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| Subject: Hawks who lied about the Afghanistan War attacked every presidential candidate who was right about it Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:54 am | |
| It’s no secret there has been widespread bipartisan support among Washington elites for continuing the Afghanistan War indefinitely since it was launched nearly two decades ago. A new report from the Washington Post details how federal government officials misled the public for years on how well the unwinnable war was going. As far back as 2004, then-Sen. John Kerry predictably went after President George W. Bush for the Iraq debacle but also stressed, “Now we have to succeed” in the “right” war in Afghanistan. In that same election, one-time liberal favorite Howard Dean wanted to double down in that mission. These two candidates could feasibly be forgiven for seeing some potential victory in Afghanistan, given the proximity of their races to the beginning of that war. The first presidential candidates of any note to declare Afghanistan a failure and demand we bring the troops home wouldn’t happen until 2008. The first one to do so was a Republican.
More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hawks-who-lied-about-the-afghanistan-war-attacked-every-presidential-candidate-who-was-right-about-it |
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