Barack Obama is pictured in October 2015 making a statement on Afghanistan, and announcing that troops would remain in the country after he left office - despite his declaration less than a year previously that the war was over
* Barack Obama has been accused in a new book of misleading the public about Afghanistan
* The authors of The Afghanistan Papers, serialized in The Washington Post, say that Obama's public declarations contrasted with behind-the-scenes reality
* Obama had sent a 'surge' of 100,000 troops into the country from 2009-11 * On December 28, 2014, Obama said the war was officially over after 13 years
* Author Craig Whitlock described the 'baldfaced' declaration as 'among the most egregious deceptions and lies that U.S. leaders spread during two decades of warfare'
* He said that the deaths of U.S. troops in the country continued unabated; bombings and combat missions continued
* Added that by the end of 2015 the pretense of ending the war had been abandoned
* In October 2015 Obama told the nation that at least 5,500 troops would remain in Afghanistan after he left office in January 2017
Barack Obama misled the country about ending the war in Afghanistan, according to a scathing new book charting 20 years of U.S. involvement in the country.
Craig Whitlock, author of The Afghanistan Papers, said that Obama was deeply misguided when, in December 2014, he declared that the war was over.
He said that the 'baldfaced' declaration ranked as 'among the most egregious deceptions and lies that U.S. leaders spread during two decades of warfare.'
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Update: Obama lied to Americans about withdrawal from Afghanistan: book (FOX News)
WNU Editor: President Obama was not the only one who was less than truthful when it came to Afghanistan. I still remember the media coverage on the pressure that the Pentagon was putting on newly elected President Obama in 2009 to deploy 100,000 soldiers to Afghanistan. He signed off on it, but the war only escalated and we are where we are today.
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wasn't there a president after Obvama? I seem top recall some guy who was making a deal with the Taliban
"I wish Joe Biden wouldn't use September 11 as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons. First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and way too long," Trump said, adding: "September 11 represents a very sad event and period for our Country and should remain a day of reflection and remembrance honoring those great souls we lost."
Trump is the latest former commander in chief to weigh in on Biden's plan, with both former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama having spoken to Biden ahead of his announcement last week. Obama praised Biden's decision to end the nearly 20-year war, which has spanned all four administrations.
Trump's statement earned a pointed rebuke from one of his fiercest allies, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who tweeted Sunday evening: "I could not disagree more with former President Trump regarding his support for President Biden's withdrawal of all forces from Afghanistan against sound military advice."
"the Pentagon was putting on newly elected President Obama in 2009 to deploy 100,000 soldiers to Afghanistan. He signed off on it, but the war only escalated and we are where we are today."
Trolling much? Escalated? The enemy met force with force, because they were able to do so. When the US applied more force the Taliban could fold, go home and wait us out or meet us with increased force.
When the Allies landed at D Day, they merely escalated the war. Escalating is one of those words that is heavily freighted with meaning. To escalate is seen as bad by many if not most people. After the Allies escalated the European Theater by landing troops the Germans sent panzer division to Normandy and Allied casualties increased.
If Joe Biden had been president he would not have withdrawn or increased troops in the European theater, but merely hung on in Italy. Joe is bright, He would not have escalated, if he had been president in 1944!
I never took claims that we had "won" in Afghanistan seriously. Such statements were/are designed to be political statements and easily seen through by those who were/are actually paying attention.
Of course the spin will be that the war was "won" and Trump lost it. Since this is going to be the messaging, Obama was not "less than truthful." He was fully truthful and Trump messed it all up.
PhD physicist Ash Carter will lie rather than take a haircut.
Bposter, agreed.. but the problem is that if you make lying the standard, society breaks down
It's a known fact because once you accept one lie as a society, eg women are 100% the same as men, people recognize they can get away with lying and use it as weapon to get power, because disagreeing and pointing out lies has been purposefully penalized by the left, so that normal people don't want to enter the arena.
And the left does it because they're authoritarian and they need to get their noses broken to realise they are going to far.. that's the only thing stopping them now as courts looked away even during the disputed election. More than 45%believed the election was stolen, that's historic and the courts instead of listening to evidence did what the left demanded under threat of violence
You only have a democracy if both sides follow the law. One does not and must be reigned in at all levels and severely punished
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