2022 U.S. Senate Candidate Lucas Kunce served in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine, and he's fighting the narrative much of the corporate media is telling Americans -- by telling the truth.
This week, he made clear to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell who the people are who say the U.S. should have stayed in Afghanistan longer:
"They are the same people whose reputations are on the line for this, they're making money for it. They want to keep us there because they feel it's the right thing to do for them!"
Lucas' experience as a Marine in Afghanistan, and especially coming home and seeing the devastation in our own American communities, propelled him to run for the Senate. On the campaign trail, he tells voters:
"Serving there -- and what I saw when I came home -- factored heavily in my decision to run for U.S. Senate here in Missouri.
"I’ve always said one of the hardest parts of my deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan was coming home to my old neighborhood in Cole County, Missouri. Empty lots, abandoned buildings, a gutted Midwest.
"Our own communities look like battlefields after decades of economic warfare waged by corrupt politicians and massive corporations.
"They spent $6.4 trillion in taxpayer dollars sending soldiers like me out to fight on a doomed mission to build up someone else's country. Then, they turned around and told us we can’t 'afford' nation-building right here at home."
Then Lucas says, "We can’t let the same crooks and liars who got us into these pointless wars continue calling the shots in Congress."
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