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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Slow Joe gave a taped interview because his handlers thought anything really bad would be edited out. Too bad for him they left some in.
This is going well.
Somebody supported this stupid son of a bitch Biden.
The media might be making their move to force Creepy Joe out under orders from Obozo and the globalists...he’s a threat to their long term plans now.
That’s heartbreaking.
I suspect that Biden realizes that what he’s feeling now is like how Robert E Lee felt in the day after Gettysburg. He’s screwed up big and there is no way to fix it.
All is well - open boarders, complete surrender to Taliban, rampant inflation, loss of freedom, now energy dependent, public education teaching racism, stolen election - but, hey, no mean tweets.
I’ve witnessed a couple of intelligent people slide into senility. The whole world is getting to watch it happen to a person who was never very smart in the first place. Stutter. Yeah, sure.
Democrats are very sick, perverted, and evil , and their message to American citizens begging for their lives from imminent death at the hands of blood thirsty fiends is: Fu_k You - die.😡
House Dem: It’s on trapped Americans in Kabul to find their way to the airport, not us
ED MORRISSEY Aug 19, 2021 2:41 PM ET
Good Lord. We already know that Joe Biden’s retreat from Kabul left thousands of Americans behind Taliban lines, when his pell-mell rush to the exits didn’t bother to consider them. Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), chair of the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness, tells CNN that their safety isn’t the responsibility of the military or the administration, at least not until they figure out how to get into the airport:
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Nevertheless, this is one hell of a message to send about one’s own citizens trapped behind Taliban lines, thanks to the country’s decision to abandon them there. The White House has been smart enough to avoid saying this on camera, although the State Department’s advisories to Americans in Afghanistan have strongly implied the same thing.
It’s one thing to imply that, however, and another to declare it. And not just declare it, but do so as Garamendi does here, almost rebuking people for thinking that their government has any responsibility for their safety. You’re on your own, kids. The Secretary will disavow, etc etc etc.
It all points up the incompetence and idiocy behind Joe Biden’s plan for withdrawal. The US knew we had somewhere between ten and fifteen thousand Americans in the city, and the Biden administration had two weeks to watch the Taliban sweep through provinces before they got to Kabul. We could have easily secured exfiltration routes to the airport in that period and established a much larger security perimeter in anticipation of the collapse. Instead, the White House and Pentagon prioritized a military bug-out, only to later throw many more troops back into the airport in a belated effort to keep flights available
Perhaps Garamendi might want to look into those decisions. Y’know … about readiness, and all that. Isn’t that his gig? Instead, he’s trying to provide cover for the abandonment of Americans to our enemies by Biden and his hand-picked leaders at the Pentagon. It’s a disgrace
You can’t blame someone who is senile for not remembering:-)
Not to stick up for Joey but have we seen any dead body pics? For that matter have we seen any pics of substantial numbers of Tallybon? So far my high count is 4-5 standing around in the street or riding in a pickup.
If you look back at biden, he’s always talked before his brain went into gear.
"That was eight months ago!"
Incoherent and meaningless ... which could be called consistent.
They knew it.
Biden knew it.
They knew Biden knew it.
Biden knew they knew it.
Well, as we saw with the riots last year, the Democrats are the You’re-On-Your-Own party.
“Frankly, I am surprised George S aired the parts that reveal how out of touch the POTUS is”
Stephy ran out of material to edit out, otherwise all he had was a 60 second infomercial.
Not yet. He still has to relinquish Taiwan to China, and possibly Japan also.
You can darn sure blame his wife, kids plus friends for not not informing us, the PUBLIC.
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