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00:00We know the history of military conflict in Afghanistan.

00:07Long years of floundering and ultimate failure.

00:13We're not going to repeat that mistake.

00:162002, Donald Rumsfeld dictates out a memo saying,

00:19how are we going to get out of Afghanistan?

00:21And he ends it with one word, help, exclamation point.

00:25Completely at odds with what the public had been told.

00:28Privately, people were saying this war was a total disaster.

00:34This is off the record.

00:36But we offered anonymity to people who couldn't speak the truth publicly.

00:41We were never going to succeed.

00:43This isn't going to work.

00:45The White House says we're winning the war,

00:47but these interviews, it's clear we're not winning.

00:49We are winning, winning, winning this war.

00:52What bulls**t?

00:55Officials were under pressure to report only good news.

00:58This goal is achievable.

01:00But people knew the war could not be won.

01:02Every measurable activity is failing.

01:06We're spending $300 million a day for 20 years.

01:1025% is being stolen, and it's ending up in the hands of the insurgents.

01:15Corruption, bribery, stealing.

01:17And the embassy said, oh, don't go down that road.

01:19Don't go down that road.

01:21How about fixing the problem?

01:25There was this exaggeration after exaggeration of what we accomplished,

01:29and it went all the way up to the present.

01:32We have liberated village after village.

01:34We broke the Taliban's momentum.

01:36We are winning responsibly, deliberately, and safely.

01:39They're lying to you.

01:41They didn't care about what the reality of this war was.

01:44They cared about whether or not their narrative was going to be upset

01:46by somebody speaking to the press.

01:50Sometimes the truth is so precious,

01:52it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies.

01:54I don't want to be quoted on this.