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Its a shame that the horrible failure of leadership both political and military isn't talked about much anymore.
1 posted on 08/27/2022 8:16:21 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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Probably one of Obama’s Perfumed Princes.


2 posted on 08/27/2022 8:18:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Besides being rushed and done with great clumsiness, that Afghanistan Evacuation was a very strange tale.
I kept hearing about American citizens, both individuals and whole family groups that made it to the airport gates after days of rough traveling, only to be refused entry into that airport.
I heard about Afghans who had helped us with translation, who were also barred from entering the airport or boarding that plane.
Who was giving those orders and WHY?
That is what the J6 “Committee” should be investigating!


3 posted on 08/27/2022 8:26:11 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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Name the Colonel.


6 posted on 08/27/2022 8:29:17 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chanece favors the prepared mind.)
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Bet he was following orders that came ultimately from the Pentagon/Brandon administration.


9 posted on 08/27/2022 8:33:28 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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This turd colonel ought to be named


10 posted on 08/27/2022 8:36:04 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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I wonder how many Afghans who fought alongside the US were tortured and executed. Probably their families too, brothers, sisters, children, nieces, nephews just so Brandon could do a victory lap on September 11.


11 posted on 08/27/2022 8:39:19 PM PDT by packagingguy
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My way of applying Occam’s Razor is to assume, failing evidence to the contrary, that what a thing does is what it was intended to do.

The manner of the evacuation resulted in thousands of allies, minions, relatives of same, and some technical US citizens being betrayed and thrown to the Taliban wolves. When I saw how the pullout was proceeding it became obvious to me there never was any intention of getting all those people out.

Assuming I’m right, a quick and seemingly rushed pullout was the best excuse/cover for leaving behind the people they never intended to bring out in any case.


13 posted on 08/27/2022 8:43:33 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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As Truman famously said, the buck stops at the Oval Office. George W. Bush is responsible for half of the Afghan fiasco. He set the ground rules. Biden bungled the withdrawal. He’s responsible for the other half.

Everyone else is just a bit player.


14 posted on 08/27/2022 8:45:14 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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15 posted on 08/27/2022 8:45:35 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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and noone in the msm gives a crap and will refuse to cover it- they are too busy licking the boots of biden declaring how wonderful his ‘string of recent victories’ is-0


16 posted on 08/27/2022 8:49:17 PM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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This was an o-6 from the 82nd Airborne. His identity must be known by many. Some one put it out there on the net:
At that point, the team members began conversing with a government rep at the airport, which triggered a series of calls up various chains of commands about the busses and its inhabitants.

That’s when the colonel, who was not named but belonged to the 82nd Airborne, arrived on the scene, Kennedy said. Immediately, the serviceman began to assert his authority - as he was the most senior officer on the scene.

One of the SoA members, a serviceman who goes by the pseudonym of Seaspray, recalled of the encounter: ‘There was colonel who came out and wanted to show that, essentially, he was the one that can decide whether or not somebody could get on a plane or not.’

‘And he just makes the call,’ Kennedy then added, recalling the colonel’s words.

‘”Turn everybody around; put everybody back out - I don’t care who they are,”’ Kennedy recounted.

At that point, Kennedy and his team frantically began making calls and arguing with brass at the de facto base - noting to officials that the lists of occupants on the bus had been verified, their bags searched, and their travel documents perused.

Seaspray said: ‘We had the appeal of, “These lists have been verified; they had been searched by US Marines; they weren’t carrying anything; their bags had already been gone through; they’ve been patted down; documents have been verified – we had all of that proof.’

US troops are pictured within a secure area of Kabul Airport last summer, while hopeful refugees await charter planes to leave
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US troops are pictured within a secure area of Kabul Airport last summer, while hopeful refugees await charter planes to leave

However, the colonel reportedly remained unconvinced - telling the team that he didn’t know if the documents and other criteria were ‘fake or not.’

Still, the group continued to attempt to talk sense into the serviceman, asking if they could at least go through the passengers and to pull out the American citizens and the green card holders.

‘And he’s like,’ Kennedy said: ‘”Nope – it’s my decision. It’s a command.”’

The fighter, who served in the Army’s Green Berets as a sniper during the early years of his storied MMA career, said that he at that point was growing increasing impatient with the colonel, and even accused him of making an unlawful order.

‘Like, well, I’m not in the military,’ Kennedy, who started Save Our Allies along with Palmisciano and Colonel Sarah Verardo, said. ‘I’m not here for the military – and that’s not really a lawful order.’

The colonel, according to Kennedy, continued to push the theory that the documentation - which had been checked by Kennedy and his team as well as other US officials - have been fabricated.

But Kennedy’s response this time was, ‘”Is it worth the risk of saying that it isn’t? If there’s a chance that these documents are real, are you willing to push Americans back off base?”’

