6 lies of Joe Biden
OW can any American believe anything President Biden says after he’s lied so blatantly about the Afghanistan evacuation?
“Let me be clear, any American who wants to come home, we will get you home,” Biden said on Aug. 20.
TRUTH: Even Biden admits Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan after he withdrew the last US forces before getting them home. US Central Command head Gen. Frank McKenzie said some Americans trying to escape couldn’t get to the Kabul airport — and the last five jets left without a single American on board.
“We’re making the same commitment,” Biden said on Aug. 20, to Afghans who assisted America in the war effort, “those Afghans who have worked alongside us, served alongside of us, gone into combat with us and provided invaluable assistance to us.” TRUTH: On Wednesday, a senior State Department official confessed to NBC News that “the majority of Afghans who helped” the United States “didn’t make it out of Kabul.” The official didn’t have the number of Special Immigrant Visa applicants who remain in Afghanistan but said “it’s the majority of them.”
“The United States stands by its commitment that we’ve made to these people, and it includes other vulnerable Afghans, such as women leaders and journalists,” Biden said on Aug. 20. TRUTH: Team Biden didn’t even ensure American-employed journalists made it to safety. Some 500 US Agency for Global Media journalists, working for outlets such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and their family members were left to the mercy of the Taliban, who have already begun bullying Afghan reporters. Just 50 US-sponsored journalists made it out — thanks to other governments, not our own.
Asked by a reporter on July 8, “Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam,” Biden was indignant: “None whatsoever. Zero.”
TRUTH: Not even a month after Biden spoke those words, nearly 200 Americans fled the Baron Hotel in military helicopters when they couldn’t reach the Kabul airport — just 650 feet away — any other way.
Biden vowed to continue providing the Afghan army with air support. “I’ll insist we continue to keep the commitments we
made of providing close air support, making sure that their air force functions and is operable,” he said on Aug. 10. He’d made the promise to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a July 23 phone call that was leaked Wednesday. “We will continue to provide close air support.”
TRUTH: The Wall Street Journal reported on Aug. 14, “In the wake of President Biden’s withdrawal decision, the US pulled its air support, intelligence and contractors servicing Afghanistan’s planes and helicopters. That meant the Afghan military simply couldn’t operate anymore.” That makes false Biden’s repeated claim that the Afghan army folded simply because it didn’t want to fight.
“Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse,” a reporter told the president on July 8, to which a defensive Biden responded, “That is not true.” He added that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
TRUTH: In fact, Biden knew the Taliban were overtaking the Afghan government — and asked Ghani to lie about it. The perception “is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.” Ghani gave him the facts: “We are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists.” Biden ignored them.
The Taliban are now brazenly showing off the US military equipment — including Black Hawk helicopters, dozens of armored vehicles and weapons — abandoned by US troops amid President
Biden’s chaotic final exit from Afghanistan.
Islamist fighters staged victory parades
Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-biggest city, as they showed off the US military hardware they’ve seized.
Videos showed heavily armed Taliban fighters standing on top of a long line of captured Humvees and other tactical vehicles as they drive along a highway.
In embarrassing scenes for the US, a Black Hawk helicopter even flies overhead.
Many Taliban militants also could be seen cradling American M16 rifles and other weapons used by US, NATO and Afghan forces during the 20-year war.
The value of the weapons and equipment abandoned by the US was not immediately known, but it is likely to be in the tens of millions of dollars and potentially arms an enemy combatant. It also isn’t clear how much military inventory the Taliban have in their possession. The Afghan air force was operating 167 aircraft, including helicopters and planes, at the end of June, according to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a US government watchdog.
Prior to Kabul falling, Uzbekistan revealed that Afghan soldiers had fled to the neighboring country with 22 military planes and 24 helicopters. It is not known how many other Afghan planes or helicopters, if any, were flown out amid the chaotic evacuations — but it leaves 121 aircraft potentially in the hands of Taliban fighters.
Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of US Central Command, on Monday rattled off a list of equip
ment the US left at Kabul’s airport when the final troops flew out.
It included a C-RAM rocket defense system, about 70 vehicles designed to protect against blasts and at least 27 Humvees.
The US insists the military equipment it abandoned was deactivated prior to fleeing Kabul.
But the Taliban also have seized the hardware Afghan security forces were using — which was funded by the US during the decades-long war.
Biden remained defiant Tuesday during an address to the nation. “This is the right decision, a wise decision and the best decision for America,” he said.