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Stephen Kinzer: “Entire planeloads of pallets of hundred dollar bills were…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 58:40

They have really tried to quantify how many billions we have poured into this war, how many people have been killed. The stories that we come up with about Entire planeloads of pallets of hundred dollar bills were taken from the United States to Kabul and then to Dubai. to be put into the bank accounts of the corrupt warlords to whom we were sending all this money are really overwhelming. It's not just that the money was not used to any effect. (58:40–59:01)

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Asserts that large sums of money were transported from the U.S. to Kabul and then to Dubai.

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