Wikileaks released 90 thousand pages of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan. The documents are suspected of being leaked by Pfc Bradley. What’s in the documents? First off these documents prove that the United States military has been white washing the war from the beginning.
They have covered up civilian causalities; they covered up successful insurgent attacks and down played their significant; They covered up the violent criminality of their security forces that we have created who are praying on the civilian population; which is directly responsible for turning civilian cooperation in Afghanistan against us.
The Obama administration wants us to think that things are different because he took office. The documents covered a period of time between January 2004 and December 2009. Marja was supposed to be the poster child for the new surge and Obama’s new war strategy. But it is a failure; former commander of the war General McCrystal called Afghanistan in general a bleeding ulcer. There are 2 Marine battalions who have are in Marja that have been pined down for mounts. Marines have been unable to bring security to Marja. The roads are still so contaminated with I.E.D’s and roadside bombs that the roads are unusual. The military in Marja are engaging in contact fire fighting with the enemy almost everyday, and that’s only on the military side. The political side is much worse!
This was supposed to be a government in a box. It was just supposed to role up, open up and start to work. This was the center peace for the counter insurgency strategy. The marines would come in and clear the way, then we would come in with a civil administration and fill the gap that had been created. The entire Government in a box failed to deploy. Everyone from the mayor down to the person in charge of sanitation were suppose to assembled in Kabul and go to Marja. No one except the Mayer has come to Marja. The major is a man by the name of Haji Zahir. Haji Zahir is an Afghanistan expatriate that lived in Germany. He went to jail for 5 years in Germany for attempted murder. This is the man that we have selected to be mayor of Marja. Haji Zahir’s role right now is simply to be haloed into Maja for meetings and be haloed out after words when the meeting is over.
There are reports of the Afghanistan security forces getting into firefights over turf with the Afghanistan police. But its even more complicated then that. It’s not just the police against the army. It’s the police, the army and dozen other types of armed forces organized around different loyalties. The Shinwari in eastern Afghanistan were given a million dollars in aid because they said they were going to help fight the Taliban. But after they received the aid they turned around and uses what we gave them to depose the governor of that province. The Afgan public protection forces are local militias who have differing loyalties; there are warlords, like General Dostum, in Afghanistan who operate under totally different terms then anyone else. General Dostum has just become the Chief of Staff of their army. Afghanistan is a complete mess! We are arming everyone who "says" their going to fight the taliban, and they all have different allegiances.
Earlier this year in the Nangarhar province special forces hit a farmhouse. The U.S military press release said that in that raid 5 taliban were killed and 2 were captured. They had hit a farming family and everyone was dead, from the father down to the 7-year-old son. Everyone in the town swear that that the family that was killed were just farmers. The two that were taken were also farmers in that family. A riot ensued around the farmer’s innocence. The town’s people marched down to the police station and tried to burn it down. The day after the riot our military released the two farmers that had been captured. The military released them without comment, charges filed, or an explanation.
They have covered up civilian causalities; they covered up successful insurgent attacks and down played their significant; They covered up the violent criminality of their security forces that we have created who are praying on the civilian population; which is directly responsible for turning civilian cooperation in Afghanistan against us.
These documents are being downplayed by the administration as if they are not important because there is nothing new and also that they are based on out dated documents that have no bearing on current events. The documents were from 2004 to 2009. Its 2010, I’m sorry but if we consider 2004 to 2009 a long time ago then we have some serious problems. What is the statuette on killing innocent people and covering up a failure costing the U.S taxpayers trillions? What needs to be touted is that these document are hard proof that what the progressives have been saying about this war is true; the talk about dead Afghani civilians and the impossibility of uncorrupting that region isn’t just liberal banter. We are in the right when we say that this war needs to come to an end for numerous reasons. It’s not a republican or democrat thing, it’s an ethical issue.
I think the biggest difference between the Vietnam War and our current wars is public relations. The current war has way better PR then did Vietnam. Our solders and marines disserve our respect no matter what war they are fighting because they are the guardians of our freedom. But now we have to protect our guardians from fighting another un-winnable and fruitless war. Our Military men and women don’t have a voice, so we have to be it for them!
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