Even by the low standards of the Biden administration, yesterday was a disasterous fiasco that exceeds anything in recent modern history dating back perhaps to the darkest days of the Carter administration.
1) Mass murder of children in Afghanistan. After weeks of lying and covering up the deaths of an aid worker and seven children, they were finally forced to acknowledge this mass murder after the media forced their hand. The military lied about killing an ISIS terrorist after being pressured by the Biden administration to retaliate for the bombing at the airport. They never dreamed anyone would compile the evidence to prove otherwise. Lie and after lie unraveled. Miley is now not only guilty of treason and incompetence but also mass murder of children. Of course, no one will be held accountable because if incompetence is grounds for dismissal, no one would be left under the Biden administration. A dangerous precedent for them.
2) Vaccine booster fiasco. Biden was again exposed for politicizing the virus by deeming boosters necessary before the scientists had ruled on the issue. He was left to look like a fool whose hypocrisy was on full display after the FDA voted 16-2 not to recommend them.
3) Illegals flooding Texas. Not dozens or hundreds or thousands, but tens of thousands illegals are pouring across the Texas border. No one has a clue who they are. They are not vaccinated or tested for the virus but distributed throughout the South where cases are surging as a result. There are so many that there are no facilities to keep them anymore. They are being kept in inhumane conditions under a bridge. Like animals. The FAA ordered the airspace above the area closed for political purposes to avoid negative publicity. A gross violation of First Amendment and abuse of authority. The film footage is like something from a horror film.
4) France recalls its ambassador! Biden is friends with the Taliban but an enemy of France. It would be impossible to describe the level of incompetence that resulted in this outcome. No fiction writer could make this up. Chaos, ruin, and incompetence is everywhere. And where is Old Joe? Bicycling in Delaware. Where is Kamala? No one has seen her in months. She is distancing herself from these disasters. The only smart thing that she has ever done.
*Yawn*
Funny how Richard didn't care that for 4 years that Donald Trump lied to him every single day including about a deadly virus that has killed nearly 700,000 Americans. And there is no "booster fiasco" or politicization of the vaccine. Just more right wing propaganda. And again, Criminal Donald claimed he would end all "illegal immigration" and only left President Biden a mess to clean up just like with the economy, COVID 19, and Afghanistan. Right wingers couldn't care less about children in Afghanistan, they are trying to score cheap political points, they don't even care about children in America who are dying from gun violence and COVID each day. This disaster was created by Trump who surrendered to the Taliban and let's remind Richard of Trump's African disaster where our troops were killed and the sick sob laughed about it.
President Trump caught cracking joke about terrorists while discussing Niger ambush where four U.S. soldiers diedSeptember 10, 2018President Trump drew laughs from some of his aides as he joked about what a “rough business” terrorism is while discussing an ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead last year, according to the latest secret recording released Monday.
Trump made the comments during a closed-door meeting at the White House in the wake of the Oct. 4, 2017, attack on the U.S. Special Forces, who were advising local troops fighting Islamic extremists in the African nation.
Former White House communications aide Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly recorded the conversation and provided a tape of it to MSNBC on Monday afternoon.
The President can be heard on the tape telling his aides the U.S. and Nigerien troops “got attacked by 50 real fighters,” who he claimed were in Africa because the American military had chased them out of the Middle East.
"So it’s a rough business. I wouldn’t, I don’t think I’d want to be a terrorist right now,” Trump said, prompting guffaws from the staffers in the room. “It’s not a good life…The reason they’re there, is because we forced them out, and it’s not nearly as many, it’s not nearly as intense, but it’s pretty intense, you see that happening. So that’s that.”
In an interview with host Craig Melvin, Manigault Newman said Trump made the off-the-cuff comments during a communications team meeting attended by several people who she said didn’t have proper security clearances for such a conversation.
Manigault Newman, who has been on a media blitz since the release last month of her tell-all book about the Trump administration, said she interpreted the President’s lighthearted comments, and the subsequent laughter from aides, as “kind of mocking the death of these soldiers.”
“It’s not a laughing matter,” Manigault Newman told Melvin. “We lost four American soldiers.”
The ambush, which also left four Nigerien soldiers dead, has been shrouded in controversy since U.S. Special Forces in Africa are only supposed to advise and assist local troops from behind the front lines. The Pentagon has blamed the bloody ambush on “individual, organizational, and institutional failures,” but has yet to fault any particular individual or strategic decision.
During the private White House chat, Trump shed some light on what his views are on U.S. military involvement in Africa.
“You know, it’s a rough business,” he can be heard saying in the recording. “They’re rough too, they want to kill us. We’ve let the military do what they have to do. And whether you call it rules of engagement or any way you want to say it, but we’ve let them do.”
