Seems more like the problem is: I only want to hear  and mention MY TRUTH
If I don't like the reports, they are just not true or have no meaning.
Did that happen to any reports before 9/11?

Pentagon report on Afghanistan criticizes war strategy: report
Sun Apr 4, 4:36 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A retired army colonel commissioned by the Pentagon to
examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the conflict created conditions
that have given "warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on
life."

Retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, who served in the Army Special Forces
for more than 20 years, wrote in a military analysis he gave to the
Pentagon in January that the US failed to adapt to new conditions created
by the Taliban's collapse, The New Yorker magazine reported.

"The failure to adjust US operations in line with the post-Taliban change
in theater conditions cost the United States some of the fruits of victory
and imposed additional, avoidable humanitarian and stability costs on
Afghanistan," Rothstein wrote in the report.

"Indeed, the war's inadvertent effects may be more significant than we
think."

The military should have used Special Forces to adapt to new conditions,
Rothstein wrote.

The war "effectively destroyed the Taliban but has been significantly less
successful at being able to achieve the primary policy goal of ensuring
that al Qaeda could no longer operate in Afghanistan," he wrote.

The Pentagon returned the report to Rothstein with a request he cut it
drastically and soften his conclusions, the magazine reported.

"There may be a kernel of truth in there, but our experts found the study
rambling and not terribly informative," Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense Joseph Collins told The New Yorker.




On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:39:20 -0500, Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Tim and Brice,
>
>there is a another great article.
>Seems the Bush-adminstration is withholding the information.
>Could it be, that Mr. Clarke was telling the truth or a truth?
>At least it is worrying for me, that the Bush adminstration keeps the
>information to themself and release only the part, that they think you
>should receive as "the truth".
>Could it be, that they are hiding mistakes? I know, they have not made
>any. ;-)
>
>What's your opinion on that?
>
>------------
>
>Michael -
>
>I think Mr. Clarke wants to sell a book, he is willing to use THE
>TRUTH to do that.  He is also willing to use A TRUTH to do that.
>He is also willing to use OTHER THAN THE TRUTH to do that.  In fact
>he is flexible enough to ANY PERMUTATION OF THE TRUTH to sell the
>book.
>
>What I am hearing is we should have use pre-emptive action in and
>on Afghanistan to prevent 9-11, but it was a mistake to do this
>very thing in Iraq.  No matter what we would have done, there would
>have been armchair Generals to critique' whatever action we took
>in between sips of beer.
>
>Saddam Hussein was a bad guy and the world is a better place without
>him loose.  The world is a better place without his psycopath sons
>loose too.
>
>I hope we can establish a stable and humane government in Iraq.  It
>will be a hard job, and even harder with those who want to sabotage
>the process to their own advantage.
>
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