Posted on 05/19/2023 7:43:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There was a lot that Joe Biden did wrong during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. He failed to get our allies out before the country fell to the Taliban, then leaving them and hundreds of Americans behind. Because of his failures, 13 young Americans who served in our military were killed.
One of the other things that the Biden team did was drone strike a family and then tell all kinds of false stories about it, claiming that they had hit a terrorist. First, they said there were no civilian casualties. Then we found out ten people, including several children, were killed and there were no terrorists. One adult killed was even a contractor who had worked for us. He came to Kabul to hopefully be evacuated to the U.S. So we took out an ally in the botched strike. The Biden team kept backtracking and changing the facts. No one was held accountable for that considerable error.
Now the Biden team is backtracking again on another drone strike.
The Biden team claimed that they’d taken out a bigwig al-Qaeda official in Syria this week, only to have to walk it back now that it turned out that they were completely wrong. Now, the reports are that instead of an al Qaeda guy, the person they took out was a poor guy who was the father of ten, who was taking care of his sheep when he was hit by an American missile.
Lotfi Hassan Misto, 56, whose family identified him as the victim of a Hellfire missile attack on May 3, was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in this town in northwest Syria, according to interviews with his brother, son and six others who knew him. They described a kind, hard-working man whose “whole life was spent poor.”
The operation was overseen by U.S. Central Command, which claimed hours after the strike, without citing evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a “senior Al Qaeda leader.” But now there is doubt inside the Pentagon about who was killed, two U.S. defense officials told The Washington Post.
“We are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official,” one official said.
Some were still trying to suggest he might be al Qaeda, but the family refutes that.
The administration is also not talking about who they were trying to target or how such an error could have occurred. They say they’re continuing to assess the situation.
The scrambling is eerily reminiscent of what they did after the botched Afghanistan drone strike so I’m not sure I’d believe anything being said, as the story keeps evolving.
When you don’t hold anyone accountable for a huge mistake that killed people including children, then chances are you will have it happen again. But that’s the Biden team in a nutshell. Biden and his team have made so many mistakes in so many areas. He and his people are constantly lying their heads off. Yet, no one is held accountable for bad decisions or poor policies. It’s why they keep doing the same things wrong again and again. But it’s particularly disastrous when it results in the killing of innocent people.
The Russians apparently liquidated the top Ukrainian military guy, Zaluzhny...but they know enough to keep quiet about it, until it’s confirmed.
We shouldn’t even be in Syria.
And they say Putin should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sanctimonious pot calling the kettle black
The sheeps side.
Why are we blowing up anybody in Syria?
Get the hell out of the Middle East, and stay the hell out.
Oopsie.
If Trump had done this the bimbos and pretentious ‘men’ of the Washington Post and New York Times would still be screaming about it... and for the next two years.
With Biden?
Crickets.
Trying to break Obama’s record? Probably needs better butt kissers at the Intel mob to swear that all were accurate and successful.
Do you know how many trillions we have sunk into trying to sort out the ME and now you just want to drop it and let it all go to waste. Fortunately those wiser than you in the deep state Apparat are determined to show that for a mere couple of trillion more we can see this through to the end. [ /sarc and apologies for invoking the sunk Bu$h cost fallacy]
While not letting Biden off the hook, it takes mutliple layers of military command and intel incompetence to pull off a caper like this. We know about the guy at the top, but we should be even more concerned about the next seven layers down.
Actually, we don't even know the name or names of "the guy at the top".
But your point abut the seven layers is very well taken.
Was this guy the farmer with 10 kids that was kilt in error?
“Why are we blowing up anybody in Syria?”
I guess it started with Arab Spring. Now, You’ll have to ask Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blinkin, among others.
It is time to impeach the senile puppet Brandon!
Every side, but America’s side?
The strike was on target.
As was the Afghanistan strike on the family and kids.
The purpose of drone strikes is provocation.
That is why they publicize them.
War is the lifeblood of the deep state.
To have war you must have an opponent who is motivated to attack you and fight you.
Get it?
What will help keep US forces in place in Syria?
Attacks on those forces.
Even one suicide bomber killed at the gate, is useful for making the case that “the job isn’t done yet.”
It’s a pattern with the left. Just take action and claim amazing results. When the sad truth catches up with the brazen lie, not enough are left to care.
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