Posted on 08/15/2021 3:15:07 AM PDT by RandFan
President Joe Biden released a statement Saturday from the White House blaming his decision to surge U.S. troops to Afghanistan to combat the Taliban's surging land acquisition on the policies of former President Donald Trump.
Biden said in the statement that he would send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan to complement the 1,000 troops already in the country and the 3,000-troop surge he announced last week, a defense official told the Washington Examiner. The president said the move was necessary after he inherited a tenuous situation from the previous administration, claiming that Trump had cut a deal with the Taliban in 2019 that put them in a powerful military position. Biden also criticized Trump's decision to roll back American forces stationed in the country.
"When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor, which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019, that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on U.S. forces," Biden said in the statement. "Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500."
Biden announced that he was raising the total number of troops in Afghanistan to 5,000 despite both Biden and Trump previously working toward withdrawing U.S. military presence in the nation.
The president said that he was forced to make a decision between honoring the deal with the Taliban established under the Trump administration and bolstering the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
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And the lying media will run with it.
BLAMING OTHERS is ALL that DEMOCRATS DO!!
Biden withdrew, everybody knows.
That didn't work out, either...
Once again, the democrat party and all who vote for them are the enemy of America, folks. All democrats are simply evil. They lie, cheat, and steal and demand power at all costs.
Everything he touches that goes to sh!t will be blamed on Trump. DHS buffoon is blaming border surge on Trumps’s policies.
How the rest of the world is laughing.
Unfortunately he’s on video 36 days ago directly contradicting what’s happening under his watch this is on Saigon Joe
Don’t be afraid Sleepy Joe, none of your lies will stop Devin Nunes and an impeachment recommendation come Jan/Feb 2023. With any luck you’ll have fled DC long before then.
Hey Joe, can we get our boys arms, legs and minds back now?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA - never mind.
Just like his mentor, Barak the First.
Always blaming your predecessor.
I wonder, if the Taliban begin publicly torturing and executing Americans that they capture, will the Democrats and their media dogs DEMAND that Biden DO SOMETHING about it? What would Biden do? Intervene militarily?
Trump Taleban collusion next... Yep yep yep.
According to Joe, the best and brightest is Hunter.
Damned right he is. He's one of the most crack assets of this Administration.
How many more of our troop’s lives is this snafu going to cost us? MSNBC and CNN will surely be keeping tally. Maybe with a little clicker at the bottom of their screen...right next to the chyron spouting lies about Biden inheriting Trump’s military mess.
My friends, on a scale of panic, from one to 10, with one being peace and harmony, and 10 being pure hell, the Biden Administration is at a 15. As I wrote in another comment, the local convenience stores are probably sold out of Red Bull about now. And I wonder how many of Biden’s best and brightest are on the phones to their therapist now.
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