Update (1540ET): Late into the speech, Biden addressed critics who ask why the US couldn’t have started the evacuation sooner. Biden insisted, with no evidence to back it up, that no matter when the evacuation started, there still would have been a “rush to the airport.”
And while Biden waxes poetic about the Bin Laden raid, it’s important to remember that he was actually against the raid as Vice President.
A reminder: Biden was against the bin laden raid.
— Cincy Hustle (@cincyhustle513) August 31, 2021
And also served as vice president for 8 of those years, and served in some elected capacity for at least 16 of the 20 years.
While Joe Biden is dunking on ending a 20-year mistake of a war, remember he was the vice president for eight of those years.
— Annie Frey (@anniefreyshow) August 31, 2021
Biden was a U.S. senator, vice president, or president for 16 of the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan. He voted for it, funded it, re-authorized it, and prosecuted it for 16 years.
No politician on earth is more responsible for the failed mission in Afghanistan than Joe Biden. https://t.co/qWhcS7w377
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 31, 2021
Bottom line: the Afghanistan pullout was a success, but any of the unsuccessful bits were President Trump’s fault.
Biden’s message today (but much shoutier, as if his doctors haven’t quite figured out the right mixture of uppers to dope him with following his afternoon nap): Everything in Afghanistan was a success, except for all the bad stuff I did, which was obviously somebody else’s fault.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 31, 2021
And it doesn’t matter anyway, because the important thing is that this horrible money-wasting war is over: “I refuse to send another generation to Afghanistan…300 million dollars a day for two decades…I refuse to continue a war no longer in the national interest of our country.”
We are hardly surprised that Biden won’t be taking questions tonight.
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Update (1534ET): President Biden confirms that 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan, almost all of whom are dual citizens. “The bottom line: 90% of Americans in Afghanistan, who wanted to leave, we’re able to leave,” Biden says. For those Americans remaining in Afghanistan, “there is no deadline.”
Some were incredulous that Biden, who shouted and slurred through most of the speech, would brag about this. And yet he declared that “no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all the history,” he said.
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