GOP lawmakers criticized the president’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of the country by Aug. 31.
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BIDEN WILL BE JUST LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES HE WILL LIE
Biden aided and abetted the enemy like the traitor he is.
The surrender occurred February 2020.
Trump is the one who initiated the withdraw six months before leaving office and all the republitards were on board with it. The GOP MUST BE EXTERMINATED.
Headlines in countries worldwide are condemning Biden's withdrawal
Does America have enough our own problems need to taking care of or solved the problems? $5.8 trillion dollars is a lot of money, If this budgets spent in US it help to boost US economy, nevertheless hope that other countries or other religions that want to mess with United States should think twice before acts, If not this reality will happen
Mr. Biden.. it's the Taliban taking over inevitable! No.. because 300,000 strong Afghan soldiers will protect the citizens, yeah… 300,000 useless and fleeing the Taliban.
IDIOTS..all of u..biden harris..nbc cnn abc cbs facebook twitter..incompetent ..all of you..
We've seen the lefts cabinet and what it can do now. They couldn't organize a carpool. They've made us the laughing stock of the world. They've treaded close to sheer dereliction of duty. They had their chance to show us who they are. Many of us tried to have faith in them. What did we get? Our allies question our ability. The world mocks us and we suffer humility. Made the fool. The results. It's not good. We will pay for this for YEARS in our reputation globally. Remember this on election time.
We cannot withstand another 3+ years of this sorry excuse for a President. Unfortunately, the presidential line of succession only guarantees we'd get another useless liberal even if we went all the way down to the end. We need an insurrection to save this country!
Didn't hear the GOP saying anything about the 5,000 taliban leadership and fighters that Trump released last year.
That is BS! GOP was fine with trump's giving Afghanistan to the Taliban, but now they criticize Biden?
Douglas MacArthur
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
AND TO THE 1000s OF U.S. TROOPS..THAT SACRIFICE THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF TRUE PATRIOTISM..THANK YOU..
YOU MANAGE TO SAVE OVER
110,000 MEN…WOMEN..AND CHILDREN..A 1ST IN AMERICAN HISTORY…
THIS GUY SAID IT WELL….
BY DAVID FRENCH
MARCH 3, 2020 12:25 PM EST
The American military in Afghanistan has not failed in its ultimate objective since 9/11. It has kept America safe from any terrible repeat of that dreadful day.
. No, we have not extinguished the Taliban, and no we have not transformed Afghanistan. But we have defended our nation, and we are now defending our nation while suffering only a small fraction of the casualties (and deploying a fraction of the troops) from the height of the Afghan war.
GREAT JOB GUYS..AND I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LOST OF YOUR 13 FELLOW SOLDIERS.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
SO…BIDEN FINALLY TRANSITIONS…AFTER 8MTHS
HE IS SUPPOSED TO FIX THE AFGHANISTAN 20 YR WAR..
MAKE CORVID DISAPPEAR..
EVEN THOUGH THE REPUBLICANS ARE PROMOTING NO MASKS..NO VACCINES..
BIDEN TOOK FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR AFGHANISTAN…ADMITTED HIS FAULTS…APOLOGIZE..AND DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE ANYMORE SOLDIERS FOR A USELESS WAR…SIGN BILLS THAT HELPED AMERICANS SURVIVE THE PANDEMIC..ETC..
BUT THE GUY TELLING FOLKS TO DRINK BLEACH TO KILL CORVID..AND STILL STEALING TAX PAYERS MONEY..
Trump Set to Leave Office with at Least $850,000 of Unpaid Campaign Rally Bills
BY EWAN PALMER ON 11/27/20 AT 6:49 AM
"For the next 18 months, Republicans' job is to do everything that we can to slow down and block the Democrats' radical agenda, and then win the majority and lead," said Roy, whose district also includes the Texas Hill Country and part of Austin.
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas says he wants '18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done'
Sanford Nowlin Jul 8, 2021 8:58 AM
“I don’t vote for anything in the House of Representatives right now,” Roy tells an audience member when he's asked about the White House-backed infrastructure package. He also describes a potential $6 trillion reconciliation plan pushed by Democrats that would include climate change and Medicare expansion as "liberal garbage."
On Tuesday, Activist Lauren Windsor shared the Republican congressman's comments as part of leaked video shot at a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices.
Throughout the 116th Congress, House Democrats have worked to deliver results for the American people, passing legislation to address each pillar of the “For The People” agenda: lower health care costs, higher wages by rebuilding America, and cleaning up corruption and strengthening our Democracy. Over the past two years, the Democratic-led House has passed nearly 600 bills, including legislation to lower health care and prescription drug prices, raise wages, advance economic and retirement security, end gun violence, act on the climate crisis, protect Dreamers, and strengthen voting rights.
