The Bush, Obama and Trump administration lied to Congress and the American people about the progress of the war in Afghanistan. This according to classified documents obtained by the Washington Post after a years long legal battle.
We’ve sent almost a million American servicemembers to Afghanistan over the past 20 years to fight a war US officials knew was unwinnable almost from jump.
This lie has cost us to date more than 2,300 US military deaths and $2 trillion, not to mention the devastating effects of the 19 year war on the Afghan people. Even more shocking is that the Democratic President who ran on ending the war continued Bush’s Afghan war policy and cover-up at the cost of American lives. How do you explain that to the families they left behind?
These revelations are on a scale of the Vietnam War Pentagon Papers but have barely gotten any notice in the sh*t storm that is the Trump administration.
Some Democrats have a lot to answer for in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s time we elected a Democrat who will end the dysfunctional, deadly policies of endless war that destroy American lives, squander trillions of American dollars and result in failed states that put millions at risk and a create a more insecure world.