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F-18 fighter jets from US aircraft carrier start patrolling over Kabul as US troops on the ground fire shots: Just 2,000 people reach half-empty US evacuation flights, of whom only 300 are actually American
Daily Mail ^ | 8-19-21 13:29 EDT | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 08/19/2021 11:01:29 AM PDT by Sequoyah101

Overnight, 12 US Air Force C-17 cargo jets removed 2,000 people from the region - an average of just 160 people per flight, despite the planes being able to carry 600 people - six fewer aircraft than in the previous 24 hours. Since August 14, the US has only removed 7,000 people in total from the region.

Only 300 of those who flew out were American and officials can't give a breakdown of who else was on the planes or whether or not they had the right paperwork to be there.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; bidenadmlies; evacuation; evacuees; failure; kabul
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First count for the day that has ended I have found or seen.

This flaming screw up and humiliation continues to be a massive failure by a failed administration.

This news has been out for some time today and I have not seen any such thing posted here.

We are living in the twilight zone as 50 spinators call for more Afghan evacuations.

1 posted on 08/19/2021 11:01:29 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Sequoyah101

I’m sure Biden left enough high tech toys around to make those F-18 patrols very, very dangerous. Here comes the full-on fuster cluck.


2 posted on 08/19/2021 11:05:32 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Sequoyah101
How many of the rescued are female?
3 posted on 08/19/2021 11:06:39 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Sequoyah101

Reuters has not updated for today. This is yesterday’s news.

https://www.reuters.com/world/evacuations-afghanistan-by-country-2021-08-18/

It looks like I expected, a cover-up and trickle of news. They are trying to back page this story. Even the Daily Mail has it far down the page way below the most important news of the day, some woman’s butt.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 11:07:28 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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plus overflight of pook-i-stan. It is a very long trip from the south.

Yeah, I’d say it is a full up nine line free fall fluster cluck and will probably get worse if we ever know the truth. It is being suppressed by the press as we write.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 11:09:36 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Those F-18s had to have permission to fly over somebody’s country to get there.

Who else are we paying?

This stupid son of a bitch Biden.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 11:13:20 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Sequoyah101

Might be interesting to post:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568493-billions-in-us-weaponry-seized-by-taliban

Billions in US weaponry seized by Taliban
By Rebecca Kheel - 08/19/21 06:00 AM EDT


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/gen-milley-says-there-was-nothing-that-i-or-anyone-else-saw-in-intel-indicating-afghanistan-would-collapse-in-11-days/

Gen. Milley Says ‘There Was Nothing That I or Anyone Else Saw’ in Intel Indicating Afghanistan Would Collapse in 11 Days


7 posted on 08/19/2021 11:13:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our incompetent military brass needs to spend less time reading Marx and more time doing their jobs.)
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But JoeJoe says that they planned for EVERY contingency. A pack of lying SOBs.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 11:14:56 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GOPJ

So they’re incompetent and need to be fired. OK by me.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 11:16:39 AM PDT by curious7
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To: TornadoAlley3

That’s the good question for the day.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 11:17:53 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always say, "After the fair trial".)
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To: Sequoyah101

Absolute fluster cuck. Don’t blame US Troops. Blame the generals and Biden Administration.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 11:18:08 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: blueunicorn6

Has to be Pakistan.


12 posted on 08/19/2021 11:22:24 AM PDT by EEGator
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will probably get worse if we ever know the truth. It is being suppressed by the press as we write.

You're absolutely right. We'll never know how many Biden will leave behind. What won't be missed, thanks to the international media leaking out the truth, is the soon-to-be desperation of our hostages. I suspect they will be looking for ways out of country, perhaps to the north or the east, in Pakistan. We'll never know the true horror that's taking place thanks to our controlled, state media.

13 posted on 08/19/2021 11:23:30 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Sequoyah101

Bookmark


14 posted on 08/19/2021 11:24:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Sequoyah101

After how many days did they let the Taliban alone????


15 posted on 08/19/2021 11:24:57 AM PDT by Wuli (Biden )
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To: TornadoAlley3
Ned Price is
16 posted on 08/19/2021 11:25:33 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Sequoyah101

Thanks for posting.

A lot of information in article. abc journalists are not being let through to airport. Pictures and more information at link.


17 posted on 08/19/2021 11:26:42 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: TornadoAlley3

Wow. Phil Mudd. Cnn


18 posted on 08/19/2021 11:28:09 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Wuli

None of this woulda happened if we followed my emBASEeee strategee. from my home page

I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.

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19 posted on 08/19/2021 11:29:20 AM PDT by Kevmo ( 600 political prisoners in Washington, DC. You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.)
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To: Sequoyah101

fuel+flight+maint costs/160=?


20 posted on 08/19/2021 11:31:00 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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