Fact-checking Biden and Republicans on Afghanistan
President Biden has made remarks “that haven’t always squared with the facts” in defending how he has handled withdrawal of U.S. forces and citizens from Afghanistan, FactCheck.org reports.
Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that his decision to withdraw completely went against the advice of top military advisers, who wanted him to keep about 2,500 troops. “It was split,” Biden said. “That wasn’t true.” Stephanopoulos asked, “They didn’t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?” and Biden replied, “No. Not at — not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn’t argue against that.” Stephanopoulos pressed the case, and Biden denied that he could not recall anyone telling him that 2,500 troops should remain.
“We don’t know what exactly Biden’s top military advisors may have told him in private conversations, or whether their recommendations may have changed over time,” Fact Check reports, but says Biden’s account is contradicted by reporting from The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and a public Feb. 3 report from the Afghanistan Study Group created by Congress recommended against troop withdrawal unless the Taliban met conditions set in a withdrawal agreement the Trump administration reached with the Taliban in February 2020.
Biden claimed that the concept of “nation building” in Afghanistan “never made any sense” to him, but he publicly favored it in the early 2000s, FactCheck notes: “In a 2001 interview, he was asked if the U.S. should “be in the business of nation building” in Afghanistan ‘if and when the Taliban falls.’ Biden replied, ‘Absolutely, along with the rest of the world.'”
I’ve never seen or read about a President more worthy of the 25th Amendment; the best choice in American history.
Charley you must have a very short memory
Yea KAG, I forgot Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton…damn memory lapses.
Biden is better than Kamala. Neither are deserving of the position. Hopefully these states that screwed up their elections by allowing 1-2 months to vote, unchecked mail in ballots, ballot harvesters, and unobserved ballot counting get their elections under control. Then this joker can be voted out in 2024.
Jeremy President Biden got over 270 electoral votes that’s all you need to be president. In 2024 you better run somebody except Trump he is literally killing his voters in Trump Country don’t think they will be enough left
Dirty Joe got the electoral votes of MN and DC, most of the rest were stolen by his minions in the middle of the night. That’s been proven in AZ and GA…so far.
Charley no it hasn’t lay off the Kool Aid