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2021-08-26 Afghanistan
Breaking: Four Marines dead in Kabul airport bombing
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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-26 13:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 ...Two confirmed explosions, a third reported. Casualties now 10 KIA, 'many' wounded.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-26 14:45||   2021-08-26 14:45|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Clarification - ten US KIA, civilian casualties are many times that.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-26 14:47||   2021-08-26 14:47|| Front Page Top

#3 13 US soldiers KIA, plus 10 critical
Posted by si vis pacem 2021-08-26 14:52||   2021-08-26 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 B-52 the bastards. Kill every last one of them. Be done with it and give rhem something to remember.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 14:55||   2021-08-26 14:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Everybody knew this shi@ was going to go down badly. Saturation bomb everything but the airport to a depth of 5 miles in all directions. Rubblize the entire city. Start immediately.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 15:03||   2021-08-26 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 After 911 Bush should have nuked Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by 3dc 2021-08-26 15:05||   2021-08-26 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 You guys are finally warming up!
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 15:07||   2021-08-26 15:07|| Front Page Top

#8 President Biden on 8/20/21: "Look, we've made clear to the Taliban that any attack -- any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with a swift and forceful response."
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 15:10||   2021-08-26 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 It begins. #5 I think it has only just started to go badly and while I entirely endorse and sympathize with your sentiments they are about 18-19 years late.
Posted by Cesare 2021-08-26 15:11||   2021-08-26 15:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Bomb safe passage routes to the airport. Several of them. Tell everybody (US Persons and Euros) to make their way to the airport via leather cadillacs immediately. Fok everybody else, just fok their sorry arses. Patrol the routes with drones to monitor progress.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 15:17||   2021-08-26 15:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, don't make them string out on a 25 mile walk to an evac point outside the city. Get them all bunched up in urban terrain. Brilliant. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-26 15:22||   2021-08-26 15:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Agree with #9. Yes late, but it's time to act today. Send them all to hell. Invite others VIC Spin, Kandahar, Bagram, and Moz to join them. Clean foking sweep. Just do it and be done with it.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 15:22||   2021-08-26 15:22|| Front Page Top

#13 There's a Pentagon briefing going on here, but other than that the regime has gone full radio silent as far as I can tell. No Blinken, no Psaki, and of course no big guy. Der Fuhrer schlaft.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 15:31||   2021-08-26 15:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Tell the CIA abd DOS people they have a new mission relative to the Taliban, Graves Registration. Give them shovels and get their arses to digging. Give those worthless foks something to remember as well.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 15:36||   2021-08-26 15:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh. Pentagon briefing. Getting our vax schedule figured out? Drag Queen Dance Off Finals? Perhaps, dare I say, Pronoun Hierarchy?
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 15:37||   2021-08-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Third explosion rocks Kabul
At least 11 US Marines, Navy Medic dead; Death toll exceeds 70
Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-26 15:38||   2021-08-26 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 And by the way, where the heck is the Marine leadership? Commandant Berger, you just lost half a platoon. Your guys. Got anything to say?
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 15:39||   2021-08-26 15:39|| Front Page Top

#18 Der Fuhrer schlaft. If only der Fuhrer knew. If only der Fuhrer was capable of knowing.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-08-26 15:42||   2021-08-26 15:42|| Front Page Top

#19 They need help. Send me a set of orders. I have 175,000 Delta Sky miles. One more deployment, no problem. I'm old, but not dead. I can call in air, drones or manned surveillance, or FO work. Be happy to support soldiers, Marines, USAF, watever. Make my foking day.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 15:53||   2021-08-26 15:53|| Front Page Top

#20 No worries, Bidet is going to fumble through reading another teleprompter speech at 5om eastern. Decisive leadership at last!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-26 16:02||   2021-08-26 16:02|| Front Page Top

#21 So for the last couple days the CIA et al has been handing over cash for safe passage, and they have deceived and been planning this obviously coordinated battering ram. Meanwhile, US forces had strict orders to not leave the airport so they were not able to set up even rudimentary anti-vehicle stops.

So now they can't wake der fukr and if they did, he wouldn't be in mind for a serious top down decision.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 16:09||   2021-08-26 16:09|| Front Page Top

#22 "Since I spoke to you on Monday, we have made significant progress. We've secured the airport, enabling flights to resume, not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries, and the NGOs taking out civilians and vulnerable Afghanis," said Biden in his televised speech set for 1 pm that ran behind schedule. 8/10/2021

“You graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. Don’t ever use the word smart with me,” Trump said during the first presidential debate. “Don’t ever use that word. Because you know what? There’s nothing smart about you, Joe."
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 16:10||   2021-08-26 16:10|| Front Page Top

#23 But the media is ready to run another picture of Joe snarfing an ice cream cone. "America's back, man!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 16:11||   2021-08-26 16:11|| Front Page Top

#24  No worries, Bidet is going to fumble through reading another teleprompter speech at 5om eastern.

