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Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his national security adviser Jake Sullivan over key decisions made in run-up to US withdrawal from Afghanistan
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 22, 2021 | Jack Wright

Posted on 08/22/2021 9:59:25 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Gen.Blather

“The Democrats can’t replace Joe...”

Get rid of Pelosi, replace her with Trump (I understand the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress), impeach Biden and Harris at the same time. Do I need more sleep?


21 posted on 08/22/2021 10:57:55 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: C19fan

The “not me, it’s not my fault” is both expected and nauseating. If you are too wimpy to tell your boss the truth then you have no business being near the levers of power.


22 posted on 08/22/2021 11:03:00 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: C19fan

So they’re all a bunch of losers right along with President Retard.

Thanks for admitting that.


23 posted on 08/22/2021 11:17:57 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say )
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To: billyboy15

Commie gets to name her own VP ... Senate has to confirm.


24 posted on 08/22/2021 11:18:25 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Qiviut
Commie gets to name her own VP

In theory, yes. In reality, she will have no say.

25 posted on 08/22/2021 11:19:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I was replying to this “She is from CA so the Gov (at present a Liberal) will simply name another.” ... didn’t get into the weeds as to who is REALLY going to make the pick.


26 posted on 08/22/2021 11:22:06 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

yeah...too afriad my ass! Too ambitious, is more like it. These people are inexperienced, indoctrinated, and have the wrong beliefs but the’re not stupid. Arguably they’re the “best and brightest” and while I don’t necessarily buy that I will claim they are smart enough to recognize a sinking ship when they’re onboard one.

Put yourself in the place of some 20 or 30-something with a fancy degree and your first real big job in government. You started out dreaming of a great future and now you’re confronted daily with a drooling old fool who you and all your pals around the pub table agree can’t possibly survive 4 years. You also can count and thus know Harris already has her own staff who would be your competition to keep your position in a Harris administration.

So what are you likely to do? Pin your hopes and future to the dotard? Or start positioning yourself to become part of what comes next?

I’m certain this is going on although I can’t prove it, just because I understand how large organizations filled with ambitious young “rising stars” works. They’ll be discrete of course, but I’ll bet the family jewels that Biden’s staff is setting him up, feeding him conflicting or misleading information, holding back and shading what he is told, and certainly not volunteering to hold his hand while he goes down with the ship.

You might even start seeing the Afghanistan debacle as a crisis not to be wasted.


27 posted on 08/22/2021 11:23:12 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Qiviut

“Commie gets to name her own VP ... Senate has to confirm.”

Sorry, I seemed to have had a senior moment thinking heel’s up was still a Senator.


28 posted on 08/22/2021 11:26:14 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: C19fan
Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his National Security Adviser over key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Can you blame them? After all, this is the guy who faced down Corn Pop.

29 posted on 08/22/2021 11:32:34 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: billyboy15

That’s ok - LOL!


30 posted on 08/22/2021 11:34:24 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: C19fan
I don't believe commies in the Biden Administration were afraid to talk to Biden.

I don't believe this mess in Afghanistan is a 'mistake' anymore than I believe the mess at the border is a 'mistake'...

It's too many 'mistakes' with the same consequence - destabilizing the country:

- choices doing the Afghan pull out were doubted by people in our system... ignoring that advice was intentional.

Same with going from energy independence to energy dependence... same going from normal crimes rates to crimes rates on speed... all in 8 months.

No, it's too many ... and all of it benefits China. Too much to be a coincidence.

31 posted on 08/22/2021 11:36:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (Iran, China, North Korea and Pakistan are reverse engineering captured AMERICAN weapons as we type.)
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To: canuck_conservative

—”So the article is basically saying the Biden Administration consists of gutless wimps?”

First-class leaders want first-class help, second-class leaders want third-class help.

Nothing new.


32 posted on 08/22/2021 11:54:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: C19fan

I believe Joe has a neurological problem with his brain. People with brain issues can get very angry and even violent (in my own family). Now, the fault is with all of people, his family, leaders of both Parties, Trump, Biden Cabinet, the media etc. He never should have been allowed to run or continue without 25th Amendment, at the least.


33 posted on 08/22/2021 12:14:13 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Qiviut

BOTH House & Senate need to vote on new VP.


34 posted on 08/22/2021 12:15:25 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BradyLS

The whole plan rested on the ANA’s capability and willingness to fight.


And regardless of any inherent flaws, the Biden Administration almost systematically stripped them of capability and willingness to fight.


35 posted on 08/22/2021 12:26:26 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: PghBaldy

You are correct - majority vote of both.


36 posted on 08/22/2021 12:27:11 PM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: KrisKrinkle

That’s a great question!


37 posted on 08/22/2021 1:02:58 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: All

When it comes to Afghanistan there is a refusal not only by the media and the so called (in name only) democratic party but by Christian leaders like Pope Francis to approach redressing the Taliban for it being a theocracy following the sharia creed which denies free will and is authorized by Our Creator to execute non believers.


38 posted on 08/22/2021 1:47:00 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: Gen.Blather

The only thing the Republicans can stall is approving a new VP. And they can’t, because on a matter like that, they will have to approve someone, and there is certain to be a Republican defector.


39 posted on 08/22/2021 3:19:38 PM PDT by buwaya
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and there is certain to be a Republican defector.

We pretty much know who those will be.

40 posted on 08/22/2021 3:20:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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