Obama's Afghanistan policy: not the way . . .

. . . we put an end to war:

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Still love her work.
My first thought was that some of those kids are only going fighting 'cause the jobs are gone, but then I learned that a new poll (Rasmussen) would seem to indicate that 62 percent of U.S. people are now against single-payer as health reform. So maybe the brainwash scrubs well.
If only those war funds could pay instead for healthcare.