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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin contradicts Biden, says Americans are being assaulted by the Taliban in Kabul
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | August 20th, 2021 | Grace Panetta

Posted on 08/20/2021 2:36:23 PM PDT by Mariner

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed reports that Americans trying to reach the airport to leave Afghanistan are being beaten and called it "unacceptable" just moments after President Joe Biden said he didn't know of any Americans being blocked.

"We know of no circumstance where American citizens are - carrying an American passport are trying to get through to the airport," Biden said in Friday remarks on the US' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But Biden's claim was almost immediately refuted by his own defense secretary in a briefing with members of Congress, Politico reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airport; california; lloydaustin; nancypelosi; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/20/2021 2:36:23 PM PDT by Mariner
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2 posted on 08/20/2021 2:39:19 PM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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Just what we need now grown men in a position to do something finger pointing.


3 posted on 08/20/2021 2:41:10 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Austin prolly deciding not to take too many arrows for Biden, who could succumb to “health problems” at any time given the frailty of his condition.


4 posted on 08/20/2021 2:41:48 PM PDT by Starboard
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Lloyd Austin says “Mr. President, I’m sorry, but that’s just one White Lie too far. I can’t go there! What do you think the Taliban would be doing to an American right now, playing a card game of Old Maid? Torture; it’s what they do!”


5 posted on 08/20/2021 2:43:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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Consequences of letting them throw away the key on our Jan6 prisoners treated Guantanamo style.

This always was an Obama Marxist fantasy.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 2:43:07 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifie)
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Biden is the scapegoat and he doesn’t even know it.

And first video on youtube of an American being beaten or killed will bring a firestorm to DC.


7 posted on 08/20/2021 2:44:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Main Street

As an aside, this is the first time I noticed the Space Force Flag. It is a good thing. Thanks Ptesident Trump. Xiden probably doesn’t even notice that it is there.


8 posted on 08/20/2021 2:45:01 PM PDT by CornPop
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President Retard was just sure today was Wednesday or was that yesterday?


9 posted on 08/20/2021 2:45:34 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say )
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Oops. Two different briefings. Two different stories. It is not a mistake. Do not be distracted by these diversions.

General Austin should know better. He was in charge of the drawdown in Iraq. He knows what is involved. The question is, was Austin so busy doing crap with the military that had zero to do with killing and breaking things. Was he being woke with Milley & Company?

Regardless, he is SecDef. The responsibility falls on his shoulders to do the right things. The right things was not done. In a way, if he is being subordinate now, it is to save his own ass. That shows a lack of character.

A buck private who loses his rifle is punished more than woke generals that lose a war.

10 posted on 08/20/2021 2:46:00 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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So the real headline is: “Austin Says ‘You will not pin this shit on me!’”


11 posted on 08/20/2021 2:46:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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The democrat party is the taliban of the weat. I suggest we treat any democrat the same as one would treat a member of the taliban.


12 posted on 08/20/2021 2:48:22 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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My question is if the Taliban already have blue check accounts?


13 posted on 08/20/2021 2:48:35 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress )
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14 posted on 08/20/2021 2:51:11 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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President Retard was just sure today was Wednesday or was that yesterday?

C'mon, Man! Wednesday was 4 or 5 days ago!

15 posted on 08/20/2021 2:51:41 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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Affirmative Action types never stand up and take responsibility for their numerous clusterf^%#$.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 2:53:02 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Wonder if paranoia is setting in.
They know that their colleagues all play dirty.
They know the length they will go to set someone up.
They don’t want to be the next scaregoat.


17 posted on 08/20/2021 2:56:11 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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“Wonder if paranoia is setting in.”

That’s why nobody in the white house has anything to say.

They are terrified. All of them.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 3:08:50 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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OK, Lloyd, what are you going to do about it?

Would you happen to know anybody who can get them out, Mr. SecDef?


19 posted on 08/20/2021 3:18:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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A buck private who loses his rifle is punished more than woke generals that lose a war.

Lose a war and a couple hundred Blackhawks, some biometrics gear, some humvees, a few thousand Americans, etc etc etc.

20 posted on 08/20/2021 3:20:51 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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