Bipartisan Senators Rip Biden Team During Blinken Hearing, Threaten Action Against Defense Sec

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By Nick Arama

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying again today before Congress about the Afghanistan debacle. Yesterday, he testified before the House and there were some fascinating questions, including one asking Blinken about being questioned by the FBI in regard to Hunter Biden.
 
Today it’s the Senate.
 
Blinken started with a statement that once again pushed the Biden talking points about how Biden had no choice but to withdraw in the horrible messed up way that he did because he was trying to adhere to the Trump deal. But they changed the date on the deal twice, so they had already changed “the deal.” Plus the deal was conditioned on certain things that the Taliban violated so there was no obligation to adhere to it. But Biden did anyway without any conditions and without holding the Taliban to the points of the deal on their side. The Biden team refuses to talk about the horrible way they dealt with the withdrawal, just repeating over and over again: “It was time to end the war.”
 
But even some of the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have had enough of this game and want answers.
 
The Chair of the Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), made it clear that they weren’t buying Blinken’s deflections, saying that the execution of the withdrawal was “clearly and fatally flawed,” that the Committee wanted a full explanation and there has to be “accountability.”
 


 
Menendez said it wasn’t a question about ending the war, the issue that Biden/Blinken try to deflect to, but about how they conducted the withdrawal. “Doing the right thing in the wrong way can end up being the wrong thing,” Menendez says.
 

 
Menendez was also furious that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin refused to testify before the Committee and threatened to subpoena him.
 


 


 
That’s a big threat and indicates how disturbed they are about all this.
 
There were already some hot moments today. Sen. James Risch (R-ID) asked Blinken a question that many of us have wanted asked: Basically, who is controlling Joe Biden in the White House — who is behind the button cutting him off from speaking, as we’ve seen happen multiple times already?
 


 
Blinken tries to stammer out of it, saying that everyone knows that Biden speaks “very clearly and very deliberately for himself” — a laughable proposition, given his frequent incoherence and his inability to speak without gaffes absent notes or a teleprompter.
 
Here’s one example of him being cut off:
 


 
Blinken can’t even be honest about that.
 



 
Blinken keeps giving the same number of 100 American citizens trapped in Afghanistan, despite some Americans having gotten out, so it’s clear that’s not a real number.
 


 
We can look at the deaths, the Americans and SIVs still left, and the terrorists left in strength in Afghanistan with whom we will doubtless have to deal in the future. But Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) nailed Blinken in response to him saying no one could anticipate the government was going to collapse, noting there was ample intelligence that “It was going to hit the fan.” Rubio further pointed out how this has created the issue of our enemies — China, Russia, and Iran — thinking they can now take advantage of this incompetence.

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do you recall the Three Stooges from the late 1930’s?? probably not, most of you were not even an idea in your daddy’s pants. the “slap stick comedy” is no different. Look at some of the short clips on plots. Wow, very similar. Now examine the movie “Duck Soup”. recall that Groucho Marx’s plays a faux, newly pres. in Freedonia, much like America today. His spies Harp, Cchico and Zeppo are spies much like the three stooges blinken, austin and miley. the ravel country Sylvanian’s relationship deteriorates and the countries go to war. Where in this case, miley sabatoged Trumps plan for withdrawal and the treasonous bilinken and austin encouraged the capitulation under joey. Wow Hitler and Chamberlin 1938, how history repeats itself.

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This is a complete embarrassment. The world is laughing at us

Thanks joe

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Trump’s Doha Agreement contained NO REQUIREMENT that the Taliban cease attacking Afghan troops as we withdrew ours.

There was NO REQUIREMENT that the Taliban negotiate with the recognized Afghan government that we had supported for decades.

Anyone who bothers to read the document and has the wits to understand it will quickly discover tacit acknowledgement on the part of the Trump administration that THE TALIBAN would be TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY and DISPLACING THE CURRENT AFGHAN GOVERNMENT. Everything in the document is predicated on an understanding that THE TALIBAN was “the post-settlement Afghan Islamic government” that would be running the show once we left.

Anyone in Afghanistan who read the agreement—in particular, every member of the recognized Afghan government at every level, and EVERY officer of the Afghan military—would have to have been a complete idiot not to understand that the Trump administration had just jerked the rug out from under them.

Not only did the Agreement tell them in no uncertain terms that we would be leaving them on their own; IT ALSO OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGED WHO WE UNDERSTOOD WOULD BE THEIR SUCCESSORS: it was THE TALIBAN that was agreeing to keep out terrorists; it was THE TALIBAN that was agreeing to let their former enemies leave the country; it was THE TALIBAN agreeing not to “provide visas, passports, travel permits, or other legal documents to those who pose a threat to the security of the United States and its allies to enter Afghanistan.” ONLY A GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING A COUNTRY can do such things.

THIS was what set the stage for the Afghan government to flee and the Afghan army to suddenly evaporate. THE DOHA AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED THE TERMS OF OUR SURRENDER, and every government and military official read the writing on the wall.

President Biden didn’t create the conditions that exited when he took office. DONALD TRUMP DID.

On top of giving notice to giving notice to the Afghan government and military and hanging a May 1st deadline over their heads, TRUMP MADE NO PLANS WHATSOEVER FOR THE EVACUATION OF ANYONE OTHER THAN THE LAST OF OUR TROOPS. The logistics of that had to be created from scratch after Biden took office and his administration got organized.

The Doha Agreement: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-For-Bringing-Peace-to-Afghanistan-02.29.20.pdf

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Biden occupied the White House when we withdrew from Afghanistan.

And responsibility for the disaster is on Biden and Biden alone.

Don’t worry: it’s highly likely Trump will be president again so you can then blame him without looking like such a f*cking moron.

This is one of Biden’s numerous failures to date.

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Biden approval rating slips to 42 percent in new poll

Only 34 percent of respondents approved of Biden on foreign policy, while 59 percent disapproved. That’s compared with 44 percent approval and 44 percent disapproval in August.

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It was you joe. Not Trump
Kayleigh McEnany

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3da1F9ytSs

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