Not only did the Biden Administration cover up the fact that the bombing could have been stopped, records of U.S. military equipment given to Afghans has been removed from federal websites. Why? Online links to reports published by multiple agencies are now gone? Requested by Biden’s Admin.
Politico reported this week that the Biden Administration knew about a potential “mass casualty” attack 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, yet did nothing. 13 Marines died in the attack:
Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a “complex attack,” the notes quoted him as saying.
Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was “highest risk,” and detailed their plans to protect the airport.
“I don’t believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,” Austin said, according to the classified notes.
On a separate call at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. But the Americans decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted in order to allow their British allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to continue evacuating their personnel, based at the nearby Baron Hotel.
CHARLES P MCWILLIAMS says
Biden didn’t get us into the 20 year fiasco of a war, or conflict like Vietnam, it was GWB’s springboarding us into the mess under the guise of the worst terror attacked on US. soil; a highly questionable lead up to 9/11, fully unanswered to this day. An act of treason not dissimilar to the last occupant cozying up to Putin and our foreign affairs in the toilet.
It was high time we reversed course out of Afghanistan. There to fulfill bankrolling Cheney’s Halliburton interests, we should have left long ago and did not!
Let’s not let apathy and the short attention spans of certain constituents, the dwindling ranks of anti-vaskers, lead us too far off point.
We endured four years under what historians have stated, was the absolute worst president in our nation’s history.
How about giving Biden a chance?
Note: Give it a rest. What do Trump and a vaccine that doesn’t work have to do with anything? Pure deflection. If you voted for Biden, blood is on your hands, lots of it. This was one of the worst military operations in history (I can go on and on about this). So stupid, so corrupt, and anyone that carries water for these people really needs to reflect on just what they really stand for. Leaving Afghanistan was dumber than going in, and that says a lot. Disgusting on every level. No honor.
Stuart Bell says
You have the audacity to come on here and defend China Joe? You are a Damned Fool.
You are part of the problem.
@%^*!*& says
All the people who voted for Sleepy Joe and KamelToe or helped to steal the election are enimies of this nation…you all have blood on your hands and feet that no soap will remove. We got your number.
Paul Plante says
Charles, you are an absolute hoot, the real deal, not a fabrication, and that is an honest-to-gosh fact that can’t be disputed, because it is true.
Tell me, did you fail history?
Or didn’t you bother to take it, finding it too boring, and besides it’s about tomarrow anyway, who needs to read history of other people when it is us who are writing the history everybody else will be reading next week?
If you had studied history back in grade school and high school, you would be much more aware of Joe Biden’s involvement in the Afghanistnam fiasco back when he was a Democrat senator, which takes us to some history from The Intercept entitled “1979-1989 RESPONSE TO THE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN” by Jeremy Scahill on April 27 2021, where we have goofy old Joe Biden on center stage, to wit:
AFTER THE SOVIET UNION began its 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Joe Biden supported some of President Jimmy Carter’s responses, including an embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union.
“This should be an indefinite program, and we go back to the Cold War as long as the Soviets remain in Afghanistan,” Biden said in January 1980.
There was widespread consensus that the embargo hurt U.S. farmers more than the USSR, and it became a weakness for Carter in the 1980 election, when his opponent Ronald Reagan pledged to reverse the policy.
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Now, the one true thing that can be said about Joe Biden is that when it comes to bad judgment and making bad decisions that wind up hurting Americans, Joe is very consistent.
The dude has exhibited bad judgment going back at least to his law school days and his plagiarism.
Consider the FactCheck.org article “Biden’s Record on Iraq War” by Robert Farley posted on September 10, 2019, as follows:
Twice in the last five weeks, Joe Biden has claimed that despite voting to authorize military force against Iraq in 2002, he opposed the Iraq war from “the moment” it began.
That’s not accurate, and Biden now says he misspoke.
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Don’t you just love the dude, Charles, for the prevaricating fool that he really is?
Do you feel safe with Joe Biden in the oval office?
Does Joe make you feel good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside?
Anyway, getting back to The Intercept:
After winning, Reagan ended the embargo in 1981 and was determined to move from Carter’s use of food as a weapon to more robust support for the Afghan mujahideen.
Biden voted in favor of a request by the Reagan administration to increase aid to Pakistan by waiving prohibitions on financing nations that had active nuclear weapons programs.
Aid to Pakistan had been cut off in 1979 due to the country’s imports of equipment for uranium enrichment.
The Biden-backed waiver would have sweeping ramifications since it facilitated the CIA’s assistance to Pakistan’s intelligence service, which was coordinating the battle against Soviet occupation using forces Reagan proudly called “Afghan freedom fighters” — better known as the mujahideen.
The bill Biden supported authorized Reagan to provide more than $3 billion in military and other assistance to Pakistan from 1981 to 1987 “if he determines that to do so is in the national interest of the United States.”
The funding, the bill stated, was necessary “in order to assist Pakistan in dealing with the threat to its security posed by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan.”
In 1982, Reagan proclaimed March 21 to be Afghanistan Day.
“To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom,” Reagan declared in 1983.
“Their courage teaches us a great lesson — that there are things in this world worth defending.”
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Do you remember any of that happening, Charles?
Or was it before you were born?
Getting back to that story of our Joe, the first of his name and the only Joe we have to love, obey and cherish, we have:
Biden later supported the 1985 Pressler Amendment, which required the president to certify on an annual basis that “Pakistan does not possess a nuclear explosive device and that the proposed United States assistance program will reduce significantly the risk that Pakistan will possess a nuclear explosive device.”