‘And they were,’ Kennedy says in an excerpt of Send Me.’

Tim’s colleagues theorized that the colonel’s behavior stemmed from the fact that Kennedy is a pseudo celebrity - and no longer is part of the military. Palmiscianor said that because of this, he did not seem to take the group and their efforts seriously, looking at it as a publicity stunt by the ex-athlete.

‘From his perspective,’ Palmiscianor recalled, ‘Tim was the only guy that he knew.’

‘He thought, “This is some f***in guy that’s just showing up in Afghanistan, running seven buses in, you know – f**k this guy, I want to kick him out.”’

Seaspray added that at one point during the face-off, he heard the colonel sarcastically remark, ‘This isn’t the Tim Kennedy show.’

Kennedy, meanwhile, was irate over the treatment, chiefly due to the fact that their were people’s - and children’s - lives at stake. With that said, if the colonel’s theory was wrong, the mistake would be a costly one.

‘These were people that fought and had their relatives die for us,’ Kennedy recalled of the bus passengers, who would eventually be turned away and never heard from again - despite several generals later overruling the colonel’s inexplicable order.

‘They lost their limbs for us,’ Kennedy continued, referring to the Afghans onboard who had aided the US in the fight against the Taliban. ‘They lost their adult lives and youth and their innocence for us.

He added: ‘Yes, they’re fighting for Afghanistan. Yes, they’re fighting for their people – but they are fighting with us. That’s who – that’s who we’re trying to save here.’

Palmisciano added: ‘From our perspective, this was possibly the most valuable load of people we had brought in thus far.’

The group would then begin to desperately plea with the officer, who refused to make any concessions to the group, including just accepting those with American passports or those related to American citizens - all while the passengers waited desperately outside the gate, off the bus.

But the colonel still would not budge.

‘Everybody goes back on these buses and I want them escorted back off the base,’ he told Kennedy and the rest of the group. ‘Kick them out.’

Seaspray said: : ‘And at gunpoint, they pushed Americans, orphans, visa holders, back into buses, and forced them ack off base knowing that we were already rebaring and cementing the main gates closed, knowing that we’re going to leave soon, knowing that if you push those people back of the base, it was a high probability that they would not ever get on a plane.


17 posted on 08/27/2022 9:06:20 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth,He looks like the sex all y )
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I have not been impressed with our officer core....perfumed princes with marginal skills that get by because they have some charm, they have a good looking wife (honestly, yes) or if they play golf or just a good old frat brother...

they take tests and little courses to boost their resume....

its their pensions and forget about anything else....

many are cowards.....we won't make it with this bunch....

much rather have a grizzled sergeant leading us.

18 posted on 08/27/2022 9:23:00 PM PDT by cherry
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24 posted on 08/27/2022 9:47:12 PM PDT by nutmeg
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Bump


26 posted on 08/27/2022 10:36:38 PM PDT by angelsonmyside
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Compare this to the Iran hostage crisis under Carter. The Iran story was big news every day. The Afghan hostages are ignored.


33 posted on 08/27/2022 11:18:13 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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"The group - which included Kennedy, Palmisciano, Special Forces Officer Dave Johnson, and ex-recon Marine Chad Robichaux - had purchased the buses out of their own pockets, they said, and used them to pick up the various individuals across the war-torn country all through the night.
Robichaux said: 'Whoever just made the decision to turn this bus around essentially just killed – just murdered – these people. And by the way, some of those people are children.
'And some of these people were women. But some of these people are Americans, that we just sent back to the Taliban."

This awful story is covered in foreign press.

I doubt our brain washing MSM will have anything about it.

At least there is a movie to document what was done.

Then again, what did anyone expect was going to happen with the current criminal, traitor, coup occupiers of DC, running our third world style dictatorship.

It's not like they give 2 sh*ts about Americans, or anyone who might have helped our former country. 😞

38 posted on 08/28/2022 12:49:49 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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The process of exclusion was quarterbacked by the Department of State. Members if tge military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense were being used by Biden to execute or enforce foreign policy. U.S. citizens not appearing in the required pre-packaged condition were to be excluded based on strict orders from the Secretary of State.


40 posted on 08/28/2022 2:49:23 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Bird colonel or lieutenant colonel? it makes a difference when attempting to identify the bastard.


41 posted on 08/28/2022 5:21:50 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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So every “panel member” at his court martial would have at least one star. He knows he has nothing to worry about. What kind of pension does an O-6 with 20+ years in get?
42 posted on 08/28/2022 6:29:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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This is what happens when you have a PISS POOR Commander In Chief in charge who is wholly supported by the Deep State's DoD and DoS.
43 posted on 08/28/2022 6:39:22 AM PDT by Chgogal (Uncle Brandon wants your money.)
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