In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul

Just the News ^ | August 31, 2021 - 11:19pm | Susan Katz Keating and John Solomon

[Hojczyk]

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success," while his Pentagon portrayed a prosaic, workaday process to repatriate Americans still stranded in the war-torn country.

But text messages between U.S. military commanders and private citizens mounting last-minute rescues tell a far different story, one in which pleading American citizens were frantically left behind at the Kabul airport gate this past weekend to face an uncertain fate under Taliban rule while U.S. officials sought to spread the blame between high-ranking generals and the State Department

"We are [bleep] abandoning American citizens," an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan.

The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.

Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations.

"We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American,'" Yon said Tuesday while appearing on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

[kiryandil]

Das Narrative

[Vision]

Biden has to resign. He is mentally ill. We are not in some sick lala land of his perverse kingdom.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Any Q-tards out there still thinking the cavalry is coming to make things right? This is what the military thinks of you.

[Hojczyk]

https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away

need to read the article...

[libertylover]

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success,"[a complete cluster f***]

I don't think many on this forum are puzzled.

[cgbg]

It is a good thing the classification system is working as designed.

Anything that could damage the credibility of our amazing leaders is Top Secret!

[Ann Archy]

Oooooo, they LAMENTED!!! WHO RESIGNED??? Our once fine military is CORRUPT and INCOMPDETENT!! I don’t mean the boots.....I mean the SUITS! RESIGN!!!

[Lazamataz]

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success,"

He's delusional. He must have delerium and Alzheimers.

Oh, wait....

[NonValueAdded]

"You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport," Yon wrote Tuesday to the commander. "Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind."

[Michael Yon] added: "Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."

[Vermont Lt]

We should start lobbying for cuts in the defense budget. If we are not going to protect Americans, why bother spending money?

We should start telling our children NOT to look to the military for their post high school/college professions. They are like a bad company who does not care about their employees or customers.

And we should be loud about it.

[cgbg]

If the military wants medals these days, they have to engage in Gay Sex in front of a rainbow flag and post videos of it on-line.

[hardspunned]

Whatever the BS narrative is, the reality is the Biden regime is now negotiating how many billions in cash those American hostages are worth.

[NonValueAdded]

"It's not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world," [Pentagon chief spokesclown] Kirby said. "We have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time, and we do everything we can to try to facilitate safe passage."

Kirby, you dipchit, it is not the same as someone stuck in Paris because they lost their passport or a tour group whose return flight was cancelled when their airline went belly up. THEY'RE IN A FREAKING WARZONE, YOU ARSEHOLE.

[I want the USA back]

They will continue to be forgotten because biden declared the mission was successful and the slavish media will promote the same fake narrative.

[billyboy15]

Let’s all remember the military in our country operates under civilian control.

There is a reason for that. The responsibility for Americans left behind lies with this Administration and not our Military.

[bigbob]

They can now enjoy their pensions, knowing that they followed orders like good soldiers.

Unless they get to thinking too much about what constitutes an unlawful order...

[Flick Lives]

“We had them out there waving their passport screaming, ‘I’m American,’” Yon said Tuesday while appearing on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

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No problem. Big tech will wipe you out of existence. Your tortured death will not be noted. You never existed.

[Fido969]

This is only the disaster at hand. The loss of American credibility and status in the rest of the world is going to last forever.

[Pollard]

One man wrote how he spoke to the American mother, and sent photos of her family's passports to Americans inside the airport.

"The Americans recognize it's her and agree but I've been told General Milley won't let them in," the man texted.

The helper group strategized on whether they should send money, how much, and to whom. Ultimately, the family did not get into the airport.

"We get them to the gate, and the U.S. Army completely fails this saying, 'Oh, we can't do it, because the Department of the State tells us we can't do it," Yon told Just the News.

Milley - enemy of American citizens