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VP Harris’s Campaign Deceptively Attempts to Shift Blame to Trump for the Disastrous Biden/Harris Withdrawal from Afghanistan
American Thinker ^ | 14 Sep, 2024 | Allan J. Favish

Posted on 09/14/2024 5:46:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Dissecting the web of lies and gaslights the Biden-Harris administration has put forth about that disastrous event.

On Sept. 7, 2024, CBS News reported on statements by a national security spokesman for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign about former President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban regarding troop withdrawals and President Joe Biden and Harris’ subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan:

The campaign argues that Trump’s deal created a ‘virtually impossible’ deadline and left “the Biden-Harris administration with zero plans for an orderly withdrawal — only a dangerous, costly mess.”

“Trump shamelessly attacks the vice president because he hopes he can trick the country into forgetting that his own actions put troops in harm’s way,” Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein told CBS News. “Trump wanted to bring the Taliban to Camp David just days before September 11th—think about that. He cut a bad deal with the very same people who violently took over Afghanistan and led to the collapse of the Afghan government.”

Apparently unmentioned by the Harris campaign to CBS News, and unreported in CBS’s article is that the agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban was not a Treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate. Therefore, it had no legal force as to President Joe Biden, as reported by the Associated Press in August 2021:

But Biden can go only so far in claiming the agreement boxed him in. It had an escape clause: The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed. They did, but Biden chose to stay in it, although he delayed the complete pullout from May to September.

Chris Miller, acting defense secretary in the final months of the Trump administration, chafed at the idea that Biden was handcuffed by the agreement.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; dereliction; gaslighting; lol; retreat; rout

1 posted on 09/14/2024 5:46:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Biden wanted the withdrawal to be his legacy and that is what it became.


2 posted on 09/14/2024 5:46:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Blame someone else..why didn’t I ever think of that?


3 posted on 09/14/2024 5:56:05 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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To: MtnClimber

“He made me do it”. Even though he was no longer president and you were? You’re either very weak, Pedo Biden, or lying. Or both.


4 posted on 09/14/2024 6:04:22 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

It was 7 months after Biden/Harris took office.


5 posted on 09/14/2024 6:08:56 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: MtnClimber

The only reason they didn’t abandon a carrier group is Afghanistan is landlocked.


6 posted on 09/14/2024 6:11:39 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MtnClimber

There was a well-researched and formulated plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan drawn up by the Trump Administration, and it was available to the incoming Harris/Biden team, who blithely ripped it up without even reading it (”Not Invented Here”, you understand). Their own plan was pretty much “bug out”, devil take the hindmost.

And the devil did his part, sandbagging the unfortunates who did not crash the line and get on the last transport out. This was a worse rout than the departure from Viet Nam.

Billions in war material, a very strategic air base, and countless personnel were left to the tender mercies of the Taliban, not any kind of a legitimate government.


7 posted on 09/14/2024 6:16:40 AM PDT by alloysteel (I've told people a million times, "Don't exaggerate.")
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To: MtnClimber

Typical. Democrat success story ... screw something up and then blame the nearest Republican for it.


8 posted on 09/14/2024 6:21:11 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: mfish13
It was 7 months after Biden/Harris took office.

Afghanistan was put on Biden's shoulders on Inauguration Day. He was not bound by Trump's negotiations or planning.

You don't have to be a military veteran to understand this.

I was handed my second Chaparral platoon about 4 months afer arriving in Germany. That same day, we were picked for a tac evaluation. When we flunked, it was due to my inexperience. It didn't matter I had 3 squad leaders that were ROAD, it was all on me, as it should have been.

Turned out to be one of best learning experiences I ever had. It lit a fire under me, and I also learned that taking personal responsibility is a simpler way to live one's life.

A few months later, my other platoon was selected for evaluation. We passed with flying colors: the evaluator was incredulous, "that can't be the same platoon leader from a few months back."

