Chaos at Afghanistan's Kabul airport as Taliban take over country

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Republicans blame Biden for the US's chaotic withdrawal but are glossing over how Trump's Taliban deal set up the disaster

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File

 

• A number of GOP lawmakers slammed Biden's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• McConnell said Biden was to blame for Taliban forces taking over the country.
• The deal to remove US troops from the country was negotiated under Trump.

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This is what the article said. What he posted is what some Repbublican idiot was quoted as saying.

A number of congressional Republicans are criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan amid desperate scenes of Afghans scrambling to get on airplanes out of the country.

Yet the decision to leave the country was originally negotiated under President Donald Trump and allowed the Taliban to strengthen their position against the US-backed government — a circumstance most Republicans skirted around in their criticism.

You will never climb out of being enslaved to the Democratic Party. Trump did it….. feel better?

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File

 

• A number of GOP lawmakers slammed Biden's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• McConnell said Biden was to blame for Taliban forces taking over the country.
• The deal to remove US troops from the country was negotiated under Trump.

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This is what the article said. What he posted is what some Repbublican idiot was quoted as saying.

A number of congressional Republicans are criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan amid desperate scenes of Afghans scrambling to get on airplanes out of the country.

Yet the decision to leave the country was originally negotiated under President Donald Trump and allowed the Taliban to strengthen their position against the US-backed government — a circumstance most Republicans skirted around in their criticism.

Big Girl.....you seem to suggest Republicans did not want to leave Afghanistan. Trump did set up the deal. If Biden didn't like the deal, he could of renegotiated.....or hell, he could of did the opposite like he does with all other Trump policies.....but he didn't.  The intelligence was faulty and the method was faulty.  I'm no military expert, but maybe they should of got the citizens and Afgan's out BEFORE the military.......

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• A number of GOP lawmakers slammed Biden's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• McConnell said Biden was to blame for Taliban forces taking over the country.
• The deal to remove US troops from the country was negotiated under Trump.

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A number of congressional Republicans are criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan amid desperate scenes of Afghans scrambling to get on airplanes out of the country.

Yet the decision to leave the country was originally negotiated under President Donald Trump and allowed the Taliban to strengthen their position against the US-backed government — a circumstance most Republicans skirted around in their criticism.

First of all, this fiasco is 100% owned by Joebama.  The President, Vice President and Press secretary are all on vacation while this disaster was happening.  If this was happening while Trump was president, can you imagine the field day the press would have?!

I saw him say this last night on TV:  From the article:  "“I told him (Taliban leader) up front, I said, “Look, up front, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before, a force so great you won’t even believe it,’” Trump said.  "If anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else we will hit you w/ a force that no country has ever been hit w/ before. A force so great you won't even believe it. And your village, and we know where it is, and I named it, will be the first one.""  You can believe Joebama NEVER said anything like this!! 

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An estimated 88 BILLION in weapons and advanced equipment left behind.   

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An estimated 88 BILLION in weapons and advanced equipment left behind.   

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[Reagan]

29 minutes ago, Greezy said:

An estimated 88 BILLION in weapons and advanced equipment left behind.   

When one leads from behind, also like yobama did, with an America last philosophy, like yobama did also, then nothing good comes of it.

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3 minutes ago, Reagan said:

When one leads from behind, also like yobama did, with an America last philosophy, like yobama did also, then nothing good comes of it.

"Revenge as a strategy" is just a quote I heard someone say.  Too focused on making orange man look bad.

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1 hour ago, Reagan said:

When one leads from behind, also like yobama did, with an America last philosophy, like yobama did also, then nothing good comes of it.

So biden loads up the Taliban with billions in weaponry and other military gear, and obama loaded up the Iranians with pallets of cold hard cash.  The last two Dim potus are true idiots.  Guess they learned from each other.

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Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tubervile slammed members of the left-wing "Squad" for being "closed-mouthed" about protecting women in Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the country. 

