Hiding the truth
Yesterday, I wrote about an Afghan major who gunned down eight Americans in cold blood. Today, the USAToday writes that the Obama Administration and the Department of Defense will no longer keep public statistics on American trainers who were killed by their students;
Since 2005, more than 50 troops had been killed and 48 wounded by Afghan troops, according to data released before the policy changed and USA TODAY research. In 2011, Afghan troops killed at least 13 ISAF troops.
I guess whether withdrawal from Afghanistan is realistic or not is the reason they’d begin to hide this evidence from the public. In other words, withdrawal is now the over-arching goal and not success.
President Obama has said he intends to hand off security responsibility to the Afghan government in 2014. NATO forces train Afghans to fill the ranks of the country’s military and police forces to keep the Taliban insurgency from regaining power.
So who wants to be the last to die for a lie?
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
In other words its Vietnam all over again? I bet there’s even talk of body counts
CPT Drew Russell was murdered by an ANA SGT on 8 OCT 2011. The official release said he was killed by RPG fire. Not so, he was gunned down with a M-16 while standing in our TAC inside an ANA compound. Also killed was CPT Joshua Lawernce in the same incident by the same ANA SGT. Two other Soldiers were wounded in the SAF attack. An RPG was fired at another group of Soldiers just prior to the SAF attack in the same vicinity causing WIAs. Nothing was ever said in the news about it.
Do not worry, Berliners. The enemy forces have not invaded. They are not taking ground that we have liberated for the Third Reich. You are not in danger of seeing Americans or the British or the Russians in your fair city. Just ignore all those news reports and don’t listen to the artillery fire from just outside the city. We are safe…
NUTS!