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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis: ‘I had to speak out – lives are at stake’
Soldier wrote detailed report claiming US generals have so distorted the truth the truth has become unrecognizableI am how do you say it? persona non grata, said Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis, as he sat sipping a coffee and eating a chocolate sundae in a shopping mall, just a subway stop from the Pentagon.
The career soldier is now a black sheep at the giant defence department building where he still works. The reason was his extraordinarily brave decision to accuse Americas military top brass of lying about the war in Afghanistan. When he went public in the New York Times, he was acclaimed as a hero for speaking out about a war that many Americans feel has gone horribly awry. Later this month he will receive a Ridenhour prize, an award given to whistleblowers that is named after the Vietnam war soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre.
Davis believes people are not being told the truth and said so in a detailed report that he wrote after returning from his second tour of duty in the country. He had been rocketed, mortared and had stepped on an improvised explosive device that failed to explode. Soldiers he had met were killed and he was certain that a bloody disaster was unfolding. So he spoke out. Its like I see in slow motion men dying for nothing and I cant stop it, he said. It is consuming me from the inside. It is eating me alive.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/14/afghan-war-whistleblower-daniel-davis-i-had-to-speak-out-%e2%80%93-lives-are-at-stake/
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Afghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis: ‘I had to speak out – lives are at stake’ (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Apr 2012
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yellerpup
(12,253 posts)1. Of course the Afghan officer laughed in his face.
All Afghans know that we must leave and that they, and only they, will be dealing with the Taliban after we are gone. They are all part of the same organism. We went there to shut down Osama, and Osama has been shut down. If they want to start training recruits again, I don't see why we can't patrol them with drones and destroy them when they do pop up. Or, is that too easy?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)2. We lost. Get out. Get over it.