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IndyOp

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2. All of his "issues" statements are brief - but they are packed with info...
Fri May 17, 2019, 01:14 PM
May 2019

I consider this one a gem: "And we will prepare our military and disaster response agencies for the security threats of climate change."

Pete quotes John Kerry when he talks about troops in Afghanistan - "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Using military for climate crisis security is a way - finally, finally, finally, finally - to give people in the military a mission that every single American can back.

Climate crisis and ending endless war are my #1 and #2 issues -- if we don't end the extreme, absurd, morally reprehensible "adventures" around the world we do not have a snowball's chance in hell of putting out the fire that has engulfed our planet.

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