Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is running for president, it's worth remembering that she took charge of the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle three years ago.
Speaking to CNN that April, a few months before the withdrawal's disastrous conclusion, he admitted to being the last person in the room when President Joe Biden decided to go ahead with the withdrawal.
“Were you the last person in the room?” CNN anchor Dana Bash asked him.
“Yes,” replied the vice president.
“And you feel comfortable [with that]?” bash pressed
“I do,” Harris replied.
Listen:
FLASHBACK
In April 2021, Kamala Harris boasted that she was the last person in the room when Joe Biden made the catastrophic decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, which she supported.
QUESTION: “Are you comfortable?”
HARRIS: “I do.” pic.twitter.com/Ob5WF9hdzF
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 24, 2024
To be fair, former President Donald Trump was the one who initiated the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Before he could complete it, however, the American people voted Biden and Harris into office.
The problem was that, unlike the Trump team, the Biden/Harris team was incompetent and many felt they had no idea what they were doing. As a result, they ended up pulling out of Afghanistan badly, badly, badly.
But as you can see in the video above, Harris grabbed it with gusto (months in advance, mind you), and that, critics say, is saying a lot (*Language notice):
I will say it 1000x. Trump needs to own up to the fact that as Vice President, Harris owns every bit of Biden's shit.
— Frank Gangemi (@FrankGangemi) July 26, 2024
Kamala and all the disasters of this administration are joined at the hip. As much as the Dems and the MSM try to dazzle us, they are the same thing.
— Robert White (@lagatorvii) July 26, 2024
@mommamia1217
So he approved the disaster in Afghanistan where 13 of our soldiers were killed. Then the man he fully supports claims it never happened; in a debate, no more and no less.— Endless Hope #StandWithTexas #neveragain (@newdaycomin1) July 24, 2024
They are a complete failure pic.twitter.com/6pLUcAoS2e
— Elon Musk Citizen Journalist (Parody) (@xcitizenjournal) July 24, 2024
The withdrawal was such a disaster that some American citizens were forced to travel to Afghanistan to help save the lives of their fellow citizens.
Take retired mixed martial artist, US Army sniper and Green Beret Tim Kennedy, who took a flight to Afghanistan immediately after the withdrawal to help evacuate both trapped Americans and Afghan allies who had helped US forces during the war in Afghanistan.
“We had a very clear mission about who we were trying to identify and get out, and American citizens were number one,” he told Fox News in an interview at the time. “It was a landscape and a battlefield that I had never experienced before and it was absolute chaos.”
Especially when bombs went off at Kabul airport.
“I was in a full C-17 loading Afghans when the bomb went off. You can't stop. You're in a plane with 500 people's lives right there. The crew was amazing and we were just focused [completing the mission],” he said.
An intensely difficult mission.
'Absolute chaos': Army green beret details 'horrors' of evacuation efforts in Kabul https://t.co/xLNRjvG5cT pic.twitter.com/MZCdCYMjc2
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 29, 2021
“The horrors of people arriving at the airport are indescribable,” he said, noting how “dangerous it is to get them through the gates when there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to get through.”
He added that he saw things “you wouldn't want to happen in your worst nightmare”, including lightning strikes, “balls”, “people being beaten and trampled to death” and, horrifyingly, “babies hanging by a thread of concertina”. “
He also criticized President Biden, and therefore Vice President Harris by proxy, for his inexplicable decision to rely on the Taliban to secure the Kabul airport.
“The Taliban wanted everyone coming into Kabul airport to go through the south gate entrance where they had a checkpoint and they could check everyone coming in and if it was one of their highly valued targets, they won't let it. they'll just kill you,” he said.
To this day, no one has been held responsible for the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Many wonder if anyone will ever…
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