While Democrats have worked for the people, Republicans have failed the people. From the facts of the past few years – deaths from COVID-19, the state of the economy, the increase in the deficit, and the number of uninsured Americans – to major legislation blocked by Senate Republicans, to Republicans working against the American people’s priorities, to rampant corruption in the Trump Administration, Republicans have shown that they are not working for the people.
REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED THE PEOPLE: JUST THE FACTS
The veterans wrote that their support for Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan is "as resolute as ever." They said that "it is the right thing to do, no matter how many people in the chattering class want to claim otherwise."
Let us be very clear—the people who got us into this mess have absolutely no right to say a word about how we get out of it. President Biden made a very tough call, knowing that this withdrawal would not be pretty, or flawless. He is cleaning up the terrible situation that the aforementioned people created, and he is dealing with a terrible agreement struck by the previous administration and the Taliban," the letter continued.
The veterans wrote that their support for Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan is "as resolute as ever." They said that "it is the right thing to do, no matter how many people in the chattering class want to claim otherwise."
Although VoteVets describes itself as progressive, it has previously endorsed Democrats and Republicans for office. Of those who signed the letter, VoteVets said that 150 had served in Afghanistan.
"We the undersigned are resolute in our support of President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan," the thousands of veterans said in an open letter, which was published Friday by the political action committee VoteVets.
Although VoteVets describes itself as progressive, it has previously endorsed Democrats and Republicans for office. Of those who signed the letter, VoteVets said that 150 had served in Afghanistan.
"What cannot happen is that the very same elites who pushed us into a 20-year war with no achievable military mission be given an outsized voice to comment on what's happening now.
NEWS
Over 4,300 Veterans Praise Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal: 'Right Thing to Do'
BY JASON LEMON ON 8/20/21 AT 4:22 PM EDT
More than 4,300 veterans signed an open letter praising President Joe Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan, asserting that this was the "right thing to do."
The commander-in-chief — who's had numerous back-and-forths with the military — has recently been under fire for openly disputing remarks made by a pregnant Army widow whose husband was killed in Niger.
After four Army soldiers were killed in the Oct. 4 ambush, Trump remained quiet for 12 days.
All those times President Trump dishonored U.S. veterans and military service
By MEGAN CERULLO and JASON SILVERSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
OCT 23, 2017 AT 11:56 AM
President Trump is a big fan of the military — except, perhaps, those who have been captured or killed
US Reportedly Lost $19 Billion To Fraud, Abuse in Afghanistan
By Ayaz Gul
October 20, 2020 04:39 PM
The Members of Congress Who Profit From War
Here are the senators and representatives who own stock in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and other top defense contractors.
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Among these members of Congress with personal investments in the defense industry are several who sit on committees that determine major sources of funding for defense companies and weapons contractors.
According to a Sludge review of financial disclosures, 51 members of Congress and their spouses own between $2.3 and $5.8 million worth of stocks in companies that are among the top 30 defense contractors in the world.
Taliban says it won’t accept extension to Biden’s Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
By Howard Altman
Monday, Aug 23
A Taliban spokesman in Doha, Qatar, said the new rulers of Afghanistan would not accept an extension to President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
“You can say it’s a red line,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sky News in an interview Monday.
If the US or UK were to seek additional time to continue evacuations — the answer is no,” Shaheen told Sky News. “Or there would be consequences.”
“Total Chaos”: Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Has Become A Full-Fledged Disaster
ERIC LUTZ
OCTOBER 14, 2019 11:57 AM
Everything Donald Trump’s critics warned would happen when he capitulated to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and cleared the way for the Turkish incursion in Syria is bearing out, with the Kurdish death toll continuing to climb. The region had already been shaken by the retreat of U.S. troops from northern Syria earlier this month, allowing Turkish fighters to target the American-allied Syrian Democratic Forces.
Abandoned by the U.S. and under siege from Turkey, SDF turned to Damascus for help, announcing a deal with Bashar al Assad’s Russia-backed government to push back against Erdogan’s offensive. As the New York Times noted Sunday, that will allow government forces into Northern Syria for the first time in years, and gives Moscow significant influence over the region—something U.S. policy had long aimed to limit.
But his decision Sunday to direct all troops to withdraw has exacerbated the disaster, forcing the Kurds to partner with a Russian-backed U.S. enemy and potentially allowing for the resurgence of ISIS. As a senior Trump administration official told the Washington Post Sunday, “This is total chaos.”
THE REPUBLICANS HYPOCRISY.
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HOW ARE WE GOING DEFEND AGAINST OUR ENEMIES..WHEN SOME OF OUR ENEMIES ARE NEXT DOOR…
CONVENIENT AMNESIA?????