9 posted on 09/14/2024 6:28:37 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: MtnClimber
Did the Biden-Harris administration implement the part of Trump's plan where he showed a Taliban leader a satellite picture of his own house and a threatened to kill him and his family if he caused the US any trouble? No? Carrots and sticks don't work if you abandon the stick unused and also abandon the pile of carrots to be taken without good performance.

How many US citizens did Biden-Harris abandon there? How many allies like translators who worked for us and are now dead? We have again thought the world a lesson: if the US invades you do not work with us because we will abandon you to a traitors death when the old government outlasts us and then looks for revenge.

10 posted on 09/14/2024 6:41:33 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: All

Biden Harris’ contempt for US veterans was never more evident.

Call Congress.
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<><>Clerk of the House has addresses/phones of House members and Committees.
<><>Or call (202) 224-3121, the US House switchboard operator.
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Message: On Aug. 26, 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 US servicemen as the Biden Harris administration grimly struggled to evacuate Afghanistan.

The military deaths are owned by both Biden and Harris for ignoring the signs and intelligence of an impending fall of Kabul. Roughly 1,000 Americans, $7 billion in U.S. weaponry and $57 million in cash were left behind in the abysmally planned evacuation.

Cravenly seeking power, Harris now stupidly argues its President Trump who should be blamed in the deaths of 13 American soldiers.

The bottom line is Biden-Harris’ crass utilitarian politics overwhelmed military strategy, and covering up their utter stupidity is now the name of the game.


11 posted on 09/14/2024 6:48:03 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: MtnClimber
Trump's withdrawal was conditional...based on behavior of Taliban....

The Taliban went crazy and went after everything...Biden ignored Trump's condition...cuz Biden wanted to be the big Military Leader of the withdrawal...which killed our guys and gals.

12 posted on 09/14/2024 6:54:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: MtnClimber

Well Obama would blame Bush for everything he screwed up


13 posted on 09/14/2024 6:56:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Biden-Harris two of the biggest idiots ever to hold office there is nothing they haven’t damaged or destroyed.

The Democrat Socialist Party in action.

When you keep voting for the same thing you get it don’t expect any change with it.


14 posted on 09/14/2024 6:59:33 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: antidemoncrat

And, as always, their claims would be stand-up comedy material if the msm weren’t totally on board with them.


15 posted on 09/14/2024 7:06:43 AM PDT by daler
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


16 posted on 09/14/2024 7:54:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

How can the Trump administration leave the Biden administration without a plan? The Biden administration can make any plan they want.


17 posted on 09/14/2024 10:32:02 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: MtnClimber; All
Not only did we “withdraw,” we SURRENDERED to the enemy.

Why The Stupid Party is afraid to use the term “SURRENDER”is beyond me. Actually, I answered my own question. The Republican Party has no imagination, is gutless, and just plain stupid.

18 posted on 09/14/2024 1:25:07 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: MtnClimber
"VP Harris’s Campaign Deceptively Attempts to Shift Blame to Trump for the Disastrous Biden/Harris Withdrawal from Afghanistan"


19 posted on 09/14/2024 2:25:20 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: alloysteel; GOPJ
"Billions in war material, a very strategic air base, and countless personnel were left to the tender mercies of the Taliban, not any kind of a legitimate government."

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Well said, alloysteel.

Once a week I attend a city-sponsored Japanese language school (north of Tokyo). The vast majority of students are young adults from all over Asia. Typically the student either works in Japan on a Visa or their spouse is a Japanese citizen.

An entrepreneur from Afghanistan came to class a couple times and he spoke fairly good English.

His one-man-show is to find used cars in Japan and sell them to other countries, particularly Russia where they recognize the quality of used cars in Nippon.

He told me the worst thing about the Taliban rule is there's no state/national law, per se. If a local official doesn't like something about you or your past, you could easily be sent to jail on his whim.

Very dangerous place for him, especially since close relatives were formally friendly to the Russians when they ruled Afghanistan.

Great fear about ever going back to that outlaw-run country.

20 posted on 09/15/2024 1:55:02 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
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