Eight Years Later: Speak Out Against the War in Afghanistan


	Eight Years Later: Speak Out Against the War in Afghanistan

papananook

9-16-2009 4:59 AM

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papananook says:

I remember the day after 9-11 when I was talking to a group of friends in Rehab about it--they (all supposedly reasonable people) all wanted to go to war and I was alone in saying that going to war would solve NOTHING. So, who was right?
'Mericans first response to any crisis seems to be violence of some kind and I'm SICK OF IT.
So speak out, don't hold back, fellow Americans!!!

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