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Rep. Adam Schiff says it's unlikely that all Americans and allies will get out of Afghanistan by the end of the month, as the Taliban reject efforts to extend deadline
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | August 24th, 2021 | Sarah Al-Arshani

Posted on 08/24/2021 2:16:57 PM PDT by Mariner

The House Intelligence Committee's chair, Rep. Adam Schiff, on Monday said it was unlikely all Americans and allies would be able to get out of Afghanistan by the August 31 deadline.

"I think it's possible, but I think it's very unlikely given the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated, the number of SIV's, the number of others who are members of the Afghan press, civil-society leaders, women leaders," Schiff told reporters. "It's hard for me to imagine all of that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month."

On Sunday, President Joe Biden suggested delaying the full withdrawal of troops from the country to evacuate more Americans and allies who worked with the US and are at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

The Taliban, however, rejected the suggestions and threatened "consequences" if US troops remained in the country after the deadline.

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Not even Adam Schitt believes this is going to get done.

Our darkest hour.

1 posted on 08/24/2021 2:16:57 PM PDT by Mariner
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Our darkest hour.

Biden: hold my ice cream cone, watch this...

2 posted on 08/24/2021 2:17:50 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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Schiff needs to go there and escort Americans to the Kabul airport.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 2:17:57 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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This might be the one time you can believe Adam Schiff......


4 posted on 08/24/2021 2:18:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Instead of flying over jihadis, maybe we can load up some US citizens.

If our citizens aren’t smart enough to come home, then mark them off the list and move on to the ones who have decided it’s time (long past) to get out.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 2:18:52 PM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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I wonder if Biden will kneel and bow down to the Taliban. They may demand it.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 2:21:09 PM PDT by djpg (,)
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Yet, 10’s of thousands of Afghan young males are already being distributed all around this country.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 2:21:52 PM PDT by Old Yeller (We're a nation of surprisingly talented people run by the least talented of us.)
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Are they good at concrete? roofing? lawn care? or just terrorism?


8 posted on 08/24/2021 2:23:13 PM PDT by nascarnation
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It’s all okay, because, Biden has more important things in mind. Like the economy and building-back-better and spending like the world will end tonight.

Afghanistan? Biden and democrats hope that the American collective memories are short, and the current Afghanistan disaster will have been forgotten by year-end.


9 posted on 08/24/2021 2:23:51 PM PDT by adorno
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If our leaders were leaders, then five minutes after our CIA guy left the meeting, a Hellfire would obliterate the Taliban leaders. Then our CIA guy goes to the next group and asks them if they want the same treatment.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 2:23:52 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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Caliph Baraq skated on Benghazi, but it did stick to Hillary I believe.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 2:24:42 PM PDT by nascarnation
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Wow - if Schiff is not towing the admin line, Biden’s friend list is emptying.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 2:26:37 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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This is going well.


13 posted on 08/24/2021 2:26:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Let’s dust off that oldie but a goodie from the Carter years: “Remember the Hostages!”


14 posted on 08/24/2021 2:29:49 PM PDT by fhayek
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Paging Ted Koppel. Day 1 is September 1st.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 2:31:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Most Americans will be left behind to the taliban, and forgotten. biden is, however, forcing commercial airlines to fly “refugees” into the USA.

So he kills the USA two ways. By turning the job of torture, rape and killing over to the taliban. By bringing the recipe for future jihadis to the USA in the form of thousands of “refugees” who will soon send for their wiveS, who will come here on our dime, make little future jihadis who will grow up to kill Americans.

joe will get his reward for all this. He’ll be able to live in a luxurious mansion for the rest of his life, like obama, that he will not be able to enjoy thanks to the cloud of obscurity that will be descending around his mind. Jill will, however, have a lot of time to enjoy it.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 2:32:25 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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Schaffer for Brains sees the handwriting on the wall. He’s trying to get himself as far away from thi schiffstorm as possible


17 posted on 08/24/2021 2:32:48 PM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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He also said that the intelligence briefing told them the Afghan government would not hold for the last 6 months . That doesn’t jive with what joe has been spouting .


18 posted on 08/24/2021 2:33:07 PM PDT by katykelly
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Damn autocorrect! Schaffer =Schiff


19 posted on 08/24/2021 2:34:01 PM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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To: Vermont Lt

Jan 20, 2024

“American hostages released in Afghanistan as President Trump sworn in for second term”


20 posted on 08/24/2021 2:34:39 PM PDT by nascarnation
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