"I have not heard one word from all of these women in ‘The Squad’ in Congress saying anything about protecting the women of Afghanistan. You know, they’re closed-mouthed right now. It doesn’t fill their narrative. People ought to be sick of this. They really should be. But we’ll work through this," Tuberville said Tuesday during a radio interview on "The Jeff Poor Show." 

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ITT - bunch of brainwashed sheep arguing over which ancient dinosaur politician to blame. 

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17 minutes ago, InMAGAWeTrust said:

ITT - bunch of brainwashed sheep arguing over which ancient dinosaur politician to blame. 

Do you ever contribute anything of substance or do you just regurgitate word memes?

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29 minutes ago, Greezy said:

Do you ever contribute anything of substance or do you just regurgitate word memes?

You nailed it.  He has to do that to keep from getting banned again.

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Taliban will be allowed to STAY on Twitter - as long as they don't 'glorify violence' - while ex-president Trump is still banned!

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Do you ever contribute anything of substance or do you just regurgitate word memes?

Fairly useless on here as far as debating goes.

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Biden admits what many of us already knew, he's not capable of doing this job.  The only folks happier than the fools that voted for him that he's President are the Taliban.

 

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Matters continue to get worse for President Biden as critics on both sides of the aisle panned the comments he made to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about his administration's turbulent Afghan withdrawal. 

Just moments after Biden walked away from the White House podium without taking questions following an address focused on the coronavirus, ABC News released clips from the sitdown taped Wednesday afternoon and more of the interview aired on "World News Tonight."

Stephanopoulos pressed Biden if he thought the withdrawal could have been "handled better in any way."

"No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens," Biden said.

"So for you, that was always priced in the decision?" Stephanopoulos followed.

"Yes," Biden answered. 

"This is a presidency-defining clip. And it’s really bad," Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman reacted.

"This is such a slap in the face to the thousands of Americans still in Afghanistan. He had no plan, he has no urgency, and he won’t take responsibility. #Shameful," former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wrote. 

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Biden admits what many of us already knew, he's not capable of doing this job.  The only folks happier than the fools that voted for him that he's President are the Taliban.

 

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Matters continue to get worse for President Biden as critics on both sides of the aisle panned the comments he made to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about his administration's turbulent Afghan withdrawal. 

Just moments after Biden walked away from the White House podium without taking questions following an address focused on the coronavirus, ABC News released clips from the sitdown taped Wednesday afternoon and more of the interview aired on "World News Tonight."

Stephanopoulos pressed Biden if he thought the withdrawal could have been "handled better in any way."

"No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens," Biden said.

"So for you, that was always priced in the decision?" Stephanopoulos followed.

"Yes," Biden answered. 

"This is a presidency-defining clip. And it’s really bad," Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman reacted.

"This is such a slap in the face to the thousands of Americans still in Afghanistan. He had no plan, he has no urgency, and he won’t take responsibility. #Shameful," former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wrote. 

Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. 

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Staff Sgt. William Bee, who was one of the first Marines to deploy to the country after Sept. 11, 2001, told Fox News Wednesday evening that his wife ordered him to stop watching so much news coverage after he grew irate over some of the developments.

"It wasn't too much trouble getting in there," Bee said. "So why was it such a problem getting everybody out?"

Bee, who nearly died more than once in Afghanistan and was photographed ducking for cover as a Taliban sniper’s bullet exploded on a stone wall inches from his head in 2008, said it was ludicrous to pull out the way U.S. forces did and that a private first class earning one-tenth of what the Joint Chiefs of Staff are paid could have come up with a better solution.

"We pay the Joint Chiefs $16,000 a month; we pay a PFC $1,600 a month, and I guarantee you, if I ask a PFC, hey put your crayons down, if you let me know a good way to get everybody out of Afghanistan. And he could have came up with a better program," he said.

