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Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account.

Author: Corky (723 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 11:07 am on Dec 17, 2019
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Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account.
Activists often pledge to ‘speak truth to power.’ The sad reality is that power often knows the truth.

They lied. They lied repeatedly, year after year, about America’s longest war—the Afghanistan fiasco now in its 19th year. They—presidents, department heads, generals, civilians and uniformed military up and down the line—misled the American people, reporting “progress” in a misguided war that they knew was not being won. “At war with the truth” is the stark and inescapable conclusion of the Afghanistan Papers, dubbed this generation’s Pentagon Papers, a trove of documents brought to light by the extraordinary efforts of the Post. The reality, as retired Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the former White House czar for Afghanistan during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, admitted, “We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”

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Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity...

Replies to: "Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account."

  • Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account. [LINK] [IMAGE] - Corky - 11:07am 12/17/19 (16) [View All]
    • No cartoon to go with your post this time? [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 2:20pm 12/17/19
    • The W/Vice neocons must not have heard of the Khyber Pass. All they had to do was ask the Brits... [NT] - ND521 - 12:43pm 12/17/19
      • What is your point? (Honest question. Not trying to argue.) [NT] - NedoftheHill - 12:47pm 12/17/19
        • From conception the 'war' was not winnable. In possibly his dumbest move, Obama bought in and made - ND521 - 1:02pm 12/17/19
          • The original war against those who knocked down the towers was very winnable and was won. - Frank L - 4:12pm 12/17/19
          • I don't think we had any choice but to go into Afghanistan. What would you have done instead? - NedoftheHill - 1:19pm 12/17/19
            • Al Qaeda was largely defeated shortly after the initial invasion. Turning a conflict into an - ND521 - 1:31pm 12/17/19
              • Yeah. Not a bad point. Whether we occupy or withdraw & rest after a victory is a judgement call. - NedoftheHill - 1:40pm 12/17/19
    • There was no "Afghanistan War." Anyone who believes that does not understand our enemy. - NedoftheHill - 11:47am 12/17/19
      • Agree we are fighting an ideology not a war. It’s ideology so staying forever is not sound policy [NT] - PBHangingChad - 11:59am 12/17/19
    • There isn’t a war the Pentagon doesn’t want. That’s why there is serious pushback getting out - PBHangingChad - 11:13am 12/17/19
      • That is simply false, and ignorant. - Chris94 - 11:23am 12/17/19
        • So is that why retired generals appear on TV to criticize Trump from wanting to leave? [NT] - PBHangingChad - 11:56am 12/17/19
          • Yes. Read the post. They want to win above all. [NT] - Chris94 - 12:04pm 12/17/19
            • After 18 years there is no winning team in Afghanistan. If they don’t know that they should go [NT] - PBHangingChad - 12:32pm 12/17/19
        • All this because Hillary lost,Lol.... family must be happy around you [NT] - eftg1 - 11:25am 12/17/19
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