Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Americans Constantly Lied to about Afghan War; US Officials Reiterated Lies on Unwinnable War

The Washington Post has published more than 2,000 pages of secret notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the Afghanistan War, describing the failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history, The Daily Beast website reports today (December 10, 2019).

The interviews from more than 400 people show that U.S. officials did not tell the truth about the war, making positive statements they knew were wrong and concealing evidence that the war wasn't winnable.

Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general, said in 2015: "What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking."

Some said it was normal to distort statistics to make it seem as if the U.S. was winning the war when that was far from the case.

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