In what's already being hailed as a defining and explosive "Pentagon papers" moment, a cache of previously classified documents obtained by The Washington Post show top Pentagon leaders continuously lied to the public about the "Progress" of the now eighteen-year long Afghan war.
The some 2,000 pages of notes from interviews of senior officials who have shaped US strategy in Afghanistan confirm that "Senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false... hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable," according to the bombshell Post report.
Here's more undeniable evidence that you were lied to about the war in Afghanistan, for anyone who needed more undeniable evidence that you were lied to about the war in Afghanistan.
Another top official, former White House Afghan war czar Douglas Lute under Bush and Obama, confessed, "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - we didn't know what we were doing." He added that "We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking" after the 2001 invasion.
The manipulation on a mass scale of statistics fed to the public in order to hide the true disastrous nature of the war; and.... US leaders "Turning a blind eye" to large scale theft of US tax payer dollars by corrupt Afghan officials.
For all the hand-wringing and outrage Monday's WaPo bombshell will unleash this week, it must be remembered that the establishment in both parties have consistently pushed to stay at war, not to mention going to war in the first place.
As independent journalist David Mizner observes of the new 'Afghan Papers' it remains that "US politicians lie to stay at war, every time. The real crime was going to war in the first place - and almost no US politicians, pundits, and or journos with large platforms opposed the war."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unearthed-pentagon-docs-reveal-afghan-war-deception-new-pentagon-papers-moment
The some 2,000 pages of notes from interviews of senior officials who have shaped US strategy in Afghanistan confirm that "Senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false... hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable," according to the bombshell Post report.
Here's more undeniable evidence that you were lied to about the war in Afghanistan, for anyone who needed more undeniable evidence that you were lied to about the war in Afghanistan.
Another top official, former White House Afghan war czar Douglas Lute under Bush and Obama, confessed, "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - we didn't know what we were doing." He added that "We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking" after the 2001 invasion.
The manipulation on a mass scale of statistics fed to the public in order to hide the true disastrous nature of the war; and.... US leaders "Turning a blind eye" to large scale theft of US tax payer dollars by corrupt Afghan officials.
For all the hand-wringing and outrage Monday's WaPo bombshell will unleash this week, it must be remembered that the establishment in both parties have consistently pushed to stay at war, not to mention going to war in the first place.
As independent journalist David Mizner observes of the new 'Afghan Papers' it remains that "US politicians lie to stay at war, every time. The real crime was going to war in the first place - and almost no US politicians, pundits, and or journos with large platforms opposed the war."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unearthed-pentagon-docs-reveal-afghan-war-deception-new-pentagon-papers-moment
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