The number of US troops who died in war zones rose in 2017, the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, for the first time in six years. As of Dec. 28, at least 33 military personnel had been killed in war zones overseas compared to 26 last year, according to an analysis of casualty statements released by the Pentagon. At least 21 of those died in combat, according to the Pentagon — some in places where the US presence was not widely known.
These US Troops Were Killed In Combat During Trump’s First Year In Office
Most died in Afghanistan, the US's longest-running war, but the first casualty of Trump's term came in Yemen.
Vera BergengruenBuzzFeed News Reporter
Reporting From
Washington, DC
Posted on December 28, 2017,
. This would come without any agreement by the Taliban to cease hostilities against our allies.
The bad faith of the Taliban is already evident. There are reports today of renewed fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces, and the Taliban have reportedly already rejected any talks with the Afghan government until the Afghans release 5,000 Taliban prisoners. The Afghan government is understandably reluctant to simply give thousands of reinforcements back to its deadly enemy.
There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and they’d be right to be angry.
We’re forgetting the lessons of our recent past. In 2011, the Obama administration removed the last remaining military footprint from Iraq. It did so when American enemies in Iraq were far weaker than American enemies in Afghanistan. And, unlike the Trump administration, it did not deliberately seek to reinforce those enemies as it left. Yet three years later, American forces were back. The rise of ISIS led to killing on a mass scale and metastasized the international terror threat under ISIS. America was compelled to respond.
The bad faith of the Taliban is already evident. There are reports today of renewed fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces, and the Taliban have reportedly already rejected any talks with the Afghan government until the Afghans release 5,000 Taliban prisoners. The Afghan government is understandably reluctant to simply give thousands of reinforcements back to its deadly enemy.
A war-weary American public should resist the Trump administration’s retreat. It should not tolerate any agreement that reinforces and strengthens the Taliban. There are things that are worse than “endless war,” and if we doubt that truth, there is a memorial in downtown Manhattan that should remind us that mortal threats can emerge even from the farthest reaches of the earth.
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. This would come without any agreement by the Taliban to cease hostilities against our allies.
At this point, the deal looks worse than a simple withdrawal. America can leave all on its own without also agreeing to seek the release of Taliban prisoners. It can leave all on its own without promising to ease sanctions. So why agree to the additional concessions?
President Trump's Disgraceful Peace Deal with the Taliban
BY DAVID FRENCH
MARCH 3, 2020 12:25 PM EST
There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and they’d be right to be angry.
If you read the peace agreement itself, you’ll note immediately that it gives the Taliban a series of concrete, measurable gifts. First, there’s an immediate allied withdrawal – down to 8,600 American troops (and proportionate numbers of allied troops) within 135 days. The remainder of American and allied forces will leave within 14 months.
At the same time, the United States will immediately and substantially reinforce the Taliban by seeking the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners by March 20. Even worse, the United States further agreed to a goal of “releasing all remaining prisoners over the course of the subsequent three months.” It will do this at the same time that it commits to the “goal” of removing sanctions from members of the Taliban that include travel bans, asset freezes, and an arm
16 Republicans voted against visas for Afghans who helped US including Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene
Bevan Hurley
August 18, 2021, 12:39 pm
Republican lawmakers who voted against granting visas to 8,000 Afghans who supported the United States’ war effort against the Taliban are facing renewed criticism.
This was a republican war Biden put and end to this madness good for him. The republican death merchants
Critizice because the money flow!!
The consequence of this delayed effort was that the Trump administration took months to come up to speed and, in some cases, suffered permanent damage.
It now appears as though Donald Trump is attempting to inflict the same dilapidated results on his successor by denying the transition required by law
Trump Delayed His Transition
The Trump presidential transition in 2016-17 proved that a transition delayed is a transition denied.
.” It was not until weeks after the election that his hastily assembled transition teams began to show up at federal agencies. The consequence of this delayed effort was that the Trump administration took months to come up to speed and, in some cases, suffered permanent damage.
It now appears as though Donald Trump is attempting to inflict the same dilapidated results on his successor by denying the transition required by law.
With only 11 weeks, a transition delayed is a transition denied
Tom WheelerWednesday, November 18, 2020
As we enter the second week since the 2020 presidential election, similar cooperation is nonexistent from the outgoing Trump administration. Instead, The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump’s White House “instructed senior government leaders to block cooperation with president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team.”
The transition between presidential administrations is an intense 11-week process. This week is the second week of that process. Almost 20% of the time allotted to organize the activities of 2.1 million federal employees and a $4.8 trillion federal budget has elapsed.
Amid an expanding pandemic that has infected over 10 million people and killed almost a quarter million Americans, presidential petulance rules. The Trump ban on cooperation, for instance, has meant that the Biden team cannot even talk to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the other experts whose input will be essential for saving lives and getting the United States back on its feet.
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