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Twenty years of suffering, tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, countless American lives lost or permanently ruined, hundreds of thousands of dead Afghani citizens and it took just days for it to revert back to worse than it was before.

Despite what the establishment media and political blowhards are claiming on the surface, behind the scenes, warhawks are making sure the Afghan war never ends.

No, contrary to what the President claimed earlier this month, the war in Afghanistan is not ending on September 11, it will continue.

Thousands of US troops have died, hundreds of thousands of civilians slaughtered, a trillion spent, so the US could give "freedom" to Afghanistan to ban singing.

Success in Afghanistan "was actually irrelevant because we were just killing so many people and it wasn’t making any difference at all.”

A report from the U.S. government admits that after spending $8.62 billion to eliminate opium production in Afghanistan, the U.S. actually contributed to it.

On this day 16 years ago, former NFL player Pat Tillman was shot and killed by his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan, and the events surrounding his death still remain a mystery.

March 29 has been designated as National Vietnam War Veterans Day, which serves as a reminder that it is time to finally end the war in Afghanistan.

While the United States controls more than 90 percent of the world's opium supply in Afghanistan, the rate of Americans who are addicted to heroin and who have died from drug overdoses has skyrocketed.

While the United States government spends $45 billion on the 17th year of the Afghanistan War, it ignores the fact that just half of that money could be used to virtually end homelessness in the U.S. annually.