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was present for the meeting, did not return a request for comment.
Trump infamously inflamed the ambush controversy further after he was accused of forgetting the name of one of the fallen soldiers while on a condolence call with his wife.
“I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband’s name, and that’s what hurt me the most, because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why can’t you remember his name?” Myeshia Johnson, the wife of late Army Sgt. La David Johnson, told ABC News weeks after his death.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), who represents Johnson’s district and listened in on the condolence call, also accused Trump of telling Johnson that her husband “knew what he was getting into.” Trump denies the allegation.
Wilson said Monday she wasn’t surprised Trump tried to “make light” of the Niger ambush.
“It is appalling, but this is the same man, after all, who told the widow of my constituent, Sgt. La David Johnson, during his so-called condolence call that her husband knew what he was signing up for,” Wilson told the Daily News. “The recording is yet another example of how unfit Mr. Trump is to serve as our nation’s commander-in-chief and how he cannot resist any opportunity to massage his insatiable ego by taking false credit.”
Bob Woodward, in his recent book, “Fear,” details the President’s struggle dealing with the families of fallen soldiers.
“Some in the Oval Office had copies of the service records. None of what Trump cited was there. He was just making it up,” Woodward writes. “He knew what the families wanted to hear.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-trump-tape-niger-ambush-soldiers-20180910-story.htmlAfghanistan to release 400 'hard-core' Taliban prisoners in bid for peace August 8, 2020 KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for peace talks aimed at ending almost two decades of war.
The insurgent group welcomed the move and said it was ready to begin talks within 10 days of the release.
Under election-year pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for a deal allowing him to bring home American troops, the country’s grand assembly, or Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release.
The Taliban militant had demanded the release of the 400, the last batch among 5,000 prisoners to be freed, as a condition to join peace talks.
“In order to remove an obstacle, allow the start of the peace process and an end of bloodshed, the Loya Jirga approves the release of 400 Taliban,” the assembly said in a resolution.
Minutes later, President Ashraf Ghani announced, “Today, I will sign the release order of these 400 prisoners.”
Last week Ghani invited the grand assembly, some 3,200 community leaders and politicians, to Kabul to advise the government on whether the prisoners should be freed.
Among the 400 are Taliban members accused of major attacks against civilians and foreigners, including a 2017 truck bombing near the German embassy in Kabul that killed more than 150 people - the deadliest attack in the 19-year insurgency.
Taliban and official sources have told Reuters the group includes members of the militant Haqqani network, which has ties to the Taliban.
With the release, the Afghan government will fulfil its pledge to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
Talks between the government and the Taliban will start in Doha this week, Western diplomats said. Ghani appealed to the hardline Islamist group to pledge to a complete ceasefire ahead of talks.
But while the Taliban agreed to start talks within 10 days of the release, it did not commit to an immediate ceasefire.
“Ceasefire is and will be an important part of the talks, which will be decided during talks (not before),” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Reuters on the phone from Doha, where the group’s political office is based.
Sunday’s government decision capped more than five months of fitful talks after Washington and the Taliban agreed on the release of the Taliban prisoners as a condition for the talks with Kabul.
BLOODY ATTACKS
Deliberation over the release of last batch of Taliban prisoners had triggered outrage among civilians and rights groups.
It has also proved wrenching for the families of the more than 100,000 Afghan civilians thought to have been killed or injured in the past decade, more than 10,000 last year alone.
The Loya Jirga had urged the government to seek forgiveness from the families of those killed in attacks carried out by the Taliban prisoners being released, important under many interpretations of Islamic law.
U.S. officials had encouraged the Loya Jirga in recent days to support the prisoners’ release despite the drawbacks in order to get the peace process moving.Neighbouring Pakistan, seen as key to helping pave the way to talks, welcomed Sunday’s decision.
“We hope that with implementation of this step relating to the prisoners’ release, as envisaged in the U.S.-Taliban Peace Agreement, the Intra-Afghan Negotiations will commence at the earliest,” Pakistan’s foreign office said in a statement.
Ahead of the Loya Jirga, Human Rights Watch cautioned that many of the prisoners had been jailed under “overly broad terrorism laws that provide for indefinite preventive detention”.
With the Nov. 3 presidential election looming, Trump is eager to fulfil a major campaign promise to end America’s longest war.
The drawdown will bring the number of U.S. troops to “a number less than 5,000” by the end of November, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in an interview broadcast on Saturday, down from current levels of around 8,600.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-taliban/afghanistan-to-release-400-hard-core-taliban-prisoners-in-bid-for-peace-idUSKCN25507I