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Biden admits what many of us already knew, he's not capable of doing this job.  The only folks happier than the fools that voted for him that he's President are the Taliban.

 

From the article:

Matters continue to get worse for President Biden as critics on both sides of the aisle panned the comments he made to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about his administration's turbulent Afghan withdrawal. 

Just moments after Biden walked away from the White House podium without taking questions following an address focused on the coronavirus, ABC News released clips from the sitdown taped Wednesday afternoon and more of the interview aired on "World News Tonight."

Stephanopoulos pressed Biden if he thought the withdrawal could have been "handled better in any way."

"No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens," Biden said.

"So for you, that was always priced in the decision?" Stephanopoulos followed.

"Yes," Biden answered. 

"This is a presidency-defining clip. And it’s really bad," Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman reacted.

"This is such a slap in the face to the thousands of Americans still in Afghanistan. He had no plan, he has no urgency, and he won’t take responsibility. #Shameful," former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wrote. 

You know it's bad when they go to a clinton political hack like Steppy-stephanopoulos to interview Joebama about the fiasco.  It was never going to be hard hitting interview!  You know, like constantly interrupting him and trying to make himn look as sorry as he really is.  But wait -- he got 80 Million votes!

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Staff Sgt. William Bee, who was one of the first Marines to deploy to the country after Sept. 11, 2001, told Fox News Wednesday evening that his wife ordered him to stop watching so much news coverage after he grew irate over some of the developments.

"It wasn't too much trouble getting in there," Bee said. "So why was it such a problem getting everybody out?"

Bee, who nearly died more than once in Afghanistan and was photographed ducking for cover as a Taliban sniper’s bullet exploded on a stone wall inches from his head in 2008, said it was ludicrous to pull out the way U.S. forces did and that a private first class earning one-tenth of what the Joint Chiefs of Staff are paid could have come up with a better solution.

"We pay the Joint Chiefs $16,000 a month; we pay a PFC $1,600 a month, and I guarantee you, if I ask a PFC, hey put your crayons down, if you let me know a good way to get everybody out of Afghanistan. And he could have came up with a better program," he said.

Lmbo, if you just came awake from a 5 year coma, you’d think what this Marine said was ludicrous, but man, he nailed it.  The 8 years Obama was president has left us with a “Woke” Military leadership that has sucked up to these Socialists.  They’re more concerned about indoctrinating our troops with CRT than preparing for war.  More concerned about licking the Far Left politicians shoes than taking care of America.  Imo, their allegiance is more to the Dem Party than the Constitution they’ve sworn to protect.  God Save America.

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Lmbo, if you just came awake from a 5 year coma, you’d think what this Marine said was ludicrous, but man, he nailed it.  The 8 years Obama was president has left us with a “Woke” Military leadership that has sucked up to these Socialists.  They’re more concerned about indoctrinating our troops with CRT than preparing for war.  More concerned about licking the Far Left politicians shoes than taking care of America.  Imo, their allegiance is more to the Dem Party than the Constitution they’ve sworn to protect.  God Save America.

Remember Obama fired all the generals who wouldn't submit to the BS.

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10 hours ago, Reagan said:

You know it's bad when they go to a clinton political hack like Steppy-stephanopoulos to interview Joebama about the fiasco.  It was never going to be hard hitting interview!  You know, like constantly interrupting him and trying to make himn look as sorry as he really is.  But wait -- he got 80 Million votes!

C'mon man that was 4 or 5 days ago.  

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This has to be to fastest takeover of a country in history. Faster than Blitzkrieg of Poland.

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3 hours ago, baddog said:

This has to be to fastest takeover of a country in history. Faster than Blitzkrieg of Poland.

Grenada was 4 days.  With very few casualties on either side. 

[baddog]

28 minutes ago, Greezy said:

Grenada was 4 days.  With very few casualties on either side. 

Yes, I forgot my little island countries. How fast was the Afghanistan takeover? Days too, I suspect.