Posted on 09/09/2024 1:25:48 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON – Much of the $7.1 billion in military equipment and technology President Biden left behind in Afghanistan after his botched withdrawal was still operable despite Pentagon claims to the contrary – including fingerprint devices the Taliban later used to track down down American’s abandoned Afghan allies, according to a comprehensive report by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the fiasco.
Throughout the August 2021 withdrawal and its aftermath, both the Defense Department and the Harris-Biden administration repeatedly asserted that “nearly all equipment used by US military forces in Afghanistan was either retrograded or destroyed prior to our withdrawal.”
However, the report, released Sunday following a nearly two-year investigation, indicated that the administration’s denials were largely semantics.
While the US military destroyed or moved most of its own equipment, they left intact billions in weapons and materiel transferred to the Afghan military, which collapsed along with the Western-backed Kabul government before the last American troops left the central Asian nation on Aug. 30, 2021.
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I have a fucking comment. I hope that shithead dies a painful death. Just passing on a comment from a friend and Veteran.
Super Incompetence ,people must go the Jail
I just clapped at your comment
Kamala says she was the last to leave the room after the decision to leave Afghanistan was made.
What say YOU Kamaaaaaaala?
I hope Trump brings this up tomorrow night at the debate.
Because.......Trump.
<< damning report >>
That won’t be reported anywhere in the mainstream media.
ChiComjoe and his civilian and military kakistocrats gave overwhelming aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. The Constitution has a word for that.
By refusing to prosecute, the DOJ has joined as an accomplice in the treason.
I believe it represents the "Find Out" portion of Biden's FAFO activities.
Anyone surprised? Remember Obama said: Never underestimate Biden’s ability to f**k things up.
Erik Prince claims he had convinced Trump to leave a relatively small force of American contractors / mercenaries, to occupy Bagram Airbase and Kabul area (thus preserving control of the government), and a couple of other small bases.
The operation would have been run completely outside of DoD management and rules of engagement - at a small fraction of the cost.
He claims Trump was persuaded otherwise by DoD and State Dept apparatchiks.
This doesn’t rise to the level of even being worth a question in the upcoming debate. You have to remember the only things that matter in DC are things that make democrats look good - or make Republicans look bad. And ABC? They’re the biggest haters of all...
bttt
Some insider told me that they also left a passport making machine. Not Good.
And we’re supposed to be upset with Trump because of what is (supposedly) an incorrect entry on an accounting ledger.
While $7B is a lot of money, hasn’t DJT repeatedly said that there was $87B of equipment left behind in Afghanistan?
That’s a huge difference. So which figure is correct? Or are they both wrong?
87 billion is the number I’ve heard for 3 years. This is the first time I’ve heard 7 billion.
“He claims Trump was persuaded otherwise by DoD and State Dept apparatchiks.”
If this story is true, therein lies part of the problem.
If we are blessed enough to have trump back in the White House, he needs to completely realize that all the alphabet agencies (CIA, DOJ, FDA, etc) are his enemies. He’ll have few, if any, friends there.
He was smart enough to ignore the State Dept naysayers and went ahead with the Abraham Accords, a success that no one expected. He needs to be smart enough to ignore these other agencies.
Well said Sir, I salute you!
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