They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do.

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They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do.

Author: Chris94 (35729 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 1:47 pm on Aug 15, 2021

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But the scale of the failure of the Afghan gvmt and army is breathtaking.

They spent twenty years pocketing our money and not paying their troops. Now innocent people are going to pay the price for their corruption and venality.

Replies to: "They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do."

An orderly evacuation with honor. [LINK] - Curly1918 - 7:52am 8/15/21 (33) [View All]
- Pray for the Afghanis who will be raped, beheaded and slaughtered. [NT] - Aragoto - 9:14am 8/15/21
  - They never told Joe there would be times like this when he signed up [NT] - ColeyO - 9:17am 8/15/21
- Only weeks ago, Biden dismissed the prospect of the Taliban taking back control of the country as .. - CC72 - 8:57am 8/15/21
  - And he will be rightly criticized for those statements. - Frank L - 11:38am 8/15/21
  - I don’t think anybody expected this collapse - Chris94 - 9:38am 8/15/21
    - Then just say and own that. Blinken and the prez are looking like weasels on this. - Frank L - 1:39pm 8/15/21
      - They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do. - Chris94 - 1:47pm 8/15/21
    - Everyone except Biden and his Intel people expected it [NT] - CC72 - 10:32am 8/15/21
      - Oh sure. Everyone did. [NT] - Chris94 - 10:57am 8/15/21
        Yes, everyone except those of you with your heads up your asses. [NT] - CC72 - 11:01am 8/15/21
        I did pick the under... - TakethetrainKnute - 11:29am 8/15/21
        So did I. I said by thanksgiving. [NT] - Frank L - 11:39am 8/15/21
        I did not know that it would fall this fast...but the WH should have better info than I and should - TakethetrainKnute - 11:58am 8/15/21
        That’s easy to say and he does own that failure. - Frank L - 12:07pm 8/15/21
    - We trained them to fight like us, with our military intelligence and our air support. - Curly1918 - 10:31am 8/15/21
    - Nuking Kabul & Tora Bora was always the best option [NT] - MarkHarman - 9:49am 8/15/21
  - Weeks? More like week. That was August 8. [NT] - Iggle - 9:00am 8/15/21
    - Blame it on whoever authors his humongous teleprompter script. [LINK] - Curly1918 - 9:12am 8/15/21
    - Baker: Joe has been wrong on every foreign relations - ColeyO - 9:09am 8/15/21
- Et tu, CNN? [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 8:01am 8/15/21
  - Own your vote. Think the press will ask him a hard question? Think he will speak gibberish? [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:59am 8/15/21
    - The potential genocide seems to excite our president. - Aragoto - 9:19am 8/15/21
  - Means it’s botched so badly they can’t cover for him… [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 8:14am 8/15/21
    - Nonsense. Time to don the bomber jacket, chains and aviator sunglasses. - Aragoto - 9:23am 8/15/21
  - A complete failure of leadership. - Iggle - 8:08am 8/15/21
    - At least Biden threw away our energy independence to the Arab countries before all of this. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 9:00am 8/15/21
    - It is President Biden’s clusterfuck. He will have to own it. [NT] [LINK] - conorlarkin - 8:57am 8/15/21
      - He’s not owning it. No one ever has or will. I said it would happen by thanksgiving. - Frank L - 10:52am 8/15/21
        Biden is responsible for the execution of the withdrawal. - conorlarkin - 11:55am 8/15/21
        That is obvious and he should acknowledge it and take his lumps. - Frank L - 12:17pm 8/15/21
      - World wide unraveling FP, resurgence of defeated Al Queda on way,& gave away our energy independence - BaronVonZemo - 9:12am 8/15/21
        But there's always Barry O to remember. He was the greatest [NT] - ColeyO - 9:19am 8/15/21
        Obama reprised LBJ's Viet Nam surge in Afghanistan [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 10:34am 8/15/21