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GOP lawmaker defends attempted Afghanistan rescue mission: ‘I’m not Rambo’
The New York Post ^ | September 4, 2021 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 09/04/2021 7:22:24 PM PDT by Jessarah

A Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma who attempted to fly to Afghanistan as part of a rogue rescue operation at Kabul’s international airport defended the trip Friday night, saying he would “do it again tomorrow.”

However, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, admitted, “I’m not Rambo.”

A Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma who attempted to fly to Afghanistan as part of a rogue rescue operation at Kabul’s international airport defended the trip Friday night, saying he would “do it again tomorrow.”

However, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, admitted, “I’m not Rambo.”

“I never pretended to be Rambo,” Mullin told Fox News’ “Special Report.” “Out of all the guys that I was working with, I’m the low man on the totem pole, and I understood that, but they felt like I could be of assistance to them.”

“How? Logistically, maybe,” he continued. “Open the doors for them, making phone calls, and being able to take in the SIVs [Afghan visa applicants] or the AMCITS [American citizens] as they came onto the plane.”

Mullin, who was first elected to Congress in 2012 and doesn’t have a military background, told host Bret Baier that as the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was winding down, he started getting calls from “friends of mine that was in the service that said, ‘Can you help our interpreter get out?'”

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; mullin; rescueoperation; statedepartment
We need more guys like this in Congress.
1 posted on 09/04/2021 7:22:24 PM PDT by Jessarah
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To: Jessarah

Cory Booker leaped to his feet and shouted “But I am Spartacus!”

Dramatic moment.


2 posted on 09/04/2021 7:23:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Jessarah

I do not believe him. Yes, I believe the Biden Junta was and probably still is trying to prevent rescues, but I do not believe this attention-seeker that he went to Afghanistan and circled in the air.


3 posted on 09/04/2021 7:26:55 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Jessarah

Well, the US BiXiden gooberment is incompetent.

Some people could likely do some good.


4 posted on 09/04/2021 7:27:55 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Jessarah
Markwayne was fine with the Capitol Hill gunman executing Ashli Babbitt.

And he hates Trump, from the safety of his 70% seat in CONgrift.

5 posted on 09/04/2021 7:43:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: PghBaldy; bitt

Check out the interview below
Rep. Mullin blasts Biden after covert rescue mission into Afghanistan was thwarted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGqaLOFGIUU

Below is a video of Rep Michael Waltz and Rep Ronny Jackson who said the same
Post with video
https://twitter.com/RepRonnyJackson/status/1434247962201309187


6 posted on 09/04/2021 8:33:49 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone? )
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To: Jessarah

Everyone should watch Rambo 4.


7 posted on 09/04/2021 9:51:27 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Whenifhow

Thank you for posting the video links. Our POTUS and his state department are traitors to this country.


8 posted on 09/05/2021 3:35:59 PM PDT by Jessarah
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To: Jessarah

Yes you are Rambo , Congressman, but that’s ok. I understand that woman and her 3 kids are out because of you. Keep up the good work.


9 posted on 09/06/2021 10:37:45 AM PDT by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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