Posted on 02/08/2022 2:25:17 PM PST by Jacquerie
Thousands of Americans were left in Afghanistan after the Biden Administration’s botched withdrawal last summer, according to a stunning new report released by the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Biden administration officials claimed that number of Americans left behind was only 100-150.
According to the report, published by Foreign Relations ranking member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the Biden Administration “did not hold a senior-level interagency meeting to discuss an evacuation or formally task the State Department (State) to contact at risk populations, including Americans, until August 14, just hours before Kabul fell.”
The report reveals that State Department officials believed that on August 17, at the height of the evacuation efforts, between 10,000 and 15,000 Americans were still in Afghanistan.
In the next two weeks, only 6,000 Americans were able to escape the country ahead of the Taliban takeover, leaving as many as 9,000 Americans behind. Yet in testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Blinken claimed that “approximately 100-150 remained in Afghanistan who still wished to depart.”
The report found that the Biden Administration:
• Failed to do any contingency planning for worst-case scenarios. • Ignored intelligence reports about the risk of an imminent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. • Disregarded dissent cables from Foreign Service Officers on the front lines. • Abandoned Bagram Air Base based on arbitrary troop caps and political considerations, hampering the evacuations and the reinserted troops. • Failed to take significant steps to improve the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program despite clear evidence that the program was flawed.
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And there’s never been a true count of who is still stranded there. Absolutely despicable.
And Republicans are letting him do it again.
We all knew damn well they were flat out lying about the number of Americans left behind. This is the worst and most mendacious regime in American history and they need to be cancelled ASAP.
WERE left behind? Did I miss something or are they all back home? They ARE left behind and they ARE ignored by this domestic enemy occupation in the White house.
Bttt.
5.56mm
C’mon. Congressional pubbies always do what is right . . . unless doing what is right might draw negative media and risk reelection.
I’m not doubting the veracity of this report, but where are the family members?
If my children or spouse were left behind I’d be raising hell on every possible platform.
And all the women are sex-slaves. Who are we to question the tenets of islam?
Not Americans
Green cards were issued by the thousands.
It’s unbelievable isn’t it. If this happened under Trump WITHOUT QUESTION the media would be counting days every night on prime time TV”DAY 332 OF THE AFGHAN HOSTAGE CRISIS” but because a brain dead Democrap is in office it is TOTALLY ignored! It infuriates me!
Criminal.
...but the Biden administration did say they were working to get them out, IF THEY WANTED TO LEAVE.
BTW, those same “stranded numbers” were being discussed here on FR just after the surrender.
And it aint too cool over there lately.
https://menafn.com/1103612629/Afghan-People-Starving-Forced-To-Sell-Children-Body-Part-UN-Food-Head
Why isn’t FJB impeached and then HUNG for TREASON?????
It's interesting to note that 10 of the 11 Republican Senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voted to certify Biden as President. Ted Cruz is the only Republican Senator who voted against Biden's electors. Funny that they are upset over Afghanistan, since they played a crucial role in Biden being placed in the position to leave thousands of Americans behind. F*ck them.
The members of the Committee in the 117th Congress are:
Jim Risch, Idaho, Ranking Member
Marco Rubio, Florida
Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Mitt Romney, Utah
Rob Portman, Ohio
Rand Paul, Kentucky
Todd Young, Indiana
Ted Cruz, Texas
John Barrasso, Wyoming
Mike Rounds, South Dakota
Bill Hagerty, Tennessee
I’d like to see the break down done this way.
How many Americans were left that wwre born in the USA and have two at the time of their birth citizen parents. These are natural Americans.
How many were born to one citizen parent and one none citizen parent on American soil.
How many were born to no citizen parents on our soil and granted 14th amendment birth citizenship. Aka anchor babies.
How many were not born on American soil nor to citizen parents but were nationalized direcly themselves. Nationalized citizenship.
How many were granted citizenship based on close family ties to a nationalized citizen aka chain migration citizenship.
Im willing to put money on the natural born citizen count being near zero. With the majority being the last two categories I just listed. So really these were part time Americans and most likely dual nationals having not given up their Afghan passports.
Prove me wrong, I love that coffee drinking meme guy.
99% of these “Americans” are Afghans with green cards stretching their welfare money by spending half the year in Afghanistan.
I agree.
But the Democrat Party made sure to rescue their shills and pet hacks in the so-called “news” media.
“In fact, working in close coordination with the management of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, we have successfully evacuated all 204 of their employees in Afghanistan on U.S. military aircraft earlier this week.” - Biden August 20, 2021
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