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00:00So, I'm trying to look for this story on the Washington Post because that is where I saw it and
00:07that's where it was first exposed. Unfortunately, the Washington Post, we have to give the Washington Post clicks. You're welcome,
00:17Jeff.
00:17And I can't find it. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. I am so mad and upset right now. This story only
00:32came out a few days ago. And it's gone. And it's hidden. And nobody seems to be talking about it.
00:40The media seems to be completely silent about it. All focusing on impeachment, which, don't get me wrong,
00:47it's important, but the focus on impeachment. Meanwhile, we all just found out that we have been lied to for
01:0118 years about the war in Afghanistan. Are we surprised? Not really, but it's official.
01:11Now, I'm going to read this to you because the Washington Post has a fucking paywall.
01:18A confidential trove of government documents obtained by the Washington Post reveals that the senior U.S. officials failed to
01:25tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be
01:32false and hiding unmistakable evidence that the war had become unwinnable.
01:38The documents were generated by a federal project examining the root failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S.
01:45history.
01:45They include more than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with people who played a direct role
01:52in the war, from generals and diplomats to aid workers and Afghan officials.
01:57So, yes, we have been in the Afghanistan war for 18 years. There are people in my audience right now
02:03who didn't know time that we weren't over in the Middle East doing fucking nothing and spending billions of dollars
02:11doing fucking nothing.
02:13The U.S. government tried to shield the identities of the vast majority of those interviewed for the project and
02:18conceal nearly all of their remarks.
02:20The Post won release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle.
02:25In the interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United
02:32States became mirrored in nearly two decades of warfare.
02:36We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn't know what we were doing.
02:42Douglas Lute, a three-star army general who served as the White House's Afghan war Caesar during the Bush and
02:49Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015.
02:53He added,
02:55What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.
03:00So they didn't know. They were just told,
03:02Yeah, go to the desert.
03:04If the American people knew of the magnitude of this dysfunction,
03:082,400 lives lost.
03:11Since 2001, more than 775,000 U.S. troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly.
03:18Of those, 2,300 died there and 20,589 were wounded in action, according to the Defense Department figure.
03:26The interviews, though an extensive array of voices, bring into sharp relief of the core failings of the war that
03:33persists to this day.
03:35They underscore how three presidents, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, and their military commanders have been unable to
03:43deliver on their promises to prevail from Afghanistan.
03:46Pull them out. Pull the troops out. Three presidents.
03:50Pull out game week.
03:52They're still out there.
03:54Still.
03:55It was the reason so many people voted for Trump this time, because he was like,
03:59Hey, let's get them out of there. Are they out of there? No.
04:02With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public,
04:06U.S. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed,
04:10and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation.
04:17Regime change wars.
04:19The shit Tulsi and Bernie talk about all the time.
04:23This shit. We should not be spending so much money on this shit.
04:28We should be spending it home, here, our infrastructure, crumbling, our people, dying.
04:34What are we doing?
04:35Just, here you go, military-industrial complex.
04:39Since 2001, the Defense Department, State Department, and U.S. Agency for the International Development
04:44have spent or appropriated between $934 billion and $978 billion.
04:50What did we get for this $1 trillion effort?
04:54Was it worth $1 trillion?
04:56Several of those interviewed described explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government
05:01to deliberately mislead the public.
05:04They said it was common at the military headquarters and at the White House
05:08to distort statistics and make it appear the United States was winning the war when it was not the case.
05:15Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible.
05:18Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right
05:24and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.
05:27John Soko, the head of the federal agency that conducted the interviews,
05:31acknowledged to the Post that the documents show the American people have been constantly lied.
05:37The Post is publishing the documents now instead of waiting for a final ruling to inform the public
05:43while the Trump administration is negotiating with the Taliban
05:45and considering whether to withdraw 13,000 U.S. troops who remain in Afghanistan.
05:52Yes, please withdraw them.
05:54Why are we there?
05:56We don't invade poor countries to make them rich.
05:58James Dobbins, a former senior U.S. diplomat who served as a special envoy to Afghanistan under Bush and Obama,
06:06told government interviewers,
06:07we don't invade authoritarian countries to make them democratic.
06:11We invade violent countries to make them peaceful and we clearly failed in Afghanistan.
06:17Yeah, that seems to happen a lot.
06:19We seem to invade foreign countries, do fucking nothing, spend a lot of money and make it worse there.
06:25We tend to do that often, so maybe this might be a little, uh, maybe a little crazy,
06:30maybe a little out there, maybe a little extreme, but maybe let's not.
06:36I may be impatient.
06:37In fact, I know I'm a bit impatient, Rumsfeld wrote in one memo to several generals and senior aides.
06:43We are never going to get the U.S. military out of Afghanistan unless we take care
06:47to see that there is something going on that will provide the stability that will be necessary for us to
06:54leave.
06:55Help, he wrote.
06:56The memo was dated April 17th, 2002, six months after the war was started.
