During the 2007 Dem primaries, Biden attacked Obama for adopting his position on Afghanistan.
The flailing Biden campaign put out a press release accusing Obama of being a “johnny-come-lately” who had belatedly adopted Biden’s push for “significantly increasing reconstruction assistance” and sending more American soldiers to Afghanistan.
While running for president, Biden had based his entire foreign policy around sending more troops to Afghanistan. He had memorized one line, “if we’re surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan”, and repeated it in the Senate, in interviews, and on the campaign trail.
Sending more troops to Afghanistan, he argued would give America “the moral high ground”.
“The next president of the United States will have to rally the American people and the world to fight them over there, unless we want to fight them over here. But the over there is not, as President Bush has falsely and repeatedly claimed, in Iraq, but it’s rather in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he insisted at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Biden attacked not only Democrat rivals like Obama, but also President Bush, for not wanting to send more troops to Afghanistan. “I asked the commander of British forces how long his people would allow him to stay in Afghanistan. And he said, ‘Senator, we Brits have an expression. As long as the big dog is in the pen, the small dogs will stay. When the big dog leaves, the small dogs leave as well.’ Well, guess what? The big dog left in 2002.”
He was only off by 19 years. Biden was preemptively accusing Bush of his own sins.
By the 2020 primaries, Biden had completely reinvented his entire history with Afghanistan.
“I’m the guy from the beginning who argued that it was a big, big mistake to surge forces to Afghanistan. Period. We should not have done it. And I argued against it constantly,” he falsely claimed.
Biden had gone from attacking Obama for ripping off his idea of surging forces to Afghanistan to being the guy who “from the beginning” had opposed the idea.
The idea that Biden opposed “from the beginning” was the one he originally claimed credit for.
That was quite a turnaround for the fraudster who had spent his previous presidential campaign declaring, “If we’re surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan.”
Biden, one of the co-sponsors of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, which began the nation-building push in that country, also claimed that he was against nation-building.
“Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation-building,” Biden claimed in his recent failed speech after Kabul turned into Saigon.
Afghanistan should not have been about nation-building, but Biden was the loudest voice in support of turning the mission into nation-building. At one hearing he even complained that, “The original Marshall Plan cost $90 billion in today’s dollars. Our total pledge for Afghan reconstruction is less than 1 percent of that, and we’ve only delivered a fraction of this pledge.”
He attacked Bush, whining that his “follow-through commitment to Afghanistan, Afghanistan’s security and reconstruction has fallen very short.”
“Obama and Biden promised a withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. It did not happen.”
So, who inherited what from whom? Hmmm?
This IDIOT has never had an actual position on anything, just a façade to try and lure voters to buy his BS. It took a pretty dim wit to fall for that crap in 2020 after such a long history of lying, but when the media will not call out a SINGLE LIE, lying becomes pretty easy.
This entire debacle is not only idiot Biden’s responsibility, but that of the corrupt media and every idiot that voted for this demonstrated failure and loser.
The war was inherited by every American president following George W Bush.
The screwed-up end game was conceived and locked in by Donald Trump during his final days in office, and left on the Oval Office desk in the spot where he claims to have left The Plan®.
Afghan Fallout: Biden Blows Up His Entire Case For Being President
‘For most of the past week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis of his young administration, the president who won the White House on a promise of competence and compassion has had trouble demonstrating much of either.”
That’s not us saying that. This is how the New York Times described the Afghanistan debacle, which is as sure a sign as any of how much trouble President Joe Biden is in right now.
But we’d go further than the Times. Biden’s backers – and Biden himself – didn’t just portray Joe as competent and empathetic. They said he was experienced, thoughtful, trustworthy, and had sound judgment. That he’d unite the country, and restore America’s standing in the world. That he was, unlike Donald Trump, presidential. It was the basis of Biden’s entire presidential campaign, in fact.
