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Re:Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epid... by delecti on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:34AM (#14459695)
Veteran suicide rates are comparable to civilian suicide rates, and even including all combat and terrorism deaths in the last 20 years together we're at around 10,000, compared to 35,000 opioid deaths in just 2015.

And honestly, the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths. That was our dumb fault. That was a military industrial complex power grab.

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Re:Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epid... by curun1r on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:08PM (#14467137)
> the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths

This is just wrong. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 provided the political cover that the Bush administration needed to take the country to war. Absent that terrorist act, there's no way that the American public and the international community would have stood by and allowed the US invasion to take place the way that they did because of 9/11.

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