Posted on 08/20/2021 3:49:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Twenty-five U.S. senators have sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense expressing grave concerns about the threat posed by the U.S. military leaving behind in Afghanistan weaponry, such as UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, which have now fallen into the hands of Taliban forces and their terrorist allies. But, that’s just “what happens when you withdraw,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says.
The senators, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), want a full accounting of the military equipment left behind, the equipment that is now in the Taliban’s hands and the Taliban’s ability to use, or learn to use with the help of America’s adversaries, the seized equipment.
“We were horrified to see U.S. equipment – including UH-60 Black Hawks – in the hands of the Taliban,” the senators tell the Defense Secretary.
“It is unconscionable that high-tech military equipment paid for by U.S. taxpayers has fallen into the hands of the Taliban and their terrorist allies,” the senators write. “Securing U.S. assets should have been among the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense prior to announcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
“This is what happens when you withdraw. Some stuff, some equipment is left there,” Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday when asked by San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX about the danger of leaving “tens of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. military equipment in the hands of the Taliban”:
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So virtually all this equipment was stuff we left for the Afghan army and the Taliban took it from them when they folded and fled. What were we supposed to do? Strip the Afghans of everything when we left?
That wasn’t a withdrawal.
It was a bug out.
Exactly. Just like hunters art work, everyone knows the deal.
Pelosi is what happens when her father didn’t withdraw.
I bet if nanzi is ever forced to evacuate, her $50,000 freezer full of gourmet ice cream will not be left behind.
This was Barry’s way to arm his buddies A cluster Fauci to us but a well-executed plan to them. And no they don’t care about us.
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The politicians in DC don’t care….
It was all OUR money that they wasted. It ALWAYS is.
This is the norm for them.
She’s what happens when you withdraw too late
It works out well for suppliers. Now there will be a need for resupply before we go back in and expensive new tech. Research grants being applied for already. And since Pelosi is heavily invested in the MIC herself she is giddy about boosting business. Give away the old stuff and buy all new.
NOW the Democrats will support huge Military funding.
Don't say that, even in jest !
She is the third in the line of succession behind the president and the vice-president,
and don't think that she doesn't know it !
No one is this stupid. This was purposeful.
The Pelosi is one of the biggest hypocrites in American politics.
If it was Trump as president today, Pelosi would not be saying “That’s ‘What Happens When You Withdraw” with regard to powerful U.S. equipment that was either not destroyed by us or just left behind. She would be demanding a full scale Congressional investigation, to consume the administration with hearings for months ahead.
That is not what happens when there is an orderly, planned withdrawal!
It will NEVER happen, Irish, don’t worry.
I’m sure she’s made a fortune from all this, and crying all the way to the bank.
Follow THAT money.
Pelosi = C.U.N.T.
Can’t understand normal thinking
It’s a race with her mind lack of logic or to much stupidity.
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