“As someone who did four combat deployments in a special operations unit that’s supposed to be super celebrated: They don’t care about you, they don’t care about vets.” Anti-war veteran and Texas congressional candidate @greg.j.stoker slammed Washington’s use of vets as props for its bipartisan self-serving politics. He pointed to current efforts by the Koch brothers to privatize VA health care under Trump, as well as the surge in drone strikes on Afghanistan in the Obama years. BT spoke to Stoker at Saturday’s “Freedom Over Fascism” rally in Philadelphia, the largest anti-war protest gathering of active-duty service members since the Vietnam War.

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