How Bad Policy Is Turning Veterans Into Victims | LTC Daniel Gade, PhD
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
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Is Your Son's Burn Pit Exposure to That Burn Pit?
The president goes around telling people that his son died, at least in part due to burn pits in a rack. But was the brain cancer due to his burn pit exposure? I would say probably not. There's this, there's this universal thing, impossible to make causal connection. Externalizing blame is always like a warm blanket, yes? And so part of what happens when somebody has a rare cancer of their lungs or some kind of other horrible disease,. If you can point at the government and say it's the government's fault, then you can have the warm emotional blanket, but you can also have the substantial financial blankets.
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