Get it straight

Ioften wonder where the frequent conservative writers get their facts when they put pen to paper when submitting letters to the Antelope Valley Press. Do they only get their facts from Facebook or other social media outlets or do they rely on Fox’s Tucker Carlson?

One recent letter writer wrote that “Biden handed the Taliban an entire country complete with state of the art military weaponry costing taxpayers $80 billion (not $6b previous letter). No doubt weapons will be used against us or auctioned to our enemies.”

This same person also wrote; “On the tarmac as 13 caskets arrived, Biden constantly checked his watch after every casket was unloaded. Did he have more important things to do?”

It was this person’s beloved former President Donald Trump who said in a statement on August 30th that “All equipment should be demanded to be immediately returned to the United States, and that includes every penny of the $85 billion dollars in cost.”

There the former president goes again talking out of his butt. According to Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for all spending appropriated for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund since the US invasion in 2001 cost $82.9 billion. The $83 billion spent on the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) goes back two decades, including almost $19 billion spent between 2002 and 2009.

As for the statement regarding Biden looking at his watch “after every casket was unloaded.” It’s false. If this person had taken the time to review the 40+ minute video that can be seen online, they would have seen President Biden only glancing at his watch only one time.

This was one time was after “ALL” of the caskets had been put into the vans and only after the vans had left the flight-line.

George Jung Antelope Acres