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submitted 1 day ago by pete_link@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

April 22, 2026

[written by a former #Obama admin official]

“I don’t want other young Americans to go through what I’ve been through. And I don’t want to send other young Americans to inflict the horror that I had to inflict on people.”

Polling suggests that most Americans agree with him. So does the feedback he gets day to day. The people he meets overwhelmingly oppose the war; many are furious or heartbroken about it. That includes his fellow veterans. “I don’t know a single guy I served with who thinks this thing in Iran is a good idea,” he told me. Many of those guys are MAGA. “This was one of the reasons they were big Trump supporters — he was the antiwar or ‘America first’ candidate.”

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Man, I hope Maine elects him over Mills. The more people we can get in the Senate who prioritize affordability, the better this country will be for the incoming generation.

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