Posted on 04/06/2023 5:01:32 PM PDT by conservative98
Former secretary of state under President Trump Mike Pompeo fired back at claims from the Biden administration that Trump constrained the conditions of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, during which 13 American soldiers died in a suicide bombing while protecting the Kabul airport, and untold numbers of Americans and Afghans eligible for evacuation were stranded.
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Mike Pompeo, who also served as CIA director under Trump, said he wasn't surprised by Kirby's tact, saying President Biden and members of his administration routinely blame anyone but themselves for their own multiple failures.
"I am outraged by the fact that the 13 Americans that were killed there didn't have to happen. And President Biden made the political decision to announce the date of withdrawal, to publicize it, and then to withdraw – in spite of the fact that the military clearly had told him that was a likely outcome. I don't know what they're talking about," he said on "The Story."
Pompeo said Kirby failed to understand that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was a "corrupt scoundrel" who was likely to flee and destabilize the country's government, and that ceding Bagram Air Base would be a geopolitical catastrophe with long term, far-reaching consequences.
"This was entirely predictable. We (the Trump administration) didn't constrain them at all. The Biden administration has demonstrated their willingness to break up good plans that the Trump administration had," Pompeo said, pointing to Biden's continued deconstruction of Trump's border security policies and his about-face on the Trump-era tactics used to "deter" Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It is outrageous what Kirby said today. And this report is based upon things that are just simply not true," Pompeo said.
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The Afghanistan collapse happened under Biden’s watch because he rejected our conditions-based approach.
Instead of taking responsibility, he’s trying to pass the buck with a dishonest report. pic.twitter.com/ud0LkY3nss— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) April 6, 2023
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Biden and his administration are like a plague.
“Mike Pompeo, who also served as CIA director under Trump, said he wasn’t surprised by Kirby’s tact....”
Tack, not tact! Am I right? As in tacking a sailboat..
Doesn’t’t mean anything to the left.
Not only was the Afghanistan withdrawal Trumps fault but also the San Francisco Fire of 1891 and subsequent earthquake of 1906 as well as WW1 and WW2, the Viet Nam War, the assassination of JFK, Climate Change, the Russians attacking the Ukraine and he’s also a key suspect in Noahs Flood.
Like Locusts
Also I heard Trump and Pompeo say President Trump left the Biden administration a whole plan in a binder on how to withdraw. And Biden and his team took that binder and threw it in the trash.
Worked in a medical office right when this started that saw a lot of Middle Easterners and Afghans.
Met many of college age Afghan girls whose families were able to get them out to move into relatives here in the US. If they hadn’t they wouldn’t have ever been able to go to college.
Met Afghans who supported and helped the US during the war. They were told we would help them leave. That didn’t happen.
Few whole families got out. They said they gave up everything they had but had family here and it was worth it.
Most of our supporters didn’t have family here and had to make the decision “Does Dad stay or go?”
I met the Dads where Dad left. Good God, it was eating them up inside. They knew they would be dead if they stayed but the pain of leaving their family was over the top.
Met an Afghan women who was now an American citizen. Her baby sister’s dream was to be a dentist, just graduated for dental school and now would be forced to be a housekeeper. She just started to sob.
That’s when I figured out Xiden wasn’t just an incompetent boob, but also just plan evil.
Biden does what the muslims tell him to do.
Specifically Obama and Jarrett.
IIRC...Under Trump....there was a contingency of about 2500 soldiers who would remain until the withdrawal was complete...If the Taliban acted up...the withdrawal would stop...
That’s because the left is in full agreement with this cluster@#$%.
The most reckless thing the Biden administration did was closing Bagram Air Base before the withdrawal and retreating through the Kabul airport. There’s no way in hell the Trump administration made that decision, and even if they had, Biden’s people should never have done that. Dumbasses.
Re incompetent:
There comes a point where “incompetent” crosses over into plain old deliberate and planned.
“I was in that San Francisco fire. Killed my whole family while I was in jail with Mandela. Not a joke”
hey, for TV “journalists” a word is good enough if it sounds somewhat like the right word. It’ll get past spellcheck, and that’s all that matters.
THEY ARE ALL EVIL!!!
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EVIL, PURE EVIL!
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL and so are the others that VOTE for EVIL!
EVIL!
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