"No one disputes Woodward’s facts. He gets it right." - says Chris94. If so, Biden is derelict and a
full-blown liar.
'It turns out March of this year, Biden's top cabinet officers Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State and Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, proposed formally in all of these discussions to slow down the process,' Woodward continued.
'Austin, particularly says, 'gate the withdrawal. A few here, a few now, don't do it in one sweep,' and you now look back at that, and that probably was good advice that was not taken. But Biden was intent on ending the two decade-long war before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the attack that prompted its inception.
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Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse,' a reporter said to the president during a July 8 press conference.
Biden fired back by saying, 'That is not true.'
'They did not reach that conclusion,' the president insisted.
Link: Woodward slams Biden
Replies to: "No one disputes Woodward’s facts. He gets it right." - says Chris94. If so, Biden is derelict and a
I will be reading the book....and I'm guessing it won't say that anyone told Biden to expect....
...an immediate collapse. That is the point here.
I don't know what the intel was, regarding speed or inevitability of collapse. I don't know how unified the IC was.
Neither do you.
Hahahahahahaha.
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Most Americans accept that Woodward gets his facts straight.
I balee most would also believe his version over Joe. There is no Biden personality cult that believes it cause he says it.
Finally, I balee that a majority would agree that one of Joe’s major screw ups on Afghanistan was continuing with the derelict, hightail it out of there at any cost policy.
Sooooo, what’s yer point?
What's this "balee" shit? Are you trying to pass as a hip, high school girl? Grow up
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That's not the yarn Chris is spinning, who argues that the failed evacuation occurred
because no one anticipated the Afghan government folding like a cheap suit. There are numerous posts by Chris making this argument. He argues that the catastrophe was their making alone.
Not spin. Just facts.
And it's not that "no one" thought that - only that we don't know what the intel was about this...and that it was perfectly reasonable to expect the Afghan regime - and its 300K+ troops - to hang on more than a half hour.
After all, Najibullah's forces did. For years.
You can go look that up.
Yeah, but it wouldn’t have been a bad idea for the “pros” to have an idea what they were gonna do
if there was a complete collapse. Not like that was a completely off the wall possibility.
I don’t care what he’s arguing. His statement re Woodward is accurate.
It’s also accurate that Biden’s major failure was continuing the hightail it out at all cost policy.
Chris is proven liar, and distorter of facts
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Appropriate that Frank is trying to run intereference for him here, then.
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He is a TDS whacko, why bother?
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Woodward only counts when he is writing about Trump. Trump broke these guys and it's sad to see.
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