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Psaki claims no Americans 'stranded' in Afghanistan in heated exchange
Fox News ^ | 8/23/21 | Cameron Cawthorne

Posted on 08/23/2021 2:08:37 PM PDT by conservative98

White House press secretary Jen Psaki grew visibly annoyed during the press briefing Monday when she was asked whether President Biden was aware that most of the criticism against the Afghanistan withdrawal was about Americans being "stranded" in Kabul.

"Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan? It's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded. Does he have a sense of that?" Fox News' White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked.

Psaki said it was "irresponsible" to say that Americans are stranded in Afghanistan. "I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They are not. We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home."

Doocy followed up and asked whether "there are no Americans stranded" is the official White House position.

"I'm just calling you out for saying we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home," Psaki said. "We are going to bring them home and I think that's important for the American public to hear and understand."

Doocy later asked Psaki whether Americans being beaten up by the Taliban and Afghans passing babies over barbed-wire fences was what Biden meant when he said, "America is back."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; americans; biden; dereliction; kabul; media; peterdoocy; psaki; rout; surrender
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1 posted on 08/23/2021 2:08:37 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

She on the same drugs as Biden?


2 posted on 08/23/2021 2:09:24 PM PDT by madison10
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To: conservative98

Fast talker but dull witted. In other words a typical democrat operative.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 2:10:34 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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To: conservative98

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength


4 posted on 08/23/2021 2:10:34 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: conservative98

How dare you! They are not stranded. They were abandoned. Get it straight!


5 posted on 08/23/2021 2:11:11 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: conservative98

The Americans who are “not stranded” need to watch this video from the 1950s on how to defend themselves from the Taliban.

The video—Duck and Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60


6 posted on 08/23/2021 2:11:13 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: conservative98

Telling the truth is irresponsible? Or just inconvenient?


7 posted on 08/23/2021 2:11:15 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: monkeyshine

Possibly abandoned on purpose.

A large scale Benghazi.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 2:11:44 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: conservative98

Baghdad Colonel Klebb


9 posted on 08/23/2021 2:11:45 PM PDT by twister881
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To: conservative98

Another example of the truth being irrelevant to the Left. They never concede an inch.


10 posted on 08/23/2021 2:12:00 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: madison10

They just define words to suit the moment. Nobody is stranded. They can’t be stranded, ever. Nobody left there wanted to leave, hence not stranded.

The facts being contrary is of no matter.


11 posted on 08/23/2021 2:12:14 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: monkeyshine

If the majority of the Americans are members of the state department they are no doubt happy to take one for the team.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 2:12:54 PM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: madison10

That assertion will not last long, IMHO.


13 posted on 08/23/2021 2:13:04 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: conservative98

That Psaki chit is truly deplorable.


14 posted on 08/23/2021 2:13:05 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: conservative98

She does hate Peter Doosey.


15 posted on 08/23/2021 2:13:43 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: conservative98

Media finally doing its job. Until they get a call from the White House warning them about what will happen if they don’t fall into line.


16 posted on 08/23/2021 2:14:53 PM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: conservative98

To keep it clean as I can, I’ll just say Psaki is just as big a useless “C” as Camel toe Harris is.


17 posted on 08/23/2021 2:15:17 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: conservative98

Well, she didn’t say they’d bring them back alive./s


18 posted on 08/23/2021 2:15:23 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (~Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.~)
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To: conservative98
We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.

With this admin that translates to, "Dead or alive".

19 posted on 08/23/2021 2:15:46 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Biden didn't win the election but he and his anti-MAGA crew did win the WH - shame on the U.S.)
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To: conservative98; Cboldt
There's that bizarre line again:

"Americans that want to return home."

What does that even mean?

20 posted on 08/23/2021 2:15:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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