Posted on 02/11/2022 1:37:13 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
President Biden on Thursday said he rejected the findings of an Army investigative report in which military officials reportedly criticized Biden administration officials for failing to grasp the situation in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew.
Asked about the report during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday, Biden said that it didn’t square with his impression of the administration's handling of the withdrawal.
“No, that’s not that I was told,” Biden said when asked if the details of the investigation, which was reported by The Washington Post, rang true to him. “There was no good time to get out, but if we had not gotten out, they acknowledged we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back in.” ADVERTISEMENT
Asked if he was rejecting the findings of the report, Biden replied, “Yes, I am.”
“I am rejecting them,” he said.
The Post reported earlier this week that the Army report stretches thousands of pages and contains sworn testimony from commanders involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer.
According to The Post, military officials quoted in the document accused White House and State Department officials of not recognizing the swift advance of the Taliban as U.S. forces withdrew from the country. It reportedly points to disagreements over how to handle the evacuation of Americans and at-risk Afghans.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a low point for Biden in his first year in office. While a majority of Americans support withdrawing from the country, the chaotic nature of the U.S. military exit spawned criticism from Republicans and Democrats of the administration’s handling of it.
Biden has firmly defended his decision to withdraw, saying that remaining in Afghanistan would have cost more American lives and forced the U.S. to commit more forces to fight off the Taliban.
Asked about the Army report earlier this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted the administration was prepared for “a range of contingencies,” but noted that U.S. officials did not anticipate Afghanistan falling to the Taliban as quickly as it did.
“There was a range of contingency planning that was done in close coordination by all of the players on the national security team at the time to prepare for a range of options and a range of outcomes,” Psaki said.
Top commander: Afghanistan evacuation hampered by appeals from White House officials, members of Congress
Overnight Defense & National Security — Top commander vents on Afghan evacuation
Denial is a wonderful aphrodisiac ... /s
He is like a psychopathic Homer Simpson. Too stupid to be a serial killer, but ambitious and evil enough to be a serious problem for that part of the world he comes into contact with.
😂
“He is like a psychopathic Homer Simpson.”
That is absolutely a classic line, and like all humor, it has a good bit of truth to it. Bravo Sir.
Me-first Biden is a shallow pol, a pathetic liar, devoid of conscience, lacking inner substance that might nag him about his serial flops and failures.
He is too stupid to be a serial killer, but ambitious and evil enough to be a serious problem for that part of the world he comes into contact with.
Unfortunately, for us, we, the people, pay a heavy price for this.
Biden: ‘I’m Rejecting’ Claims in Army Report We Weren’t Prepared for Afghanistan Withdrawal, But I Wasn’t Told We Were Prepared
‘From the White House on down,’ pleas for help
disrupted Afghan evacuation, top U.S. commander says
Washington Post ^ | 2/10/2020 | Dan Lamothe
Posted on 2/10/2022, 4:21:16 PM by TomServo
The U.S. military mission to evacuate American citizens and foreign allies from Afghanistan was hampered by continuous appeals for help from an array of advocates including White House officials, Jill Biden, members of Congress, veterans of the war, media outlets and even the Vatican, according to the operation’s senior commander.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Full story at Daily Mail…
m ^ | Posted by Kane on February 10, 2022 3:26 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10498941/Commander-charge-Kabul-evacuation-slams-White-House-distraction-chaos.html
The only impression Biden has of all that is that the Pudding Pop they gave him was Count Chokula that day.
A born govt parasite....those manicured, lily white hands never did a lick of real work. Brazenly wears an $18 thousand Rolex bought by selling his office. Spends lge amts of time grooming himself for the cameras.
Too funny. 😂
It that Slo Joe, or is that one of the “not” Joe’s.
Look at his photo’s over the past 2 years. Look at the chin and tell me they are all the same.
Look at his speeches, beginning with his nomination acceptance speech.
They are not all the same.
Of course he does. He does not want to believe he is the F up he is.
I’m sure he does. Now the revisionists have to revise their own work to pass it off. It’s no longer just old white men from two hundred years ago. It’s now old white man from 200 days ago.
His incompetence is painfully transitory.
Their right hands are full of bribes.
We’re supposed to believe the Capitol police on Ashli Babbitt Rosanne Boyland.
Hah.......
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