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The Kabul airlift has ended, but a US operation to get 14,000 people off a base in Germany is far from over
CNN ^ | Sept. 1, 2021 | Atika Shubert

Posted on 09/01/2021 7:29:33 AM PDT by deport

"This is now my family -- at least until they get off our airpatch," Olson, the installation commander at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, told CNN as we drove past tent after tent. "It's my family and I got to figure out how to protect them."

Ramstein is one of the largest US airbases outside America and has become a crucial hub for the evacuation from Afghanistan following the Taliban take over. Since August 20, about 106 planes have landed there -- mostly C-17s, their cargo bays crammed with hundreds of evacuees at a time. The airbase was ready with tents to house 10,000 people -- but they quickly filled up.

As of Wednesday morning, almost 12,000 evacuees had left the airbase, while another 14,900 remained. The number of evacuees to have arrived at Ramstein so far is nearly triple the population of the German municipality that hosts the base.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; evacuation

1 posted on 09/01/2021 7:29:33 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Watch them all get dumped in Lewiston, ME.


2 posted on 09/01/2021 7:30:41 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: deport

Jihadists heading our way.


3 posted on 09/01/2021 7:31:06 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: deport

Nobody fixes anything by removing the population of an entire country to elsewhere in the world.


4 posted on 09/01/2021 7:35:24 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: deport

Be careful to keep little German boys away from them.


5 posted on 09/01/2021 7:36:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: deport

NY State is a special place, completely run by leftists and progressives, which survives mostly due to Wall Street and printed money, while upstate NY becomes further depopulated

So they dump “migrants” in sad towns like Utica or Rochester, which has two “benefits” - it keeps population numbers and census figures up, and even “better” it grows government and the nanny state to provide for them.


6 posted on 09/01/2021 7:40:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: deport

vomit


7 posted on 09/01/2021 7:43:25 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: deport

“ “This is now my family — at least until they get off our airpatch,” Olson, the installation commander at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, told CNN”

Is being a sissy sensitive guy a requirement to be a base commander now?
Take any WWII or Korean War general and imagine them saying that. 14,000 goat humping moslems headed to America. Just great.
Oops, I mean 14,000 interpreters.


8 posted on 09/01/2021 7:45:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: deport

The next influx of homeless tent dwellers.


9 posted on 09/01/2021 7:46:36 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes they’ll bring enough ‘military aged men’ to have beaten the Taliban, ISIS et al...

and they will be on welfare free food housing medical etc that our own American seniors and disabled veterans cant get...

For years...

100,000 young men make up quite an army...


10 posted on 09/01/2021 7:52:37 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: deport

those arriving in Virginia and Wisconsin had no identification papers. Any idea how many Taliban terrorists are amongst them???


11 posted on 09/01/2021 7:53:48 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: billorites

“Watch them all get dumped in Lewiston, ME.”

At least they’ll vote Collins out! lol


12 posted on 09/01/2021 8:10:42 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: deport
I laughed out loud when Joe said this was wholly incomparable and THE most efficient and successful airlift in history.

NONE of these clowns read any history!

He obviously doesn't remember ‘The Big Lift’. At the end of WWII, USAF delivered tons of medicine, food, coal, etc. into Berlin, daily ... and around the clock. Without mishaps, planes landed every day and all day long at about 15 minute intervals with nearly split second timing!

Everything was delivered to Templehoff air field ... Our guys loved barnstorming VERY close, right over the roof tops of the Russians’ barracks! Their windows and doors rattled incessantly and glass broke. One Russian said they were going crazy listening to that!! 🤣

13 posted on 09/01/2021 8:54:22 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: George from New England

Clearly the problem is the earth in Afghanistan, same as Africa. It’s not the people.

Same for schools in our inner cities. It’s not the humans, but the books and walls.


14 posted on 09/01/2021 9:06:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: deport

Don’t bring them here.


15 posted on 09/01/2021 9:12:03 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: deport

Direct them to Saudi Arabia


16 posted on 09/01/2021 9:15:37 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: deport

If the Demorats had succeeded in canceling the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote under Obama, would Trump have ever got into office ??

Think about that one.


17 posted on 09/01/2021 9:26:30 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: billorites

Lewiston already got 1 “dump”...

I think its only fair if the split the 14000 between theses 10 places...

Here are the 10 most liberal places in Maine for 2019:

South Portland (Photos)
Westbrook (Photos)
Portland (Photos)
Rockland (Photos)
Ellsworth (Photos)
Bath (Photos)
Biddeford (Photos)
Saco (Photos)
Belfast (Photos)
Gardiner (Photos)


18 posted on 09/01/2021 3:25:20 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: deport

I doubt many who aren’t out now will ever get out. This will be another reneging on surrender-monkey promises to the victors. Like Nixon and Kissinger did after the Paris Accords with our soldiers, leaving behind hundreds.


19 posted on 09/01/2021 4:43:06 PM PDT by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty. )
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To: deport

I doubt many who aren’t out now will ever get out. This will be another reneging on surrender-monkey promises to the victors. Like Nixon and Kissinger did after the Paris Accords with our soldiers, leaving behind hundreds.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 4:45:53 PM PDT by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty. )
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