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mahina

(17,642 posts)
2. Needs to go back a little farther
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 01:42 PM
Aug 2021

To the time of the Vietnam war when I know from my own Father that there was immense corruption.
Schools and medical clinics in the tri-border all fully equipped and staffed of course, on the books for year after year, all of it bullshit. When my Dad told the man he reported to that none of it was real he was cut off from all support for the rest of his tour.

Then they had gall to ask him to stay.

We only learned of this including the name of the man he reported to, after Dad died from his written account for the V.A. to Bill Kilauano. Bill was an angel to our family and now has passed himself.

Fast forward to our entry to Afghanistan when we didn’t even count the money we gave warlords because it took so long. They weighed the money.

May this be the beginning of the end of the military industrial complex and the graft and corruption within the larger hustle that is our system of campaign funding.

Oh- I like that website too. I don’t usually think of it but every 4 years so thanks for the reminder.

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