R. Scott Pert<p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ICUMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICUMI</span></a> - Washington Post: Top US officials repeatedly misled public about Afghanistan War <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldNews</span></a></p><p>> Confidential documents obtained by The Washington Post reveal that top <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> officials misled the American public about the war in <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> in order to conceal doubts about the likelihood that the US could be successful in the nearly 20-year effort since its earliest days, the paper reported in a major investigation on Monday.<br> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/washington-post-afghanistan-war-investigation/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/wa</span><span class="invisible">shington-post-afghanistan-war-investigation/index.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Taliban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taliban</span></a></p>