Why wake him? What's the difference between him reading a teleprompter and having Psaki read it for him?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-26 16:16||   2021-08-26 16:16|| Front Page Top

#25 More major attacks expected.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 16:25||   2021-08-26 16:25|| Front Page Top

#26 Forgive my ranting. I am ver angry.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 16:26||   2021-08-26 16:26|| Front Page Top

#27 Pretty fucking mad too.

All I can picture is a committee knowing they are getting buttfucked on international TV, watching an aerial asset live, in a zoom meeting, unable to make a decision because nobody want to chance being the patsy, while The White House tries to wake der fukr and get him into makeup prep.

All while better people than them are dying.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 16:34||   2021-08-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#28 BREAKING: Biden Admin Gave Taliban List Of ‘American Citizens, Green Card Holders And Afghan Allies’ That Needed To Get Into Airport: Report
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 16:38||   2021-08-26 16:38|| Front Page Top

#29 The briefing at 5PM (or whenever the meds kick in) is probably when Biden's going to announce the "swift and forceful response" he promised on August 20. /sarc
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 16:54||   2021-08-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

#30 besoeker you have plenty of reason to rant
Posted by Chris 2021-08-26 16:58||   2021-08-26 16:58|| Front Page Top

#31 While a few hard core dead-end commentators will continue to reel off knee-slappers about how this is "Trump's fault," the vast majority of people understand Joe and the people who actually voted for him own it. I don't know if a fake ballot can get what it was cast for "good and hard."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:00||   2021-08-26 17:00|| Front Page Top

#32 Biden will do nothing
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-08-26 17:03||   2021-08-26 17:03|| Front Page Top

#33 No apologies, Besoeker, any American is furious and why not. This isn't incompetence this is malice, straight up. Abandon the strategic air base on 4 July...tut, tut just bureaucratic oversight, after all it's just a date. With the ultimate hand off on the 20th of 9/11? Dates may not mean much in the fevered gay bar scene of DC, but they do to the enemy.

I'll say it again, this is malice. Just like the 47 genders that you BETTER respect. The ruination of any and all standards until even if you would strive and aspire it's beyond unclear as to what.

This is malice. Making fear a public virtue and othering a major part of the population unto the most ludicrous, vitriolic hatred.

The c0chsucker Biden has been a blowhard and corrupt hack his entire career in public life. But this is malice from him, and the people that installed him and the money behind them

This is malice from people that hate you so much they want you dead but want your taxes more so they imagine they control and immisserate you. This is malice.
Posted by Cesare 2021-08-26 17:05||   2021-08-26 17:05|| Front Page Top

#34 This is what *fraud* buys. This is what the fraudulent and their silent-go-alongers purchased. This is what the nice ladies in the church pews that fretted about "mean tweets" bought with their votes. This is what the "sensitive" men who were too weak-kneed to be a real man bragged to their co-workers that they supported (in a desperate effort to gain the admiration of others). This is what the socialites paid for, all because "that Trump guy has no manners". I spit on all of them.
Posted by Crusader 2021-08-26 17:09||   2021-08-26 17:09|| Front Page Top

#35 ^ Yes, and never let them forget it. Slam them so hard over it that most of them never even think about voting again. If you know any Gold Star parents, ask your neighbor who bragged about voting for Bidet if he has been over to apologize to them yet. For starters.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:19||   2021-08-26 17:19|| Front Page Top

#36 Ref #28: BREAKING: Biden Admin Gave Taliban List Of ‘American Citizens, Green Card Holders And Afghan Allies’ That Needed To Get Into Airport:

But, but, but the gov't acknowledges there are sill American CITS there? Gives the TB a list of names and addresses? WTF bloody fok ?

Why not give the names and addresses to JSOC and let THEM go get'em ?


Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-26 17:19||   2021-08-26 17:19|| Front Page Top

#37 I think they kicked your Sept 1 is, like 4 or 5 days early, man.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 17:22||   2021-08-26 17:22|| Front Page Top

#38 It was all mapped out in PowerPoint. How could it possibly go wrong?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:23||   2021-08-26 17:23|| Front Page Top

#39 I hope somebody has plans after the evacs to destroy all captured equipment,the airports and whatever goes with it. Let the CCP rebuild them.
Posted by Unosh Hupinelet8756 2021-08-26 17:28||   2021-08-26 17:28|| Front Page Top

#40 Hoo boy. Joe's on the war path now. That of course is what the people at the Pentagon and the Beltway Bandits want.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:35||   2021-08-26 17:35|| Front Page Top

#41 #39 Why wait, start smoking it now, it will keep the talibunnies busy everywhere in the country.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:36||   2021-08-26 17:36|| Front Page Top

#42 Joe tripped and fell headfirst in the eggs-omelets ditch. The media is not tossing soft balls. It's pure blood in the water at this point.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:53||   2021-08-26 17:53|| Front Page Top

#43 AAAAANNNNNNDDDD he couldn't be bothered to take one single question! When are "We The People..." going to address this fraudulency?
Posted by Crusader 2021-08-26 17:55||   2021-08-26 17:55|| Front Page Top

#44 He did take questions. It wasn't pretty. Nobody asked what flavor cone he's going to have tonight.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 17:58||   2021-08-26 17:58|| Front Page Top

