk of the American 

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Navy contesting beijing's claims
in the East and South China Seas

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including Taiwan the stories of 
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Should make us think long and 
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Unnecessary, unwise or 
unwinnable Wars as far as 

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holding the politicians 
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I think the soldiers are more 
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the ones actually making the 
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You can ask any police officer 
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If you just say yes officer. 
I committed this crime and I did

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this bad thing, but I actually 
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told me to do it, the cop will 
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As he's arresting you here is an
old story called the Christmas 

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Truce of 1914. 
This is from history.com., Did 

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you know on December 7th? 
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suggested a temporary Hiatus of 
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Christmas, the warring countries
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ceasefire but on Christmas the 
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declared their own unofficial 
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Christmas Truce of 1914. 
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this is that it's not that all 
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Germans and all the Russians and
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They always hated each other and
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Are there trying to hold us 
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back, the populations trying to 
go to war, and it's governments 

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that are the root of all, peace 
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Keep us safe. 
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It's governments. 
Generals and politicians pushing

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people into war and the The 
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in Authority that those people 
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And second if they commit 
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doing it with the state or the 
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Well, then, they don't have to 
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So, as we can see, we can really
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got along with the separation of
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had to deal with each other on a
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occupying, the state meant our 
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to your religion. 
We just need separation of 

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Economy and state. 
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will end if we don't recognize 
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Authority, here is another 
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The United Kingdom declaration 
of war on Germany in 1939. 

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The United Kingdom, declared war
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September 1939. 
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Invaded Poland, France. 
Also declared war on Germany 

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later, that same day, the state 
of war, was announced to the 

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British public through radio. 
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Neville Chamberlain. 
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This morning, the British 
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German government, a final note,
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from them by 11:00 that they 
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withdraw their troops from 
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exist between us. 
I have to tell you now that no 

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such undertaking has been 
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this country is at war with 
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So the Second World War started 
because Poland's Independence 

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was violated, so, So after the 
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happened. 
There were about. 260 million 

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deaths in the second world war. 
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was a military operation by the 
Soviet Union without a formal 

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declaration of war on the 17th 
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The Soviet Union invaded Poland 
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Germany invaded, Poland from the
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So they were also invading 
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And what happened? 
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was given to Stalin by the end 
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So the bloodiest war in probably
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that comes to mind started 
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Polish people from living under 
tyranny and after 60 million 

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deaths, they gave Poland to 
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Here is an old quote by Randolph
Bourne. 

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He said war is the health of the
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So In other words, in a time of 
War where there's an enemy, you 

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can really get people to give up
thinking reasonably thinking 

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rationally, they're much more 
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They otherwise wouldn't plus 
they're also very scared. 

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Saddam's going to Nuke us Iran's
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coming Etc. 
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is that the state is the health 
of War? 

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When people believe that some 
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others and murder isn't murder. 
When a group called Congress 

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does, Or the military does it 
that lowers the cost of those 

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people participating in those 
immoral actions, which increases

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the likelihood they're going to 
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So, the state is the health of 
War. 

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Imagine if politicians had to 
raise their own money 

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voluntarily and have their own 
marketing campaigns, and maybe 

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they that they had to even go 
over there themselves. 

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Well, when you have a trillions 
of dollars in taxes, every year 

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going to a state Well, people 
don't have the ability to opt 

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out of funding it. 
So Taxation and the belief in 

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Authority, the belief that 
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the state does it. 
That causes so much war and so 

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much tension. 
That is completely unnecessary. 

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Excellent work by Pat Buchanan. 
Definitely someone know with a 

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lot of Courage. 
Thank you for watching Keith 

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Knight. 
Don't try it on anyone and the 

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libertarian Institute.