Posted on 03/08/2023 5:57:39 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — Some of the thousands of Afghans denied help during the August 2021 evacuation of US forces from Kabul chose horrific deaths rather than risk capture by the Taliban after helping Americans during their 20-year war there, a Marine told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews described what he called the “surreal” horror he and other US service members saw during the chaotic and deadly evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport while testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Some Afghans turned away from HKIA tried to kill themselves on the razor wire in front of us that we used as a deterrent,” he said.
“They thought this was merciful compared to the Taliban torture that they faced.”
While the US and coalition forces evacuated nearly 130,000 people during the weeks-long mission, hundreds more Americans and thousands of their Afghan allies were left behind.
Vargas-Andrews was one of the roughly 5,800 troops Biden sent to help evacuate Kabul during the final weeks of the conflict.
He was also among the dozens of troops injured when an ISIS-K terrorist bombed the airport’s Abbey Gate, killing 13 US service members and more than 160 Afghans.
“Hundreds of people came in waves, surging through the gate multiple times, physically fighting us …” he said.
“Nothing prepared us for the ground experience we were about to encounter.”
As the mission entered its final days, the situation degenerated into “chaos” as Vargas-Andrews and his fellow Marines “worked together to figure out the next best steps [as] tens of thousands of people descended upon” the airport’s main gate.
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You think that was bad, wait to see how Biden’s Ukie war ends.
the exit from Afghanistan... Biden’s shining hour
This is infuriating. It’s even worse:
BIDEN EFFECT: US Marine Sniper Testifies to Congress That He Was Denied Permission to Shoot and Kill Kabul Airport Suicide Bomber Who Killed 13 US Service Members
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/biden-effect-us-marine-sniper-testifies-to-congress-that-he-was-denied-permission-to-shoot-and-kill-kabul-airport-suicide-bomber-who-killed-13-us-service-members/
Biden is so dumb he couldn’t get this straight:
Remove friendlies
Remove valuables or destroy
Withdrawal to 1-2 airports and remove troops.
Or….
He actually intended for the wealth and friends to fall into enemy hands. I don’t see any other possibilities? Do you?
Let’s Go, Brandon!
Deliberate?
No, just very stupid. And Biden wasn’t at fault, because he is a potted plant. The US executive is a strange sort of committee. It was likely the usual incoherence and competing agendas of committee leadership. Add in bureaucratic stovepiping and myopia among multiple agencies besides the Pentagon itself, which engaged in egregious micromanagement.
The whole system is sick.
There’s an end?
Think of the contribution that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees could have made in the northern tier States.
These are people who tried to hitch a ride on the sides of our planes...they probably didn’t know it was sharp.
If Aghanis had chosen to fight, they would not have had to choose to commit suicide.
If it’s that bad we are probably in deep S$%T.
Biden and his goons don’t care about most Americans or American Service men and women.
Why would anyone think Biden’s filth would care about Afghans?
And you’re right - Biden doesn’t care about the Ukrainian people.
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