#45 Taking one for the team:

Biden on now (about 5:30). sympathy for the families, remembers Beau. Promises to hunt down bad guys...I warned you it was dangerous... mission will go on... has granted everything the military asked for... told them to protect troops...Quotes "send me"...moment of silence..."we have so much to do within our capacity to do it...(?)" they gave me a list of who to call on...takes question about adding forces...told military I will give them whatever they need...military all subscribe to the mission as designed...may know where the ISIS leaders are...takes question from Reuters...inherited situation...no mistake in cooperating with Taliban...major things we've asked Taliban for (trails off).. counting on Taliban self-interest, not trusting them...no evidence so far that Taliban has concluded with ISIS in this attack...takes question from AP...Question starts with you have spoken powerfully, ends with why should we stay another day...'cause more people to get out...opportunity to get them out by 8/31...military has concluded we should get them out despite attacks...and provide other avenues for escape...not many left that want to come out, some Americans want to stay...Question what do you stay to the Afghans who want to get out? We'll try to get you out by 831...Lots of afghans would like to leave...can't guarantee getting them all out...Questions about info to the Taliban and holding Bagram...I gather up all mil guys and ask for their best judgment. They concluded that Bagram was "not much value added." On occasion our military has told Taliban a bus was coming through...there may have been a list of names...question about 12 dead marines-- do you have any responsbility? "Here's the deal: former president made deal with the Taliban" Reporter doesn't buy this. Biden redirects question to deal Trump made...sticks by decision to pull out. Alternative is to pour thousands of troops into war we had already won...never wanted to sacrifice American lives for democracy in a A-stan. If OBL had launched attack out of yemen we wouldn't have gone to A-stan. Mission was to prevent AQ...It was time to end 20-year war...Shouted questions, Biden walks off. 5:57
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 18:00||   2021-08-26 18:00|| Front Page Top

#46 Treasonous lying sack of fermented dogshit
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-26 18:02||   2021-08-26 18:02|| Front Page Top

#47 How long you think before some lefty commentator grouses about Joe quoting Bible verses?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 18:03||   2021-08-26 18:03|| Front Page Top

#48 Joe keeps bringing up "we got bin Laden," never mind that he counseled against it when Bath House was basically cornered by the brass telling him it was a done deal.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 18:06||   2021-08-26 18:06|| Front Page Top

#49 The part about Bagram having no added value (then why did we build it?) floored me, but much worse was that, as far as I could see, he doesn't really give a damn about the lost Marines. He put on a token frowny face at the start, but that was it: no anger, no sorrow, nobody home.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-26 18:43||   2021-08-26 18:43|| Front Page Top

#50 dead-end commentators will continue to reel off knee-slappers about how this is "Trump's fault,"

Trump was going to end all of this last May.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 18:46||   2021-08-26 18:46|| Front Page Top

#51 What the White House is afraid of is stories about overloaded planes with people not wearing masks.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 18:55||   2021-08-26 18:55|| Front Page Top

#52 Number of dead US Troops continues to grow by the hour.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 18:58||   2021-08-26 18:58|| Front Page Top

#53 caught part of it on radio, then TV. He looks like a weak doddering old fool with hubris
Posted by Frank G 2021-08-26 19:03||   2021-08-26 19:03|| Front Page Top

#54 No, he didn't look good. I think the stress is going to make him go down hill fast now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-26 19:20||   2021-08-26 19:20|| Front Page Top

#55 Many US stocks and the Dollar taking a loss. Media/News shares starting to go up.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 19:48||   2021-08-26 19:48|| Front Page Top

#56 The US has been at war for the past 20 years. Watch for a spate of breathless media thumb suckers about "Biden's new war time footing."
Posted by M. Murcek  2021-08-26 19:57||   2021-08-26 19:57|| Front Page Top

#57  Media/News shares starting to go up.

I’m gonna stock up on Rantburg shares — I’ll make a killing! ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-26 20:17||   2021-08-26 20:17|| Front Page Top

#58 Malice, yes
Gross incompetence
Mendacity
and Treason

As Isaiah says:

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers

Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards

Posted by Whiger Hupeaper4536 2021-08-26 21:07||   2021-08-26 21:07|| Front Page Top

#59 "On two occasions, Biden brought up his late son Beau – who was deployed to Iraq as a military lawyer, and died of cancer in 2015 – to show that he carries the 'burden' of ordering troops into and out of battle."

F--k this despicable lying asshole. Trying to make hay out of his son's malady and death, at this moment, is nothing short of obscene. He dishonors the marines whom his incompetence and cowardice have killed.

F--k this wretched excuse for a man.
Posted by Whinemp Slump6578 2021-08-26 21:29||   2021-08-26 21:29|| Front Page Top

#60 Horrific images beginning to come out of massive number of bodies on the ground in bloody pieces etc..
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-26 21:35||   2021-08-26 21:35|| Front Page Top

#61 Not one resignation. No one has been fired. Given the depravity of our current rulers, it's crystal clear we are not voting our way out of this.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-08-26 23:36||   2021-08-26 23:36|| Front Page Top

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