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Radio War Nerd EP 370 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 1: Abandoned Soldiers, feat. Seth Harp

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The WMD Al-Qaeda Debate

I was against the Iraq war from day one. I wrote letters to my college newspaper saying that the WMD al-Qaeda thing wasn't like, are you basically arguing with people? And they would go on. Ours was called the firing line. You could get into it over a period of weeks. There was a guy in my unit who dropped a weight on his foot on purpose and I have to deploy. Everyone looked at him as this cat total coward who had done this thing, injured his foot onpurpose to avoid going.

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