2012-02-16

The War In Afghanistan: Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War "Success" Story!


Vatic Note:  This is a very perfect example of the plan laid out by many that we have posted on this blog whereby, actions done by the "shadow Government" and its dual citizens are a result of planning and why they do not admit the problems they have in Afghanistan or anywhere else for that matter.  Its because all of this is intentional.   Remember,  The United States is suppose to lose this next third world war just like McCain was suppose to lose the election to Obama and we said that during the primaries in 2008. 

This is all planned to destroy the military readiness of our troops and our military including all weapons systems EXCEPT THOSE TO BE USED ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC such as the very well functioning Drones, 30,000 of them,  used to monitor, track, and who knows,  maybe even assassinate American citizens.  Whistle blowers have explained this several different times. 

Also lets look at why this info below has gotten out?   Because in the realm of the Satanic, its critically part of the convenant with satan that those committing evil acts must disclose them either in advance or while in progress to give the victims an opportunity to do something about it.   I believe this is one of those disclosures or this man would be dead and he also supports the "controllers" position that there are many in the military and government who are not sold out and are unhappy with what is going on.  

Well,  given all the removals of key personnel in the military since 2005, its hard to believe there is hardly anyone left on our side who are in key positions to affect policy.  In fact recently the military is doing lay offs of navy personnel in service under 14 years.   Makes sense, they have little to lose at that level of service if pushed to choose sides.  They are no where near retirement, nor do they have serious rank yet with the pay that goes with it.   Can 't count on them to betray their nation.   The only reason we are even wasting time there is to protect the poppy fields and the routes to Russia for distribution in order to sedate their population like they did to us here in the US.  It works and Russia is very unhappy about it.  (Not Putin, he is part of the cabal, just like the other western leaders are today, all traitors to their nations). It really is time for the people of the globe to come together and route these cretins from their governments.  We all know who they are and from their corporations as well as banking,  etc. 

 

The War In Afghanistan: Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War "Success" Story!

http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2012/02/war-in-afghanistan-army-officers-leaked.html
by Garth Porter,  Northern TruthSeeker
December 13, 2012


NT Note:   For the last few years, I had been putting up reports about how the criminal war in Afghanistan was lost, and that we all should have been demanding an immediate withdrawal of all NATO and US forces immediately...

Well, it does seem now that the criminals in the US Government, along with the criminals behind NATO themselves, are finally pulling their troops out of war torn and destroyed Afghanistan, and are trying to sell the war to their public at home that it was a "success"!   The truth is that the Afghanistan war was a dismal failure that has bled the US and NATO of trillions of dollars and has cost the lives of thousands of troops....

To show how badly the war in Afghanistan was a total defeat for the US and NATO, I want to turn to a new report from the online site: Dissident Voice, at www.dissidentvoice.org, written by Gareth Porter.  It is entitled: "Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story",  and it shows again how the general public is being lied to by governments who are calling the war in Afghanistan a "success", when in fact it is both a dismal defeat and that the Taliban, rather than being defeated, are set to triumphantly take over Afghanistan and restore themselves back into control over the nation in much the same way that they did prior to the US/NATO attacks of 2001!    Here is that article, and I do have some of my own comments to follow:


Army Officer’s Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story

IPS — An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010.
In the 84-page unclassified report, Davis, who returned last fall after his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, attacks the credibility of claims by senior military leaders that the U.S.-NATO war strategy has succeeded in weakening the Taliban insurgent forces and in building Afghan security forces capable of taking primary responsibility for security in the future.
The report, which Davis had submitted to the Army in January for clearance to make it public, was posted on the website of Rolling Stone magazine by journalist Michael Hastings Friday. In a blog for the magazine, Hastings reported that “officials familiar with the situation” had said the Pentagon was “refusing” to release the report, but that it had been making the rounds within the U.S. government, including the White House.
Hastings wrote that he had obtained it from a U.S. government official.
Contacted by IPS Friday, Davis would not comment on the publication of the report or its contents.
Writing that he is “no Wikileaks guy Part II”, Davis reveals no classified information in the report. But he has given a classified version of the report, which cites and quotes from dozens of classified documents, to several members of the House and Senate, including both Democrats and Republicans.
“If the public had access to the classified reports,” Davis writes, “they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is true behind the scenes.”
Davis is in a unique position to assess the real situation on the ground in Afghanistan. As a staff officer of the “Rapid Equipping Force”, he traveled more than 9,000 miles to every area where U.S. troop presence was significant and had conversations with more than 250 U.S. soldiers, from privates to division commanders.
The report takes aim at the March 2011 Congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus, then the top commander in Afghanistan, and the Defence Department’s April 2011 Report to Congress as either “misleading, significantly skewed or completely inaccurate”.
Davis attacks the claim in both the Petraeus testimony and the DOD report that U.S. and NATO forces had “arrested the insurgents’ momentum” and “reversed it in a number of important areas”.
That claim is belied, Davis argues, by the fact that the number of insurgent attacks, the number of IEDs found and detonated and the number of U.S. troops killed and wounded have all continued to mount since 2009, the last year before the addition of 30,000 U.S. troops and 10,000 NATO troops.
Davis notes that Petraeus and other senior officials of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the U.S.-NATO command in Afghanistan, have boasted of having killed and captured thousands of insurgent leaders and rank and file soldiers, cut insurgent supply routes and found large numbers of weapons caches as well as depriving the insurgents of their main bases of operation since spring 2010.
If these claims were accurate measures of success, Davis writes, after the Taliban had been driven out of their strongholds, “there ought to have been a reduction in violence not a continual, unbroken string of increases.”
In fact, Davis writes, Taliban attacks “continued to rise at almost the same rate it had risen since 2005 all the way through the summer of 2011″ and remained “well above 2009 levels in the second half of 2011″ even though it leveled off or dropped slightly in some places.
Davis notes that total attacks, total number of IEDs and total U.S. casualties in 2011 were 82 percent, 113 percent and 164 percent higher, respectively, than the figures for 2009, the last year before the surge of 30,000 troops. The annual number of U.S. dead and wounded increased from 1,764 in 2009 to 4,662 in 2011.
The veteran Army officer quotes Congressional testimony by Adm. Mike Mullen December 2, 2009 as citing a lesser increase in Taliban attacks in 2009 of 60 percent over the 2008 level as a rationale for a significant increase in U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan, implying that the war was being lost.
Davis leaves no doubt about his overall assessment that the U.S. war effort has failed. “Even a cursory observation of key classified reports and metrics,” Davis concludes, “leads overwhelmingly to the conclusion that over the past two years, despite the surge of 30,000 American Soldiers, the insurgent force has gained strength….”
Davis is also scathing in his assessment of the Afghan army and police who have been described as constantly improving and on their way to taking responsibility for fighting the insurgents.
“What I saw first-hand, in virtually every circumstance,” writes Davis, “was a barely functioning organization – often cooperating with the insurgent enemy….”
Both in his longer report and in an article for Armed Forces Journal published online February 5, Davis recounts his experience at an Afghan National Police station in Kunar province in January 2011. Arriving two hours after a Taliban attack on the station, Davis asked the police captain whether he had sent out patrols to find the insurgents.
After the question had been conveyed by the interpreter, Davis recalls, “The captain’s head wheeled around, looking first at the interpreter and turning to me with an incredulous expression. Then he laughed.”
“No! We don’t go after them,” he quotes the captain as saying. “That would be dangerous!”
According to Davis, U.S. troops who work with Afghan policemen in that province say they “rarely leave the cover of the checkpoints”, allowing the Taliban to “literally run free”.
Describing the overall situation, Davis writes, “(I)n a number of high profile mission opportunities over the past 11 months the ANA (Afghan National Army) and ANP (Afghan National Police) have numerous times run from the battle, run from rumors, or made secret deals with the Taliban.”
The draft posted online notes after that statement that the classified version of the paper has been “redacted”, indicating that Davis provides further details about those “secret deals” in the classified version.
The Army dissenter calls on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to “conduct a bi-partisan investigation into the various charges of deception or dishonesty in this report….” He urges that such a hearing include testimony not only from senior military officials but from mid- and senior-level intelligence analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies.
Both Senate and House Armed Services Committees have exhibited little or no interest in probing behind the official claims of success in Afghanistan. That passive role reflects what many political observers, including some members of Congress, see as cozy relationships among most committee members, military leaders, Pentagon officials and major military contractors.
It remains to be seen whether Davis’s success in raising the issue of misleading claims of success in a front-page New York Times story February 6 and in subsequent television appearances will bring pressure on those committees from other members to hold hearings on whether senior military officials are telling the truth about the situation in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military leadership in Afghanistan is brushing off Davis’s critique as having no importance. During a briefing in which he claimed continued steady progress in Afghanistan, Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, deputy commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, dismissed the Davis report as “one person’s view of this”.
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book,Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, was published in 2006. Read other articles by Gareth.




NTS Notes:  When the hell will people learn?   I tried for years to convey the message that the war in Afghanistan was lost, and that we were in there for one purpose and one purpose only...Which was to secure the growth, harvesting, and shipping of Afghanistan Opium for the criminal Rothschild controlled drug lords for markets around the world...  It was these same Rothschild drug lords that demanded their American and NATO nation slaves to go into Afghanistan in 2001 after the Taliban began to wipe out the Afghan poppy fields in the first place,  to prevent their destruction and to put them back into full production for their personal greedy profits!


What the war in Afghanistan is readers, is just another Vietnam war, and the result is much the same... The US losing the war, having thousands of US soldiers dead or maimed, and spending some 2 TRILLION dollars in this latest lost cause that will only help to shatter the US economy at home...


The war in Afghanistan is officially lost, and sadly only now are the troops finally coming home....


More to come


NTS
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1 comment:

American Action Report said...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. During the Vietnamization phase of the Vietnam War, navy craft were done up in tip-top shape and handed to the RVN pronounced Arvin) navy. The RVNs stripped and sold everything of value, including weapons and ammo, and swore up and down that that was the way they'd received them. Before we turned over the YOG-71 to the RVNs, we took photos of everything.
The ARVNs (army) were just as corrupt.
Guess what? The Chinese navy did the same thing during the early 1890s, when they received European ships. That's the main reason they lost the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95: They were essentially unarmed.
Lao Tze hit the nail on the head 2,500 years ago: "When the government is corrupt, it filters down and the people become corrupt."
The U.S. is backing a corrupt regime in Afghanistan. We're reaping corrupt results. No sane citizen of Afghanistan is willing to die for a government full of crooks.
It's only a matter of time before American servicemen decide that they're not going to die to satisfy the war industry's greed for gold, oil, and drugs.