As a reminder, here’s what 70 so-called Republican national security officials said when endorsing Biden in August 2020: “We believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation. We believe he will restore the dignity of the presidency, bring Americans together, reassert America’s role as a global leader, and inspire our nation to live up to its ideals.”
Who can say any of that now with a straight face?
Biden’s utterly inept Afghanistan withdrawal, his bumbling lies and obfuscations, his callous disregard of those put in harm’s way, his refusal to take responsibility, and the devastation his stupidity has caused to America’s “role as a global leader” have undercut every premise of his presidency.
Let’s review.
Competent?
Listen to what Biden said in April about withdrawing from Afghanistan. “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it – we’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely. And we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners, who now have more forces in Afghanistan than we do.”
In July, Biden dismissed the likelihood of a Taliban takeover at all.
Q. Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
Biden: No, it is not.
Q Why?
Biden: Because you — the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.
When asked at the same press conference about the potential for a fall-of-Saigon disaster, Biden insisted that “the Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”
After the Taliban took over the country in a matter of days, Biden suddenly started complaining that Trump had left the Taliban in a stronger position than they’d ever been.
Can anything other than gross incompetence explain his failure to get anything about the withdrawal right?
Empathetic?
At one point in his ABC News interview last week, George Stephanopoulos said: “We’ve all seen the pictures. We’ve seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17. You’ve seen Afghans falling …”
At which point Biden interrupts Stephanopoulos to dismissively say “That was four days ago, five days ago.” (It was only two days ago when he said it.)
Last week, this report also surfaced:
In 2010, Biden reportedly told Richard Holbrooke, then Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the U.S. had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the cost for the Afghan people.
According to Holbrooke, when Biden was asked about America’s obligation to maintain their presence in Afghanistan to protect vulnerable civilians, he scornfully replied by referencing the US exit from southeast Asia in 1973.
“F*** that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
Biden had to arrange yet another press event Friday so he could deliver some carefully scripted “compassion” talking points.
Honest And Trustworthy?
Biden has been caught in a series of lies and fabrications as the Taliban swiftly took control of the country.
In his ABC interview, for example, he claimed that “the intelligence community did not say, back in June or July, that in fact this was going to collapse like it did.”
Biden was either lying or he forgot that State Department officials at the U.S. embassy in Kabul sent a cable with a clear warning in July that just such a collapse was likely.
A reporter brought this up at Biden’s Friday press conference, wanting to know “why, after that cable was issued, the U.S. didn’t do more to get Americans out?” Biden’s response: “We’ve got all kind of cables, all kinds of advice.”
Two days earlier, Stephanopoulos reminded Biden that “your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.”
To which Biden said, “No, they didn’t. It was split. Tha– that wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.”
Except it was true. As the Wall Street Journal reported, “The president’s top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, urged Mr. Biden to keep a force of about 2,500 troops, the size he inherited, while seeking a peace agreement between warring Afghan factions, to help maintain stability.”
Biden has tried to reassure the nation that everything was under control and that those Americans trying to get out of Afghanistan were having no problem doing so, thanks to the kindness of the Taliban.
Biden’s own Defense secretary contradicted this claim, noting “we’re also aware some people, including Americans, have been harassed and even beaten by the Taliban.”
Biden also claimed that leaving the country made sense because “We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as, as well as getting Osama bin Laden, and we did.” His Pentagon spokesman contradicted that claim, saying “We know that al-Qaeda is a presence, as well as ISIS, in Afghanistan.”
Uniter?
Biden managed to alienate just about everyone after he started laying blame for the debacle on Trump, on the Afghan military, and anyone else he could point a finger at.
Global Leader?
In a July 2020 speech, Biden declared that his “foreign policy agenda will place America back at the head of the table, working with our allies and partners – to mobilize global action on global threats.”
Is that so?
