A new report from the Washington Post has lifted the curtain on a sustained effort to mislead the American people about the war in Afghanistan.
Per the Daily Caller:
An Inspector General’s report, obtained by the Washington Post, reportedly shows a years-long concerted effort on the part of American military and government officials to hide the cost of the war in Afghanistan — and the war’s chances of success.
The Post reports that officials were aware that the now 20-year-long, trillion dollar effort may have been doomed to failure from the beginning, and that military strategists involved in the war were confused about the war’s objectives and how to achieve them. The trove of around 2,000 documents essentially, the Post says, accuses military leaders and senior government officials of “making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.”
Officials spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations cooked the books to make Americans believe the war was progressing much better than it was.
"Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible,” Col. Bob Crowley told the Inspector General, according to the Washington Post. “Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.”
“Several of those interviewed described explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public,” according to the Post. “They said it was common at military headquarters in Kabul — and at the White House — to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case.”
Government officials will never stop attempting to mislead the public. And the federal government, for all the unconstitutional responsibilities it has placed upon itself, is the proper level of government to prosecute foreign wars.
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