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Refugees fight own battles

In response to the latest terrorist attack, we hear a lot of calls for troops on the ground. I am all for it; let’s arm the media and the human rights activists and send them to fight ISIS. They should be led by former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

While they are at it, on their spare time, they can look for weapons of mass destruction and take notes on human rights violation, and how many innocent civilians are getting killed. Meanwhile, I would like the news media to identify a war in history in which no women and children were killed.

Let’s send back all the able-bodied men we see among the refugees. How many of them were trained and equipped by America before they put their tail between their legs and an at the sight of the enemy?

Send them back to fight for their own country instead of looking for freebies in Europe and the United States. We need no more people on our welfare roll.

Let them fight their own battle instead of expecting our soldiers to fight it for them.

Inge Bender

Kettle Falls



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