The Price of Propaganda in Afghanistan
The Price of Propaganda in Afghanistan
The war in Iraq is not the only issue on which President Bush’s words diverge wildly from reality. It’s been well over a year since President Bush summarily announced that the Taliban had been “put out of business forever.” It’s been well over a year since President Bush addressed an assemblage of military personnel and their families, telling them that “the Taliban is history.” He repeatedly pushes the notion that “Afghanistan is a world away from the nightmare of the Taliban.”
His continued mischaracterizations of our half-forgotten war are absolutely maddening when one reads today’s story on how U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan have been caught completely off guard:
When Spec. Nick Conlon and the other members of his infantry battalion learned they would be deployed to the Afghan province of Zabol this spring, many expected their worst enemy to be boredom. In preparation, Conlon stocked up on more than 20 DVDs, such as “Alien vs. Predator,” “X-Men” and “Daredevil.”
But in the three months since the battalion set up camp in this isolated, mountainous region of southeastern Afghanistan, Conlon has not had time to watch a single movie. Instead, the battalion has found itself at the center of a heated though somewhat forgotten war that is still underway 3 1/2 years after the extremist Taliban militia was ousted from power.
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“I thought the Taliban had fallen,” Conlon marveled recently. “I thought this was going to be a peacekeeping mission.”
Yes, the American people back at home deserve the truth. But for our soldiers on the front lines, it is an issue of life or death.
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This is really sad. But if someone goes into a war zone, they should know its going to be dangerous.
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:54 amTrue. But there are different levels of danger. This is still not acceptable conduct by our commander in chief.
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:04 pmAnd where did Bush get the idea that all was well in Afghanistan? From that lying partisan SOB, Tommy Franks. Who also had the war plan with enough troops for Iraq, earning a presidential medal of freedom. Franks now sits in Texas collecting book royalty checks while his former underlings have experiences like the above.
June 22nd, 2005 at 1:09 pmIsn’t this the place they were supposed to find the Bush Family business partner’s son, Osama bin Laden?
Afterall, why let the 10th Mountain Division capture Osama when the Pakistanis and Afghanis armies could do the job? And why not siphon off a cool $100M+ to start planning an invasion of Iraq?
Its not surprising that BushCo lies about what’s really taking place in Afghanistan. Very sad. But not surprising.
June 22nd, 2005 at 1:38 pmIsn’t this the way a young Julius Caesar reported the state of his early military endeavors?
June 22nd, 2005 at 4:16 pmI’ve read many articles about the Taliban and never for a moment thought that all was well in Afhganistan.
The media does slip in troop loss in Afghanistan but it’s buried in an Iraq story.
We are still losing soldiers in Afghanistan just not at the rate as those in Iraq.
In addition to the Taliban, the poppy industry is very much alive and well.
June 22nd, 2005 at 5:40 pmPoppy is 80% of Afghanistans gross national product.
They provide heroine to America’s streets every single day, this is not news.
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