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11 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The Biden Admin is in federal court to battle a request by an Afghan citizen to be released from Guantanamo, where has been held *14 years* with no charges. His argument: the US isn't even at war any more with the Afghan self-defense militia he joined:

nytimes.com/2021/05/10/us/…
The Biden DOJ is in court insisting that he remain in a due-process-free cage -- citing their ongoing war with Al Qaeda, to which he never belonged -- even while they lie to their gullible liberal followers that they want to close Guantanamo: same as the Obama DOJ did in 2009.
This guy isn't a "terrorist." He is an Afghan who defended his country against invasion & occupation by foreign armies: something every American claims they would do, too.

Let me ask, about this & Israel: how many years would you wait to fight against a foreign occupying army?
Also, I'd genuinely like to read a serious attempt to reconcile the "America First" ideology of the Trump/MAGA movement with this reflexive demand that massive US taxpayer $ be transferred to Israel & the US always intervene in this conflict for Israel:

The only way a person can claim that Biden is some radical and enlightened liberal is if the scope of your concerns stop at the US border, and you don't give the slightest shit for what the US Govt does to others. The Right admits this, but US liberalism can't and won't.

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It's absolutely bizarre how much media/liberal resistance there is to the possibility of a COVID lab leak. Both the US & China do offensive and defensive research on viruses and biological weapons. It's important for prevention to know if this was zoonotic or an inadvertent leak.
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All the people who care about Liz Cheney are either already in the Lincoln Project protecting predators so they don't interrupt their liberal money stream or have CNN and MSNBC contracts. Maybe there are like 5 old Bush Family friends in Texas who also care: maybe.
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