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2021-09-01 Afghanistan
As Biden repeats claim that ‘nobody could have known’ Afghan Army would collapse, bombshell transcript from July reveals he pressured Afghan President Ghani to create 'perception' Taliban wasn't winning ‘WHETHER IT'S TRUE OR NOT’
Stray gamma rays deleted Hupeth Henbane6225‘s article, but Skidmark’s Daily Mail link in comments has the gist of it that I’m pasting in here as a placeholder until we can reconstitute the original — if that can be done by someone with more skillz than mine.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 11:17 a.m. ET.
  • Reuters on Tuesday released excerpts from last call between Biden and Ashraf Ghani before the Afghan president fled

  • They talked for about 14 minutes on July 23 as the Taliban advanced rapidly

  • Biden told his counterpart of a perception that the fight against the Taliban was not going well

  • 'There is a need, whether it is true or not ... to project a different picture,' he said

  • Comments are indication Biden knew it was matter of time before Taliban won

  • In months leading up to withdrawal, Biden predicted pullout would go smoothly

  • Neither appeared to realize just how badly things would go

  • Less than four weeks later the Taliban had captured Kabul
Posted by Hupeth Henbane6225 2021-09-01 10:31|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 "And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture."

Key words and phrases: U.S. Intel and.... PROJECTION.

I blame Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.


Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-01 03:34||   2021-09-01 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Praetorians are not happy with Biden? Must be their Opium business.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-01 06:21||   2021-09-01 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Some of the senior Biden administration people have Hildebeest backgrounds. The Praetorians appear to have a control problem.

Imagine that.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-01 06:54||   2021-09-01 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Lots of people loved this stuff when it was happening to Trump. How do they like it now?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-01 07:04||   2021-09-01 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Don’t they impeach Presidents for trying to coerce foreign leaders in phone calls?

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 07:33||   2021-09-01 07:33|| Front Page Top

#6 As Biden repeats claim that ‘nobody could have known’ Afghan Army would collapse, bombshell transcript from July reveals he pressured Afghan President Ghani to create 'perception' Taliban wasn't winning ‘WHETHER IT'S TRUE OR NOT’
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 07:51||   2021-09-01 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Key to all the struggle may be how the CackleJackal is seen and reacts as she emerges from the shadows. If the struggle is between the Clintonista veterans and the puppets of the Obama/ValJar Presidium at the Kalorma Kompound, there might be visible hints of how the VP aligns. Or she may look for more mutual political fratricide before she acts, to render her opposition inside the DNC weaker? Politics on the left is an internal blood-sport of late.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-09-01 12:50||   2021-09-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Stupid basterds think the public wouid not realize that the Afghan army would not lose confidence once withdrawl was announced.
Posted by crazyhorse 2021-09-01 13:22||   2021-09-01 13:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Who would have known there'd be a wind advisory?

Everybody. Everybody knew.

/Deadpool 2
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-01 13:44||   2021-09-01 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 that transcript also has a Biden promise of air support

turned out that was another broken promise
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-09-01 14:21||   2021-09-01 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ They had the same exact problem with Bay of Pigs.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-01 14:35||   2021-09-01 14:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Report on Citizen's Free Press that the Kabul suicide bomber was targeted and locked on by a Predator Drone, that they knew he was going to attack the airport, likely Abbey gate target, and Biden ASKED THE TALIBAN FOR PERMISSION TO SHOOT, THEY REFUSED, AND THE BOMBER THEN KILLED THE 13 US SERVICE PERSONNEL! Just read it, so no corroboration but the source cited is a former DoD asst secretary.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-09-01 16:01||   2021-09-01 16:01|| Front Page Top

#13 https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-impeachment-bombshell-u-s-predator-drone-had-kill-shot-on-terrorist-before-he-killed-13-marines-biden-bowed-to-taliban-who-denied-permission-to-shoot/
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-09-01 16:01||   2021-09-01 16:01|| Front Page Top

#14 If Cuomo fell, so can others.
Posted by Bobby 2021-09-01 19:01||   2021-09-01 19:01|| Front Page Top

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