The Washington Post has obtained access to the confidential statements, in which the generals criticizing the war in Afghanistan.

American politicians and military personnel have in 18 years misled the public about the war in Afghanistan.

This writes the american newspaper the Washington Post.

the Newspaper has gained access to 2000 pages of previously withheld documents. It happened after a three year long legal fights about the validity of the extradition.

the Documents contain interviews with more than 400 generals, advisers, diplomats and afghan officials, who have played a direct role in the war.

They have been made by an american authority, who has prepared a confidential study of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history.

According to The Washington Post shows the documents that successive u.s. governments have failed to tell the truth about the 18 year long war.

- instead, they come with rosy statements, as they knew was wrong, and they have concealed unmistakable evidence that the war was impossible to win, writes the newspaper.

the interviewed persons provide in the study a "unbridled criticism" of what they think has gone wrong in Afghanistan, because they assumed that their opinions would not be published.

The american officials recognize that their krigsstrategier were full of fatal errors, and that Washington wasted huge sums of money to try to make Afghanistan a modern nation, writes The Washington Post.

for Example, says a senior american general in his interview:

We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We knew not what we did.

- If the american people knew the extent of dysfunktionen, he continues and refers to the many lives that war has cost.

- Who will say out loud, it was in vain?

Since 2001, AMERICA has had more than 775.000 u.s. soldiers deployed to Afghanistan.

2300 american soldiers have lost their lives in the war. And more than 20,000 have been wounded in combat, according to figures from the UNITED states department of defense.

the UNITED states are negotiating with Taliban in the hope of being able to draw the remaining of 13,000 american soldiers out of Afghanistan.

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