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2021-08-23 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2021-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Firefight at Kabul airport leaves one Afghan officer dead, German military says

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:04|| 2021-08-23 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Taliban reportedly refuse extending Aug. 31 deadline for troop pullout : LIVE UPDATES

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:06|| 2021-08-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Special operations helicopters from unit that helped kill Bin Laden gather at Kabul airport - but Biden still hasn't let them off the leash to rescue Americans who can't get to evacuation flights

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 07:39|| 2021-08-23 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 US Embassy Tells Americans: ~~Do Not Go to Kabul Airport~~ You're Screwed

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-23 12:00|| 2021-08-23 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, if only we had a large airbase, secured by American troops....

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-23 13:01|| 2021-08-23 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Frank, that would make so much sense that it's easy to see why Team Biden didn't do it.

As I'm not the first to say, the stuff is really going to hit the oscillator when we get to the point of having to airlift the Marines and airborne and leaving everyone else behind.

Assuming, as I pray, that we can airlift the Marines and airborne. If not, break out your Chosin Reservoir handbooks.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-23 14:47|| 2021-08-23 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 So 14,500 "Not on the chart" evacuated.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-23 16:14|| 2021-08-23 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8
Biden is an old trout, he wouldn't know how to win even if all the cards were stacked in his favor.

I'm done, call me when Kamala Harris rises to the office, i.e. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse will be in full gallop by then.

Posted by Whulet Hupailing5376 2021-08-23 16:33|| 2021-08-23 16:33|| Front Page Top

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