Here is how the Pentagon publicly described the situation in Iraq in an email newsletter sent out on Monday:
Here’s how the Pentagon described the situation in Iraq in a classified briefing conducted just days earlier, according to a report in the New York Times. From a secret slide called “Index of Civil Conflict”:


Americans deserve to be told the truth about what’s going on in Iraq.
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