Posted on 08/31/2021 3:53:09 AM PDT by blueplum
LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Britain co-ordinated closely with the United States and did not push to keep a gate open at Kabul airport where a suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.
A Politico report on Monday said American forces decided to keep the Abbey Gate open longer than they wanted to allow Britain to continue evacuating personnel.
"We got our civilian staff out of the processing centre by Abbey Gate, but it's just not true to suggest that, other than securing our civilian staff inside the airport, that we were pushing to leave the gate open," Raab told Sky News....
..."Politics is a rough game," he said. "Anyone taking out time during a crisis to give a totally inaccurate, skewed set of reporting, I am afraid lacks any credibility and is probably involved in buck passing themselves."...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Here’s hoping Deep States are turning on one another.
If so, that will be fun to watch!
Why not” They’ve blamed everyone else. Why should the Britts go unscathed?
“...If so, that will be fun to watch!...”
Absolutely.
They’re like piranhas, and when one of their own start to bleed, they feast on em till there’s nothing left but bones.
Whadda fiasco these woke lib/commie jerks are....LOL
>>>>>>>>>>>A Politico report on Monday said American forces decided to keep the Abbey Gate open longer than they wanted to allow Britain to continue evacuating personnel.<<<<<<<<<
Politico attempting to deflect some of the blame from Walkaway Joe.
Before the election someone said they were voting for Dementia Man because Trump had embarrassed us on the world stage. They said we would regain respect under Dementia Man.
Hmmm....Not so much as it turns out. In fact the EXACT OPPOSITE has occurred.
Waiting on my big Told You So opportunity
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