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Lowery letter: Not our wars

The One Percent and Corporate America have made enough money from starting wars and refusing to win them. None of the struggles we are in the middle of all over the planet are ours. Let the nations who are in the region take care of their problems themselves.

More and more American families are falling below the poverty line.

Bring all our troops home to work in our own country.

The $3 trillion wasted in the Middle East would have provided health care and educations to a lot of young people.

Instead we killed and injured tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of innocent nationals who just got in the way.

When is enough, enough?

I saw it in Vietnam and in South America.

Odos Lowery, Boise

This story was originally published March 30, 2016 at 6:32 PM with the headline "Lowery letter: Not our wars."

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