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Biden Rejects Army Report Warning Of Afghanistan Debacle: ‘That’s Not What I Was Told’

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Biden rejected an Army Report that showed multiple commanders were involved in the operation. This indicated the Administration failed to recognize the rapidly deteriorating Afghanistan situation over the summer and placed American troops at greater risk.

The report, first brought to light by the Washington Post, reveals what they call “bleak, blunt assessments of top military commanders” in claiming White House officials “failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance on Afghanistan’s capital.”

The Post also revealed administration officials “resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation of embassy personnel and Afghan allies weeks before Kabul’s fall, placing American troops ordered to carry out the withdrawal in greater danger.”

In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday, the President dismissed the extensive report out of hand.

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Biden Rejects Army Report

“No, that’s not that I was told,” Biden said to Holt when asked of the details of the investigation. “There was no good time to get out, but if we had not gotten out, they acknowledged we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back in.”

Pressed further on if he was rejecting the report Biden replied, “Yes, I am.”

“So they’re not true?” Holt asked.

Biden replied, “I am rejecting them.”

Watch Biden’s expression below at the 5 minute mark:

The Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan led to a suicide bombing that killed 13 service members, a ‘retaliatory’ drone strike by the United States that killed 10 civilians – including an aid worker and 7 children – and countless Americans being left behind in the Taliban-controlled country for an extensive period of time.

Military officials, according to the Post report, had “in many ways cobbled together on the fly” the evacuation plan.

This report details several differences in how the withdrawal plan should be implemented and charges officials from the White House and State Department of failing to recognize the rapid advance by the Taliban.

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Which is True and which are False?

General Mark Milley (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) privately blamed State Department for Afghanistan’s failed evacuation efforts.

In sworn testimony, multiple commanders stated that administration officials had not anticipated what might happen. Milley claims that the State Department made a mistake.

Recall that in the last call between President Biden and Ashra Ghani, the former lamented the “perception” problem he was having with the withdrawal and urged the Afghanistan President to fix the messaging problem.

“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said.

“And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”

Milley testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that while he wouldn’t share his personal conversations with the President, he maintained his assessment “back in the fall of 2020, and remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,500.”

Head of U.S. Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie testified, “I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.”

Yet, Biden couldn’t recall those recommendations.

“Biden lied when he told [George] Stephanopoulos no one advised him against his timeline-based withdrawal,” Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted. “His recklessness resulted in the deaths of 13 US service members and abandonment of countless citizens & allies.”

“Biden can’t avoid the consequences of his actions,” she concluded. “He must resign.”

Democrat Senator Chris Coons argued in 2019 that Joe Biden would be the better Commander-in-Chief because, “unlike (Trump) he would rely upon and listen to the advice of generals and diplomats.”

Apart from the 13 soldiers who perished in the attack on Kabul Airport, there were 45 other casualties, including some with brain injuries.