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Afghanistan: Tony Blair Says withdrawal was driven by imbecilic slogan
BBC News ^ | 08/22/2021 | By George Bowden & Lauren Turner

Posted on 08/22/2021 4:54:29 PM PDT by AZJeep

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was wrong and based on an "imbecilic" slogan, former PM Tony Blair has said.

He described the decision to withdraw troops from the country as "tragic, dangerous and unnecessary".

Mr Blair, who sent troops into Afghanistan 20 years ago, said UK involvement in Afghanistan was not a "hopeless endeavour" despite the Taliban takeover.

And the sacrifice made by British troops "was not in vain", he added. Mr Blair said achievements in the country over the past 20 years - including a generation growing up without Taliban rule - was a "good cause" that "matters today,

He said the Taliban "will give protection and succour to Al Qaeda - you've got Isis trying to operate in the country at the same time".

"You look round the world and the only people really cheering this decision are the people hostile to Western interests," he added.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; blair; bliar; california; clickbait; collapse; dubya; foreverwars; georgebowden; imbecilic; isis; laurenturner; nancypelosi; nomoreforeverwars; rop; taliban; tonyblair; unitedkingdom; waronterror; xiden
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To: AZJeep

One reason Afghanistan fell is that George W. Bush took focus away from it by invading Iraq. And who helped little Georgie invade Iraq? Why, it was Tony Blair (UK’s prime minister at he time).

Maybe you should just keep quiet about damn near everything, Tony.


21 posted on 08/22/2021 5:20:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: AZJeep
Black Lives Matter? Defund the Police? America Last? Green New Deal? We Are Back? Joe and the Hoe?

All of the above?

How many Biden slogans are there?

22 posted on 08/22/2021 5:22:22 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Rebelbase

I’d say neutron bombs or nothing.


23 posted on 08/22/2021 5:22:26 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ifinnegan

I think China owned him and will be pulling his strings as long as he is president.


24 posted on 08/22/2021 5:23:19 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (FI miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: romanesq

Definitely trying to blame Trump. Donald Trump is the only leader smart enough, and honest enough to call the Globalists on their evil game of endless pointless wars that no one is ever supposed to win.


25 posted on 08/22/2021 5:23:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: Mat_Helm
How many Biden slogans are there?

Don't forget

Caliph Baraq is my homeboy

26 posted on 08/22/2021 5:24:08 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: AZJeep

There is a reason for that.


27 posted on 08/22/2021 5:32:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: AZJeep

“The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was wrong and based on an “imbecilic” slogan..”

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was wrong and based on an imbecile...


28 posted on 08/22/2021 5:33:33 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: AZJeep

Why does anyone care what Tony Blair has to say?


29 posted on 08/22/2021 5:34:02 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: dfwgator
>> Takes one to know one. This guy was Bush’s lapdog all those years. <<

You sound like BBC, pretending Blair was Bush's BFF even though he was a hardcore Clintonite and had ZERO common ground with Bush on ANY issue besides Iraq.

Apparently Blair didn't get the memo he was "Bush's lapdog" when he championed gay marriage and taxpayer funded abortion on demand.

30 posted on 08/22/2021 5:41:15 PM PDT by BillyBoy ("States rights" is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: GOPJ

“ or by getting out in an orderly fashion”

A/K/A losing.


31 posted on 08/22/2021 5:41:41 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: libertylover

No more forever wars!

https://cv4a.org/project/no-more-forever-wars/


32 posted on 08/22/2021 5:49:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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To: AZJeep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Wgrz05MVc


33 posted on 08/22/2021 5:52:01 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: ImpBill

“Victory being defined as the total annihilation of the stated enemy.”

When in our history did we ever do that?


34 posted on 08/22/2021 5:52:34 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: Mat_Helm

Joe Biden called a “Retard” live on international news!


35 posted on 08/22/2021 5:53:04 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: AZJeep

A geriatric imbecile doing Barak Obama’s bidding.

IMPEACH NOW!


36 posted on 08/22/2021 5:59:56 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
I am not going to argue with you over semantics. You know what I meant. The bigger question is why you would want to pick a disagreement? Rhetorical question.
37 posted on 08/22/2021 6:04:03 PM PDT by ImpBill (An American EXPAT in America.)
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To: AZJeep

Blair was being too kind.

imbecile (IQ of 26–50)
idiot (IQ of 0–25).


38 posted on 08/22/2021 6:12:06 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: hole_n_one

Forever wars can be ended the way Rome ended the war with Carthage.


39 posted on 08/22/2021 6:23:15 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The crowd was chanting "Death to America", but they were a mostly friendly crowd.)
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To: AZJeep

I am 100% convinced this was deliberate by Xiden and the rest of the domestic enemies in his administration solely to boost China on the world stage. 100% flat out treason and if we had a real party, these traitors would be removed from office, tried and executed.

They leave behind US citizens and billions in US weapons in Afghanistan? Oh yeah, that was just an accident, yeah that was Joe just being stupid. No it wasn’t, it was deliberate to harm the USA as much as possible. We KNEW the domestic enemy party was hellbent on destroying the USA, well what better way to do it? We are now seen as pure pond scum in the eyes of the world and what’s especially disgusting is we all know nothing will be done about it because we no longer have a party


40 posted on 08/22/2021 6:29:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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