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The Daily 202: Here are three big Afghanistan numbers Biden isn't sharing
Washington Post ^ | August 24th, 2021 | By Olivier Knox

Posted on 08/24/2021 1:50:24 PM PDT by Mariner

Looking to blunt bipartisan criticism of President Biden’s handling of the evacuation from Afghanistan and soothe public worries, his administration has started sharing numbers from what he has called “an incredible operation.”

They’ve given the number of military flights and types of aircraft, number of flights by American allies and partners, and the total number of people evacuated since the U.S. military started operating out of the airport in Kabul Aug. 14.

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The prospect, however remote, that Americans might be left behind in a country run by the Taliban and where al-Qaeda and ISIS operate is a national security and political nightmare.

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On Monday, the administration told Congress it had evacuated an estimated 4,000 Americans since Aug. 14, according to congressional sources.

Administration officials did not dispute that number, but didn’t confirm it on the record. On Saturday, the Pentagon had placed that figure at 2,500.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; armingisis; biden; dereliction; dirtyrottenscoundrel; evacuation; lyingliars; rout; surrender
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To: ping jockey

“Everyone that voted for this moron”

are rolling over in their graves.


21 posted on 08/24/2021 3:46:19 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden and pray for his downfall.)
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To: cdcdawg

A fake, flailing, floundering, Fauci-ized president.


22 posted on 08/24/2021 4:05:04 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
At the White House presser she said 57,000 have been evacuated.. I’m calling that bovine fecal material there’s no way they could have went from 4000 up to that latter figure in just 24 hours...

Just like the Covid numbers. All garbage.

23 posted on 08/24/2021 4:24:22 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

She didn’t say they were Americans evacuated.


24 posted on 08/24/2021 4:26:40 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Mariner

The Post? Shocked.


25 posted on 08/24/2021 5:41:35 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Hojczyk

The United States just suffered the GREATEST military defeat of our LIFETIMES, far worse than in Vietnam, because North Vietnam just wanted us out, but had no intention of carrying the war to our shores, in a messianic crusade. And we did not leave THOUSANDS of Americans behind in Vietnam, as Benedict Biden has done in Afghanistan. Benedict will not be able to stop their infiltration amongst the refugees, or across our open southern border.


26 posted on 08/25/2021 5:47:56 AM PDT by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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To: mware

Wonder how many would vote Republican upon return to USA?


27 posted on 08/25/2021 6:21:00 AM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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To: ransomnote

Page 24. Part 9.4 discusses the sovereign assets in the contract should anyone want to see it for themselves.

http://ti-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Albania-Pfizer.pdf


28 posted on 08/25/2021 11:38:18 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB
Page 24. Part 9.4 discusses the sovereign assets in the contract should anyone want to see it for themselves.

http://ti-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Albania-Pfizer.pdf

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Thank you. From your link:


29 posted on 08/25/2021 11:43:35 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Biden believes after a few weeks this will all be forgotten in the fog and haze of a 5 trillion dollar spending bonanza with gifts for every American. In the meantime the Afghanistan evacuation will be touted as the greatest military exercise in history by only presenting total numbers of humans evacuated - not Americans. Biden will be celebrated by the media as the potus that finally had the ballz to end the 20 year war.
As American hostages start getting burned alive and beheaded, the media will do everything in it’s power to hide the videos and deflect.
When the first resulting terrorist attack occurs from this, the media will claim a terrorist named Ahmed Hussein Sadam is actually a white supremist from Possum Run, Arkansas.

As Rush use to say, “the left is so predictable”


30 posted on 08/25/2021 11:50:56 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP ( )
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To: pierrem15

I hardly think it will be considered a success when many international leaders are on the record as calling Joe incompetent.


31 posted on 08/25/2021 12:33:16 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: BuckeyeGOP

The American media can try. But the international media will not. and the web is forever. Even the DS can’t hide from this.


32 posted on 08/25/2021 12:34:59 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB
Their criticisms and others are widely reported in the European media (I read the British and German papers every day).

None of it is repeated in the American media. For example, the German press is reporting that US soldiers forced foreign journalists onto a plane to Qatar.

As far as most Americans go, none of this criticism exists. The American media are as hermetically sealed propaganda instruments as were Pravda and Izvestia in the old days.

33 posted on 08/25/2021 12:42:35 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Well fortunately Democrat and Republican alike don’t see it that way from my perspective.


34 posted on 08/25/2021 2:22:02 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Boogieman

94% of evacuees are non-Americans


35 posted on 08/25/2021 6:18:30 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: ransomnote

Outrageous!


36 posted on 08/25/2021 6:31:11 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Mariner

BiXiden’s Last Stand


37 posted on 08/25/2021 8:00:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: ecomcon

I flew into and out of Afghanistan on C17s several times.

I would say that they hold 300-400 people max in regular seating.

So, to get 20k people out in one day would require at LEAST 50 flights.

No way.

And wasn’t there a story the other day that a flight of a dozen or so C17s went thru Kabul. The first had about 300 passengers, and the rest only had about 100 each.

So 20K passengers in a day? BS!

If you’ve been listening to Glen Beck, you know that the State Department has been slow walking the paperwork to allow people to leave. So painfully few have made it out on the private planes.


38 posted on 08/25/2021 8:05:58 PM PDT by NorthernTraveler
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To: 2harddrive

Great post.


39 posted on 08/26/2021 7:41:07 AM PDT by CottonBall (They aren’t afraid of the virus. They are afraid of free Americans!)
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To: CottonBall

Thank you!


40 posted on 08/26/2021 7:46:40 AM PDT by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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