Posted on 08/19/2021 11:19:17 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Joe Biden said he can't 'recall' if he was warned to maintain a troop presence in Afghanistan and insisted 'no one is being killed' during the chaos at the Kabul airport in a series of confusing comments in his first interview on the bungled withdrawal and the Taliban's takeover.
He also said he would have still pulled troops from Afghanistan without former President Donald Trump's deal to get everyone out by May 1 in a reversal of his finger-pointing at his predecessor for the chaos.
'Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline – they wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops,' ABC's George Stephanopoulos said to Biden in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
'No, they didn't,' the president pushed back. 'It was split. That wasn't true. That wasn't true.'
'They didn't tell you they wanted troops to stay?' Stephanopoulos asked.
'No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame – all troops, they didn't argue against that,' Biden reiterated.
There were multiple warnings from top brass and military intelligence officials who cautioned against a total withdrawal from Afghanistan, claiming the situation was ripe for the Taliban to take over.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Biden knew the risks of a total troop pull out and went forward with it anyway despite objections and warnings from his team.
Biden also said in the interview that chaos in Kabul was inevitable - months after saying it was not - and snapped at a question over photos of Afghans falling from planes and packing a C-17 while trying desperately to flee the Taliban.
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Frankly, I am surprised George S aired the parts that reveal how out of touch the POTUS is. George was always pretty tight with 0bama, so he could be in on the plan that is being implemented to get Joe out of office SOON. JMHO
Just keep on digging yourself deeper, Joe Biden.
Not even paid liars like Stephanopolous could keep you from stepping on rake after rake.
Very entertaining!
He just needs to convince enough idiots on his side of the aisle to keep the country from exploding. It’s worked in the past, and I see no reason for it to not work again.
Loses grip implies he had a grip in the first place. Senile Joe has lost touch with reality years ago.
It’s sad when the mind goes.
Joe loses his grip on reality:...
Mentally AWOL for many years. Anybody remember the Clarence Thomas confirm hearings? Pathetic!!
I saw this on another site (wish I could take credit for it): We should start calling them the “Talibiden.”
He’s just an ordinary criminal.
As soon as the interrogation begins he’s evasive, has amnesia, denies ever saying/doing anything.
Just a serial crook / gangbanger dodging the law.
Low rent back alley Wilmington hustler.
Joe thought he was pulling out of Vietnam.
That’s why he sent Kamala there to see how things are going.
Once again a UK source. Not US. The NYT and WP are useless.
What Joe meant was that nobody from the Master Race of the elites was killed....
They are going to have to remove him.
Doesn't mater if you replace him with a Marxist whore, it just has to be done.
I fear for our nation and the Western world et al.
Our weakness makes this world a more dangerous place.
After WWII we didn’t ask to be in this position. We just sort of slipped into it, having our troops deployed in Asia and Europe, with reconstruction plans, and then the rise of Communism as an existential threat to the West...
Be default it was pinned on us. Us, who historically and by the wishes of our Founding Fathers were supposed to stay out of these affairs. The US pursued neutrality and even isolation and unlike the former colonial powers in Europe, we were thrust into this position.
But nonetheless here we are, and today we cannot unravel ourselves. There is no “disengaging,” without causing disaster. Our own security and prosperity today depends on our continued commitment and involvement in international affairs, to include military/security operations which quite frankly define most of it. Most of this world is rules by force, only force is respected, and therefore:
***The underwriter of US policies in most foreign affairs is the DoD.***
Yes we have nations like the Europeans with whom you can talk and make deals and rationally solve problems... But most of the world is run by the likes or war lords, repressive regimes ruled by despots... The language they understand is force.
Must be strange taking orders from a dementia patient in such life or death situations.
But then again our generals are a little funny,too.
Is that true? No code word under situation like this?
Hillary’s man, Little George, puts Biden’s hand in the Cuisenart. The long knives are out.
Courtesy of CLUELESS JOE from TALIBAN CO.
As damaging as the parts of the interview are that we are allowed to see, how bad is what they cut out?
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