Posted on 08/21/2021 9:37:36 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Joe Biden defended the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, two decades after NATO forces invaded the country and toppled the Taliban regime following September 11, 2001, as he blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan security services for the anarchy engulfing the country.
Speaking from the White House, the US President – who had returned from his ‘vacation’ at Camp David – told the American nation that the Taliban’s astonishing sweep to power and seizure of the capital city Kabul this month had happened ‘more quickly’ than he had anticipated.
His address came as Americans woke up to images of terrified Afghans plummeting from the engines of an airborne US Air Force C-17 jet above Hamid Karzai International Airport, as hundreds of other desperate locals attempted to escape the theocratic rule of the Taliban.
Biden also said that the airport is safe for Americans to evacuate but it seems that was another lie!
All gates at Hamid Karzai International Airport were closed Saturday because of a backup at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, according to a Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Most U.S. military evacuation planes fly from Kabul to Qatar and the inability to handle more evacuees there is causing a ripple effect.
Pentagon officials said Saturday they continue to process evacuees from Afghanistan, despite a fluid and dynamic situation at Kabul airport.
“The airport remains secure,” said Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor, deputy director of the joint staff for regional operations. “There has been no reported change to the current enemy situation in and around the airport at this time.”
But as our administration continues to spread propaganda the reality shows that people are getting shoot as they try to enter the airport!
WATCH (warning: graphic video)
Video below:
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Also, reports are allegedly coming in from French intelligence that ISIS Khorasan has entered the Kabul Airport.
American citizens in Afghanistan should stay away from the international airport in Kabul, the U.S. Embassy now says.
“Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time,” according to a Saturday security alert from the embassy.
Thank Joe Biden for this mess!
Quit reading about here:
“images of terrified Afghans plummeting from the engines”
Write it right or don’t write at all.
4. That was 4 or 5 days ago.
Not to worry, the Taliban keeps their executioners swords very sharp. You'll hardly feel a thing!
Joe, please tell us why you did not evacuate the military last?
According to the Brits the massacre is on schedule for tomorrow—no way to know if that is accurate or not...
the reality shows that people are getting shoot
They think they writed it real good lol
If you went to the website you would see tweets from the ground plus video.
I like to be informed, so checked out their website. It’s legit.
The sun is shining at my house with a gentle summer breeze.
(Of course tomorrow we will have a tropical storm that will be knocking down trees like tooth-picks....)
Is it isis they are shooting at? or unmasked people not social distancing?
16 Aug 2021) The U.S. military is sending another battalion of about 1,000 troops to help safeguard the Kabul airport as American forces killed two armed individuals there during a chaotic evacuation.
So President Biden, just how are Americans supposed to get out?!
The taliban Who have really changed, really, they they have really really changed. Just ask the left. They claim that day and night now.
“Can anyone write these days?”
Maybe he meant shoot like in the expression “Oh Shoot”.
Oh Shoot= Oh Darn.
Or ‘those guys fell off the plane last week’.
Civil war going to breaking out:
Aug 20—Baghlan province, north of Kabul, #Afghanistan
-Footage shows dead bodies of Taliban fighters killed in an ambush by resistance forces
-Reports indicate 8 Taliban fighters & 1 commander were arrested
-Taliban reportedly sending reinforcements today
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1429100580719501314
Well, this is going swimmingly!
It’s not very reassuring that a illegitimate president with dementia is over seeing this.
The old Northern Alliance is going to double cross the Taliban and go after them again.
Which is what’s been happening there for 3000 years.
We should just send cash to them and stay out of it, let the tribes rip each other apart.
It’s their normal lifestyle.
Speaking of the Brits, I’ve heard that US troops are terribly frustrated watching UK Special Forces guys leaving the airport and returning with British citizens to be evacuated, while our guys are prohibited from doing the same for Americans. Lawyers and PC have gutted our military.
US poof generals dgaf about average Americans stuck in Kabul.
They are probably focusing on a few VIPs—once they are rescued the troops are gone...
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