Posted on 09/12/2024 8:17:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby said that addressing veterans’ concerns about the botched Afghanistan withdrawal was of “no use” in a reply-all faux pas.
The blunder occurred on Wednesday, the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when Fox News sought comments from the White House regarding criticism related to Afghanistan.
Instead of responding solely to the White House aides who had forwarded him the email, Kirby mistakenly included everyone on the email chain, including the Fox News reporter.
“Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” Kirby dismissively replied in his email. The term “one stripe” appeared to belittle the veterans by mocking their years of service.
After realizing the error, Kirby sent a follow-up email to the Fox News reporter: “Clearly, I didn’t realize you were on the chain.”
Kirby’s comments ignited widespread backlash on social media, with many demanding his immediate resignation or firing.
“In an administration with someone in charge, his resignation would be on the desk tomorrow,” commented podcast host Stephen L. Miller.
In an administration with someone in charge, his resignation would be on the desk tomorrow. https://t.co/PUv2YlZqF6
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 11, 2024
“John Kirby is a bad guy and is also just plain bad at his job,” said Kabul author and journalist Jerry Dunleavy IV.
John Kirby is a bad guy and is also just plain bad at his job.https://t.co/sTeVfhwBxI
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) September 11, 2024
Other critics sounded the alarm about what other disparaging comments the White House might have privately said about veterans.
This Kirby scandal follows the release of a House Foreign Affairs Committee report two days prior. The comprehensive and damning report exposes the deadly errors by the Biden-Harris administration in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
On Aug. 26, 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. servicemen as the Taliban seized Kabul, while the U.S. struggled to evacuate.
These deaths have long been attributed to both Biden and Harris for ignoring the signs and intelligence of an impending fall of Kabul. Roughly 1,000 Americans, $7 billion in U.S. weaponry and $57 million in cash were left behind.
Kirby rebuked the report as showing “little or nothing new,” and without clear evidence argued that Biden had no choice but to withdraw from Afghanistan to avoid extending the war.
Straight gaslighting from Biden-Harris White House official John Kirby, arguing it's President Trump who should be blamed for the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021, which resulted in the deaths of 13 American soldiers. pic.twitter.com/fPIFMa6OzV
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 9, 2024
This deflection prompted veterans to criticize Kirby, leading to Fox News seeking his comment and Kirby committing his reply-all blunder.
“The bottom line is that the Biden-Harris administration chose politics over strategy, and Kirby, who I wouldn’t trust to guard my grocery list, is now trying to cover for them,” Army veteran and Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., told Fox News.
John Kirby is a complete _______________ (I’ll let people just say it to themselves to keep the site family-friendly)
He was also lying about something to do with American citizens - it was so obvious on his face - really obvious
This clown was once an admiral in the US Navy. Do all flag officers there share his contempt for veterans? Could be, since all rank above O-6 is the land of politics.
So many snakes.
The grave yards are full of "one strip" combat veterans...
What a traitorous piece of shit Kirby is.
Trump should have bashed Harris for saying that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a good deal for the US because we were no longer paying for occupying Afghanistan.
So to her, the Fall of Saigon was the blueprint for Afghanistan and the Rats are proud of it. The President should have beaten that like a drum at the debate.
I don’t think he meant “one stripe” as a comment on rank. “Of one stripe” usually means “of one type”. He meant they were probably all conservatives, so he wanted nothing to do with them. Only liberal service members who spout unwavering support for the administration’s debacles are worth his time.
IMHO
Love,
O2
A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” Kirby dismissively replied in his email. The term “one stripe” appeared to belittle the veterans by mocking their years of service.
No, it means of one political stripe: conservative. Not one-stripers.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
For a 2.5 minute lesson from Gilbert and Sullivan on how to rise in the ranks to Kirby’s level (with a special section on knob-polishing), go here:
White House trashes the military and here you have actual PROOF..not the nonsense about suckers and losers which had ZERO evidence yet the media still runs with that lie but here you have actual PROOF that the White House hates the military and trashes them and CRICKETS from the media
“Let All That Has Been Concealed,
Be Revealed”
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Ha. He’s like the idiots who reply to all telling others to quit replying to all because they’re jamming up the email system.
Everyone knows what path this POS took to get to where he is.
1) I thought $85 billion in material was left behind on Afghanistan? Here they say “$7 billion in weapons”?
2) “…A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe…” I took the phrase ‘all of one stripe’ to mean ‘all of a kind.’ Low-ranking personnel on a security detail at a checkpoint where an attack could be expected to occur. If he meant service personnel on their first overseas/combat tour in a war zone, that did not immediately occur to me.
That is how I took it too, but I have seen to much of what this Democrat Party, this Administration and this person are capable of to display any forbearance.
I have come to the conclusion anyone serving or has served who supports the Democrat agenda has broken the oath they took when they entered the military, and should be treated with the lack of respect and consideration that entails.
Kirby was never really an Admiral. I would opine he was quite the cabin boy though.
Also, I understand that the Biden Administration changed details of the withdrawal plan, such as reversing the order of giving up the airfields and bases. That is, Trump planned for Baghram to be the final base given up at the end of the withdrawal, rather than the smaller/less secure Kabul that Biden finally withdrew from.
McCain called him a “idiot”!
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