The Washington Post reports that U.S. allies are complaining “that they were not fully consulted on a policy decision that potentially puts their own national security interests at risk – in contravention of President Biden’s promises to recommit to global engagement” and that “many around the world are wondering whether they could rely on the United States to fulfill long-standing security commitments stretching from Europe to East Asia.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We thought America was back, while in fact, America withdraws.” Ian Bremmer, director of the Eurasia Group, said that “The decision on how and when to leave was made unilaterally by the Americans, and that’s not the way you treat your allies, frankly.”
Czech President Milos Zeman believes that “by withdrawing from Afghanistan, the Americans have lost their status of global leader.”
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded forces in Afghanistan and later was CIA director, said that “China and Russia are having a field day saying: This is your partner?”
Incredibly, Biden keeps insisting, as he did Friday, that “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.”
Even the New York Times couldn’t stomach that one. In a fact check of his remarks, the Times noted that:
In Germany, the chairman of Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee called the withdrawal “a serious and far-reaching held Biden in contempt miscalculation by the current administration” and said it did “fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West.” …In Britain, the pullout has raised doubts among some officials about the reliability of the United States as an ally. … Latvia’s defense minister, Artis Pabriks, said that the withdrawal caused “chaos” and showed that the West was “weaker globally.”
For some reason, the Times forgot to mention the fact that the day before Biden uttered those words, the British Parliament voted to hold Biden in contempt, with the London Daily Telegraph reporting that “MPs and peers unite to condemn ‘dishonour’ of U.S. president’s withdrawal and his criticism of Afghan troops left behind to face Taliban.”
Crisis doesn’t build character, the saying goes, it reveals it.
“We believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation. We believe he will restore the dignity of the presidency, bring Americans together, reassert America’s role as a global leader, and inspire our nation to live up to its ideals.”
Idiot Biden proved each one of those assertions was a lie on his first day in office. Before this statement was ever made, Hunter’s laptop disproved it all. No one that supported idiot Biden has any excuse for their stupidity other than stupidity.
“To which Biden said, “No, they didn’t. It was split. Tha– that wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.””
What he is saying here is that while almost all his advisors recommended leaving 2,500 troops in Afghanistan (gee… I wonder why they settled on such an “inadequate” number?) but someone somewhere in the back of the room agreed with his stupid idea of pulling all troops out and getting the civilian personnel out later, so this consolidated his once again WRONG instinct.
“French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We thought America was back, while in fact, America withdraws.””
They were all tickled to have another incompetent fool they could manipulate and exploit. Now they’ve learned what a weak and incompetent “leader” of the United States means to the world.
“Incredibly, Biden keeps insisting, as he did Friday, that “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.””
Actually, he probably hasn’t. There is no doubt he is not up to speed on anything but where to get ice cream.
The NYT and others could also acknowledge their dishonest promotion and support of this known and demonstrated failure, that they suppressed credible evidence he was corrupt and allowed him to issue whatever lie served his campaign without EVER calling him to accounts. They could accept their participation in making this disaster possible.
The negotiation was done in February of 2020. The pullout began shortly thereafter. It wasn’t secret; everyone knew about it. Your pathetic excuses for idiot Biden’s massive failure is based on, built around and clad in lies.
Trump inherited another issue that no one else had the guts to deal with. Obama was too worried withdrawal might affect his “legacy” (a legacy of corruption, lies and failure). Like the border, the economy and trade, Trump took it on as a challenge and succeeded where others failed or lacked the courage to address.
Idiot Biden, as we told you long ago, is nothing but a lying, corrupt, self-serving flop. A nothing. An empty vessel. You should try to learn to be more honest with yourself and admit how your unhealthy, unwarranted and unhinged hatred of Trump has led you to support a disaster… a disaster we all saw coming a hundred miles away.
It is hard to believe that even the general details of the plan were not made public.
For example, President Trump did not plan to surrender the AF base at Bagram.
Additionally, President Trump did not plan to evac military personnel in advance of American civilians.