The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh later reported: “The certification process became farcical in the last years of the Reagan Administration, whose yearly certification — despite explicit American intelligence about Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program — was seen as little more than a payoff to the Pakistani leadership for its support in Afghanistan.”
Hersh added that “the political leadership of the United States, flagrantly violating the law, had permitted Pakistan to buy restricted items inside the United States for its nuclear arsenal” and charged that “senior officials of the Reagan and the Bush Administrations chose not to share the intelligence about nuclear purchases with Congress.”
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush was unable to certify that Pakistan did not possess a nuclear explosive device.
In 2008, in recognition of his “consistent support for Pakistan,” Biden was awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan award by then-Pakistani President Asif Zardari, the country’s highest state honor.
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Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to bake us all a great big chocolate cake, and Charles, I bet the first piece he serves will be for you for being so loyal to Joe as opposed to loyal to the facts and truth.
Paul Plante says
And since we are on the history of Joe Biden as a fool with real bad judgment who nonetheless was awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan award by then-Pakistani President Asif Zardari, the country’s highest state honor, in 2008, that Asif Zardari himself is quite the dude, if you have ever bothered to stay up with current events as they were happening.
For those who are too young to remember back to 2008, Asif Ali Zardari, born 26 July 1955, was a Pakistani politician who as the 11th president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
The son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a landowner from Sindh, Zardari rose to prominence after his marriage to Benazir Bhutto in 1987, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan after her election in 1988.
When Bhutto’s government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990, Zardari was widely criticized for involvement in corruption scandals that led to its collapse.
That’s why he and Joe Biden got along so well, it is said – the corruption!
Following increasing tensions between Bhutto’s brother Murtaza and Zardari, Murtaza was killed by police in Karachi on 20 September 1996.
Bhutto’s government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari, while Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza’s murder as well as corruption charges.
Aren’t you just loving this Charles P. McWilliams as we give Joe Biden yet another chance in here to prove that his judgment today is as unsound and flawed as it ever was.
Getting back to Joe’s good buddy, Zardari, who the last time we saw him had been arrested and indicted for Murtaza’s murder as well as corruption charges, his story, which is in some large part Joe’s story as well, given how tight the two were, like two peas in a pod or twin sons of different mothers, he was released from jail in 2004 and went into self-exile to Dubai, but returned when Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007.
As president, Zardari remained a strong American ally in the war in Afghanistan, despite prevalent public disapproval of the United States following the Raymond Davis incident and the Nato attack in Salala in 2011.
As to the famous Raymond Davis incident, which occurred while our Joe was Hussein Obama’s vice president, Raymond Allen Davis is a former United States Army soldier, private security firm employee, and contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
On January 27, 2011, Davis shot and killed two armed men in Lahore, Pakistan, and immediately after the shooting, a car coming to aid Davis killed a third Pakistani man, Ibadur Rahman, in a hit and run while speeding on the wrong side of the road.
In the aftermath of the incident, the U.S. government, i.e., Hussein Obama and Joe Biden, contended that Davis was protected by diplomatic immunity because of his employment with the American consulate in Lahore.
However, he was jailed and criminally charged by Pakistani authorities with two counts of murder and the illegal possession of a firearm.
On March 16, 2011, Davis was released after the families of the two killed men were paid US$2.4 million in diyya (a form of blood money compensation in Islamic law).
Judges then acquitted him on all charges, and Davis immediately left Pakistan.
The incident led to a diplomatic furor and deterioration in Pakistan–United States relations.
A major focus of the incident was the U.S. government’s assertion that Davis was protected under the principle of diplomatic immunity due to his role as an “administrative and technical official” attached to the American consulate in Lahore.
The United States claimed that Davis was protected under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and demanded he be released from custody immediately.
Barack Obama, then-President of the United States, asked Pakistan not to prosecute Davis and recognize him as a diplomat, stating, “There’s a broader principle at stake that I think we have to uphold.”
Pakistani officials disputed the claim of immunity from a murder charge, asserting that Davis was involved in clandestine operations, and questioned the scope of his activities in Pakistan.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry stated that “this matter is sub judice [“under adjudication”] in a court of law and the legal process should be respected.”
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stated that, according to official records and experts in the Foreign Office, Davis was “not a diplomat and cannot be given blanket diplomatic immunity”; Qureshi’s stand on the issue allegedly led to him losing the Foreign Affairs ministerial post.
Did Joe Biden have anything to do with that dude losing the Foreign Affairs ministerial post after he took a position contrary to what Hussein Obama wanted?
Would Joe Biden ever tell us if he did?
Doesn’t it remind one of Joe and Ukraine?
Anyway, Zardari’s tenure was also criticised for mishandling nationwide floods in 2010, and growing terrorist violence.
Towards the end of his term, Zardari recorded abysmally low approval ratings, ranging from 11 to 14%.
His legacy remains divisive, with political observers accusing his administration of corruption and cronyism.
Paul Plante says
As to historians calling Trump the absolute worst president in our nation’s history, that was before Joe Biden took the office and bumped Trump out of the top slot for that honor.
Bob says
And so was Nixon at that time
Now look at wha is said about him
Todd Holden says
Here’s who I blame:
1. Biden.
2. ALL Democrats (those in government, the people “thinking” with emotions instead of brains)
3. Republicans that didn’t want to risk their Twitter rights to fight against a rigged election.
4. John Roberts
5. The rest of the Supreme Court.
YOU did this
Paul Plante says
What I usually hear people saying about Nixon is that he was a crook and so was his vice president and his attorney general.
What are you hearing about him?
Anything different?