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Part One: Jack Idema: The War On Terror's Dumbest Grifter

Behind the Bastards

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The Beginning of the War in Afghanistan

The war in Afghanistan is a real I think people like it's been going on for so long that now we all just think about it as this like endless slightly draining and expensive, but mostly forgotten disaster. In the early days when like us troops were first into the country, there were a ton of just random assholes who would roll into Afghanistan with whatever weapons they could manage to smuggle across international borders and just try to do some shit. And it we don't we don't talk about them anymore, but it's one of the funnest things that ever happened. So please. Yeah, the first one of these beautiful bastards I want to talk about was Gary Brooks Faulkner

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