Video Infoblog with Transcript: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the war in Gaza
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson will discuss the genocide in Gaza, being brutally carried out with the political, military, and financial support of the US. Mr. Wilkerson will discuss the other most pressing foreign policy issues of the day including the risk of escalating war in the heart of Europe and in the Middle East involving Israel, the US, Iran, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah (the Houthis), as well as US policies with respect to China and Taiwan. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired Colonel of the United States Army. Col. Wilkerson served for 31 years in the US Army, which included a position as Special Assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989-1993. Later, Col. Wilkerson served as the Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002-2005.
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Prestige what Dean aeson called the
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shadow of power
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Prestige lot of things wrapped up in
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that word with Joe Biden and Ukraine too
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don't want to be proved so blatantly
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wrong that's where we are in Ukraine
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Gaza another matter altogether we are
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paying for our
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Fidelity to a people 85% of the Israel
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da people who are Jewish are for this
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war they don't necessarily like
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Netanyahu but they are for what he's
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doing we are lashed up to them in a way
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that is so debilitating so against our
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national security interest so against
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our humanitarian and reputational
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interest that it makes your heart hurt
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to be in Washington and see it happening
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every day and when Schumer gets up and
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makes a political statement and that's
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what it was pure politics he sees all
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those people going away from The Ballot
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Box and so he's got to make some
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overture in order to try and get him
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back does he really mean what he's
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saying no he's probably just like Mitch
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McConnell if you scratched him
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hard it's unconscionable what I'm seeing
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happening in Washington and every time
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somebody excoriates me or comes after me
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in some way for my appearances on
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television or what whatever I get a even
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more visceral view of these poisonous
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people who think first too many of them
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think Israel's doing the right thing one
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said to me a patent
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neoconservative if they weren't killing
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them we'd have to be there killing them
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and I ask him explain yourself what the
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hell do you mean there are all
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terrorists those women and children at
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the foot of that hospital that 2,000lb
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bomb dropped on that you made and sent
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to
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them they're
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terrorists well they're supporting
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terrorists they will they'll grow up and
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be terrorist reminded me of what one
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person told me a Serb who was a sniper
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in Saro and he just shot a 13-year-old
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boy on the street and he was asked by a
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un per un peacekeeping Force officer why
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he did that and he said because he'll
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grow up to be a terrorist well that's
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what these people
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think that's what these people think and
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that's what Netanyahu thinks and let me
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tell you another thing about Netanyahu
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and what he's been doing since he was
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Finance Minister Netanyahu first of all
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running for office created the turmoil
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and the anger that got Yak orine
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assassinated and then the settler who
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assassin at him he resurrected him and
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made him a hero this is BB Netanyahu
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this isn't something new what he's doing
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he's been doing this for over 15 years
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personally orchestrating it now he's in
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and out of the political realm in
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different niches because he has to keep
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getting elected otherwise he'd go to
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jail but he's been doing this what has
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now come to fruition in Gaza for longer
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than 15 years slowly but surely he's
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been Exterminating the Palestinians in
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the West Bank if you've been there you
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know that it now has roads running
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through it some of them look like aons
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and they're all to connect isra
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settlements and to screen out
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Palestinians Ben gavier has brought a
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new Vengeance to this Ben gav his
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director of security is handing out
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weapons now AR-15 type weapons now for
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the settlers because what is their
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intent now that they've almost finished
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the West Bank and they've started on and
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will finish East Jerusalem fairly
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swiftly their intent is to go into Gaza
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and to do it in Gaza you may have seen
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the protests that occurred around the
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food I wouldn't call them protests the
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turmoil that occurred around the uh food
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trucks not too long ago about a week ago
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or so and they killed a couple hundred
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people well part of that was because
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they got the settlers in there too the
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settlers are getting ready to do the
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things they did in the West Bank and in
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East Jerusalem but now in
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Gaza
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Rafa and what he's going to do there is
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probably the Final Act in terms of
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extermination just outright
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extermination and evacuation he's going
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to have some left so my query the other
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day of one of the guys who's been
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talking about this with me is he's on
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the ground in in Gaza what do you
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think's going to happen to the the ones
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that are Left
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Alive well they're going to go somewhere
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and it isn't going to be staying in Gaza
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well Egypt has said they won't take them
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Jordan is said they won't take them you
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can't push anymore into other places you
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can't push them into the sin what what
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is going to happen well he'll cross that
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bridge when he comes to it I said man
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I've heard that before where you hear
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that before when will ta Pal's lawyer
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asked
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Rell will said essentially you got a
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13year old down there in Guantanamo a
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13year old let's say he lives to be 80
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are you prepared to see him stay there
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for almost another 70 years and runfell
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looked at him and
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said we'll cross that bridge when we get
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to it well rell's
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dead we've crossed that bridge and we
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still have people in Guantanamo
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BB wants to get through this stay out of
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jail and turn it over to the next guy
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who will do the same damn thing because
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they've been doing it since
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1967 Palestinians are probably say
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they've been doing it since the
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knba but they've definitely been doing
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it in contravention of international law
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in contravention on what we say we stand
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for since
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1967 and here's another thing I became
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an amaki kurai on a court case that
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hinges around the courts and we're
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contesting this decision by the courts
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the courts at the federal district level
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having decided that Gaza is a foreign
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policy issue and so the courts have no
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jurisdiction and one of the things
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they're claiming is that Israel's
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actions on October the 7th were
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self-defense under article 51 of the UN
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Charter here's my argument back to
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them Israel has been under the UN
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Charter as an occupying power and under
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Geneva since
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1967 it has never never fulfilled its
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responsibilities as an occupying
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power never intended to fulfill them in
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fact it has dispossessed the
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Palestinians of their lands of their
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Orchards destroyed their homes killed
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their
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children it is an irresponsible under
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the law occupying power therefore the
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Palestinians had every right to do what
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they did on October the
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7th that is not very comfortable in
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Washington to make that kind of
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statement especially not amongst Jewish
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Americans or people who are tightly tied
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to
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Israel but it is the
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facts and I can't wait to see what the
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judge says when he reads this case if we
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get it to go forward but that's how
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entrenched we are in it because we are
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as Gideon Levy from haaretz has said so
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many times every time that F-16 flies
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over Gaza and drops that 250 PB bomb and
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kills that child you are guilty America
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you are as guilty as BB as anybody in
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that right-wing lud Administration you
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are just as guilty because you are
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enabling it they could not do it without
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you they are drawing on our largest War
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Reserve stockpile in the world which is
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in
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Israel not only that they're getting
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extra Munitions from all over the place
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in fact we're running so low now on
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certain key mins that you've got the
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chairman of the Joint Chiefs and other
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service Chiefs weighing in with the
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White House you got to stop this between
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Ukraine and Israel We are
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Becoming
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tooless ammunition lless Etc so the
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military is even weighing into it now
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that's beside the point these wars
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Ukraine and Gaza are at the top of the
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list of 20 years of stupid insane Wars
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thanks
