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And breaking news off the top of five, the war in Afghanistan is over.

The last American plane lifted off from Kabul International Airport.

We've witnessed a striking conclusion to the Afghanistan war,

where for 20 years, the U.S. fought to make the country a neo-colonies for basis and resource

extraction, only to suffer a historic embarrassment.

Two trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives lost couldn't tamp down an insurgency that was bred by the CIA decades prior.

As the war will fade into memory for most Americans, the Biden administration, and the U.S. government

as a whole, is already starting to rewrite the true legacy of the occupation. They want

you to forget the real lessons of the post-9-11 warpath. Historical amnesia is the doorway

to the new wars they want to wage.

One, the generals and politicians will lie about why we have to go to war.

Capturing Osama bin Laden was the ultimate goal, the ultimate objective.

If they want us to stop our military operations, they've just got to meet my condition.

Weapons of mass destruction.

The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad.

I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional

30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

Republicans lie about self-defense.

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