Congress Must Investigate Why America Was Lied To About Afghanistan for All These Years – Gabbard

A sustained effort by several US administrations to mislead the American public

on the engagement in Afghanistan

NYPD officers salute during the funeral of officer Joseph Lemm, who was killed during a deployment in Afghanistan in 2015. ©REUTERS / Carlo Allegri

Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard pledged to seek a congressional inquiry into the Afghanistan war after a damning report said US officials have been lying about what has been happening there since the US occupation began.

Gabbard, a military veteran who runs for the Democratic nomination on an anti-war platform, said there has to be “accountability for the lying” and the lives and taxpayer money lost in the longest military operation in the US history.

“The cost of this war and regime change wars and the nation-building that follows is immeasurable in many ways but it’s measurable in the ways that have been detailed in that Washington Post report,” she told Hill.TV on Tuesday.

The Washington Post expose is based on documents it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and paints a picture of a sustained effort by several US administrations to mislead the American public on the engagement in Afghanistan.

This is simply proof that it doesn't matter whether Republican or Democrats are in charge, it is really Deep State that is running the show. Donald Trump, for all his faults, and they are many, is not Deep State, but it is they who are attempting to control him, and because they are finding that very difficult, they are behind the impeachment process. It's that simple; you get in line with Deep State, or you're out! Just look at John and Bobby Kennedy. Tulsi Gabbard is walking a very dangerous road, taking them on so publicly.

The report states that, while publicly reporting progress and being on the verge of success, behind closed doors US officials admitted they were “devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan” and what they were doing there, according to Ret. Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, who served as a top adviser on the war during the Bush and Obama administrations.

This is also simple, Gen Lute, you were there to use up the inventory of war so the military industrial complex can sell the country billions of dollars of weapons they wouldn't otherwise need.

That's what America is all about and why we are getting farther and farther from peace on earth.

“We’ve known for so long that it was the military-industrial complex, contractors, consultants like McKinsey, who are profiting off of this scam, who have ripped off the American taxpayer dollars of over a trillion dollars just in Afghanistan alone,” Gabbard added, making an apparent jab at her competitor in the race, Pete Buttigieg. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana used to work for McKinsey & Company and did consulting work in Iraq and Afghanistan.