And, finally, President Trump did not plan to hand over all of the military equipment assets present on the base.
woke pea brain greg would have us believe all of this was cast in stone. That biden had no choice or ability to reverse this screwed-up end game that was conceived and locked in by his predecessor…
Pft…
Trump had no control over some idiot coming along with the power bequeathed upon him through fraud and totally destroying his plan. This is all idiot Biden, 24/7, 100%, end of debate, settled science.
In fact, per Trump’s plan, there would be no Taliban in Kabul during the withdrawal for if there was, there would have been no withdrawal.
How does woke pea brain greg not understand that? Perhaps he did not read the plan…
He and others don’t want to know anything that might distract from their hate-based ideology.
greggie poo, just remember, in June, Biden scrapped all of Trumps plans and fired all of those who knew the details. Seems like your idol decided to do things his way and now we all see how great he is in foreign policy.
Covid was inherited from China, but you clowns won’t be honest and not blame Trump…even after he saved millions by NOT doing what your Dictator and his goons said we should do.
The historic failure of the fall of our efforts in Afghanistan is Joe Biden’s and Joe Biden’s alone.
As usual, Trump is blameless and it’s sad to see losers no taking responsibility for their own actions.
Biden failed, and it increasingly showing the few people who voted for him what kind of lunacy they have been drawn into.
Historically unpopular WH occupant, to boot.
The screwed-up end game was conceived and locked in by Donald Trump during his final days in office, and left on the Oval Office desk in the spot where he claims to have left The Plan
A bald faced lie.
Even if it were so, it would not take congressional action to amend the screwed up end game and locked in by President Trump. A commander in chief could make any changes necessary to adapt to conditions which may have or did change.
This constant propaganda that biden had his hands tied and was forced to act irresponsibly belies rational. woke greg continues to disingenuously proffer that biden could not as CIC alter any element of a previously planned military operation.
It would be as if obama would have planned to detonate a nuclear weapon two years after leaving office and his successor would have no option other than to effectuate the “locked” in screwed up end game.
woke greg has worn out his ill conceived effort to blame President Trump. The blame lies completely on biden and the entirety of the world leaders are blaming biden, not President Trump.
In point of fact:
Biden Effect: France, UK, Italy and Germany Turn to Putin and Russia for Assistance in Afghanistan
These three former allies have asked for help elsewhere. How much more destruction by biden can we tolerate?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ouch-lloyd-austin-thats-gonna-leave-a-mark/
Even an intelligent and capable person can look stupid and incompetent if they follow the orders of an idiot.
Apparently biden just announced at the G7 there would not be an extension on 31 august.
We are so fu€ked
There is now way at the present ratio of 150 Americans per 1000 evacuees that all Americans will be rescued.
Take a look at the people in line to board the planes. See anybody that looks American? Any black, brown or yellow Americans? Or does the Defense Dept not allow Americans of color to work federal jobs in Afghanistan?
No, we are extracting Afghanistanis, who are not being checked for Covid and who may even be Taliban, ISIS or AQ.
We are so fu€ked
Seems like the game has been changed…
Taliban Spokesman Barks New Orders at Biden Administration: NO AFGHANS will Be Allowed to Leave Country
They are going to kill everyone of them who gave any assistance to Americans
Well, if they wanted out they would have fought their way through the Taliban to get to the airport.
Dep, the Taliban has all the biometrics on those that assisted the U.S. Makes you wonder about those Afghanis that the Taliban is allowing to enter the Kabul airport, doesn’t it? Is Biden shipping terrorists to the U.S. compliments of the taxpayer?
Already some on no-fly lists and ISIS members have been found in the mass. Anyone that believes we found them all should go to Afghanistan and put that faith in their chances of being protected by this regime.
Biden Effect: The Taliban’s Badri 313 Unit in US Uniform and Armed with US Weapons Are “Guarding” Kabul Airport at Request of Biden Regime
