Posted on 03/08/2023 10:15:56 PM PST by linMcHlp
EXCERPTS:
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine sniper who served in Afghanistan during the American withdrawal, recounted the ordeal in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, telling members about the moment he and a friend were hit with a "flash and massive wave of pressure" after a suicide bomb detonated at Kabul airport on Aug. 26, 2021.
"The troops on the ground had to tirelessly work to control the crowds, day and night. The Department of State staff at HKIA (Hamid Karzai International Airport) would completely shut down processing Afghans every evening and into the morning, leaving ground forces with a nightmare," he said. "State was not prepared to be in HKIA."
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So will anybody ever be held accountable for all the crap these hearings uncover?
Probably not. Not at all.
US Trained Afghan Army Now Fighting for Russia - OUCH!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/opinion/afghanistan-ukraine-putin-special-forces.html
Only if Trump was President.
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Far be it for me to defend State but the blame for the airport mess and the death of those Marines, who were brought in to defend it, falls squarely on Biden’s decision and the DoD’s cooperation in closing Bagram Air Base a month prior.
democrats want us dead and blowing us up in war is just as good as any other method.
Don’t firfet5ge bitch Hillary Clinton,Susan Rice,who still works for Biden,Samantha Powers,all these scumbags are still there!
Worth repeating...bump.
Funny, I didn’t see it anywhere but on Fox, but I assumed it got full viewing on the MSM.
Biden’s folly, it kills.
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