07:04Interviews show that as the war dragged on, the goals and missions kept changing
07:09and a lack of faith in the U.S. strategy took root inside the Pentagon, the White House, and the
07:15State Department.
07:16Fundamental disagreements went unresolved.
07:18Some U.S. officials wanted to use the war to turn Afghanistan into a democracy.
07:23Others wanted to transform Afghan culture and elevate women's rights.
07:27Still others wanted to reshape the regional balance of power among Pakistan, India, Iran, and Russia.
07:32We cannot be world police.
07:35We can't.
07:37We can give aid.
07:38We can do all that shit, but we're not world police.
07:43We don't have to be complete isolationists, but we also don't have to be the world police.
07:48The U.S. military commanders struggled to articulate who they were fighting, let alone why.
07:54Was Al-Qaeda the enemy or the Taliban?
07:56Was Pakistan a friend or an adversary?
07:58What about the Islamic State and the bewildering array of foreign jihadists, let alone warlords, on the CIA's payroll?
08:06According to the documents, the U.S. government never settled on an answer.
08:10As a result, in the field, U.S. troops often couldn't tell friend from foe.
08:16Very cool.
08:18Very normal.
08:19They thought I was going to come to them with a map to show them where the good guys and
08:23bad guys live.
08:24It took several conversations for them to understand that I did not have information in my hands.
08:30They just kept asking, but who are the bad guys?
08:33Where are they?
08:34As commanders-in-chief, Bush, Obama, and Trump all promised the public the same thing.
08:40That they would avoid falling into the trap of nation-building in Afghanistan.
08:45Yeah, that's funny.
08:46It's funny how as soon as they all get into office, that changes.
08:49Look at this shit.
08:51Someone's dad.
08:53Someone's brother.
08:55Someone's husband.
08:57Someone's son.
08:59Sad!
09:00And again, the media is not talking about it at all.
09:02Do you want to know why the media is not talking about it?
09:04It's because, just like the Pentagon Papers, which is something that I'll be talking about eventually when I make my
09:10video about Mike Gravel,
09:11just like the Pentagon Papers, the media were probably complicit because war brings in the money, brings in the clicks.
09:20What's going on in Afghanistan?
09:22Whoa!
09:23War!
09:24Crazy!
09:25And now, here's a commercial from the health insurance industry.
09:30Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun
09:33-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
09:33Hell world!
09:35Look at this quote.
09:36This is what they said in public.
09:38Are we losing this war?
09:39Absolutely no way.
09:40Can the enemy win it?
09:42Absolutely no way.
09:43We need to get out of Afghanistan.
09:45We need to stop with the regime change as shit.
09:48The neocons and the neolibs need to be deported.
09:53This, I feel like this just isn't going to change.
09:55All this does is create more terrorists.
10:00There are kids right now in Afghanistan and all these other places who see the U.S. coming in and
10:07destroying shit.
10:10And then they're told, these are the bad guys.
10:12Look what they're doing to your home.
10:14And then they get radicalized.
10:18And a really good quote.
10:21If you want to stop terrorism, stop participating in it.
10:26So, what do we do?
10:28Who is held accountable for this?
10:30Who needs to get on camera on every single news station and apologize to the American people?
10:39It's not a Democrat thing or Republican thing.
10:41I have a feeling that's why it's not being covered a lot.
10:44It's because, like I said, one, the media is complicit, as they always are.
10:49And two, it's nonpartisan.
10:51There's no...
10:54Whoa, the Democrats did a crazy thing and they so messed up.
10:58Whoa, the Democrats are so corrupt.
11:00Whoa, the Republicans, they did a crazy thing.
11:04Whoa, the Republicans are so corrupt.
11:06And I can't believe I only found out about this like two days ago.
11:08That's the crazy part.
11:09I posted a meme on Twitter.
11:13And people were like, wait, what?
11:15What are you...
11:15What?
11:16That happened?
11:17I didn't hear anything about that.
11:18This is the first time I'm hearing about it.
11:19What are you talking about?
11:21Wait, when did this happen?
11:22Happened like last week.
11:24Nobody's hearing about it.
11:25Nobody's talking about it.
11:27I follow so many content creators and like political commentators.
11:33Only a few are talking about it.
11:34This should be what everyone is talking about, but they're not.
11:38I'm so glad I have this channel now, by the way.
11:41Because I remember when I just had like shoe on head and shoe on...
11:44And shoe in skeptic.
11:46People were like, why don't you talk about important issues?
11:48I'm just like, oh, I'm an entertainer.
11:49Like, I'm not here to talk about depressing shit.
11:52Now I have a channel to talk about depressing shit on.
11:55Fun!
11:56So yeah.
11:58That was that video, I guess.
12:00I'm very sorry.
12:01Link to everything down below if you want to read more about it.
12:04Link to videos about it that have more information than just me going,
12:09this is terrible and bad and me being angry.
12:13But I just wanted to get this out there because a lot of my followers don't know about it.
12:19And yeah.
12:20So links down below to other information about this.
12:24Just...
12:24Doomer-pilled.
12:25you got amy. 121.
12:25Dooms with
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