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===Afghan debacle===

===Afghan debacle===

[[File:Afghan dead (2).png|right|300px|thumb|The body of a young man crushed in the wheel well of a C-17, desperately trying to flee Afghanistan after Biden ordered a sudden ill-planned and chaotic withdrawal.<ref>https://citizenfreepress.com/column-1/horrifying-photo-of-afghan-trapped-on-outside-of-usaf-c-17-in-midair/</ref>]]

[[File:Afghan dead (2).png|right|300px|thumb|The body of a young man crushed in the wheel well of a C-17, desperately trying to flee Afghanistan after Biden ordered a sudden ill-planned and chaotic withdrawal.<ref>https://citizenfreepress.com/column-1/horrifying-photo-of-afghan-trapped-on-outside-of-usaf-c-17-in-midair/</ref>]]

On August 20, 2021 Biden claimed the U.S. went to Afghanistan to destroy al Qaeda, and had done so. Less than an hour later, a Pentagon spokesman contradicted him and said al Qaeda still existed in Afghanistan.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/biden-stumbles-with-afghan-questions-says-americans-can-reach-kabul/</ref>  His assurance that the Taliban promised people with U.S. passports were being cleared through Taliban checkpoints was immediately contradicted by the State Department.  When asked by [[ABC News]]' [[George Stephanopoulos]]: “Your military advisers did not tell you, ‘we should just keep 2,500 troops. It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?" Biden insisted, “No. No one said that to me that I can recall.”<ref>https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1442877015183421447</ref>  Under oath [[CENTCOM]] commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified,

On August 20, 2021 Biden claimed the U.S. went to Afghanistan to destroy al Qaeda, and had done so. Less than an hour later, a Pentagon spokesman contradicted him and said al Qaeda still existed in Afghanistan.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/biden-stumbles-with-afghan-questions-says-americans-can-reach-kabul/</ref>  His assurance that the [[Taliban]] promised people with U.S. passports were being cleared through Taliban checkpoints was immediately contradicted by the State Department.  When asked by [[ABC News]]' [[George Stephanopoulos]]: “Your military advisers did not tell you, ‘we should just keep 2,500 troops. It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?" Biden insisted, “No. No one said that to me that I can recall.”<ref>https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1442877015183421447</ref>  Under oath [[CENTCOM]] commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified,

{{quotebox-float|"I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time. Those were my personal views.  I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”<ref>https://therightscoop.com/watch-general-milley-mckenzie-contradict-biden-said-they-told-him-not-to-completely-withdraw-from-afghanistan/</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time. Those were my personal views.  I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”<ref>https://therightscoop.com/watch-general-milley-mckenzie-contradict-biden-said-they-told-him-not-to-completely-withdraw-from-afghanistan/</ref>}}