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For 20 years, the corporate media were wrong about nearly everything in
Afghanistan.

Now, with the U.S. leaving and the Taliban taking over, the same people
who were wrong from the start are once again popping up all over cable
news.

David Petraeus. Newt Gingrich. Paul Wolfowitz. John Bolton. George W.
Bush. Tony Blair.

And what's their message? The same as always. They want foreign troops
to stay in Afghanistan.

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must stop listening to the people who created this mess in the first
place. We need independent, nonprofit media that will listen to those
who said all along that the war was a mistake.

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