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Former Joint Chiefs chair on Afghanistan: 'I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong'
CNN ^ | Aug 24 | By Nicky Robertson

Posted on 08/24/2021 2:28:28 AM PDT by RandFan

Then-Vice President Joe Biden was right when he urged then-President Barack Obama to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday, adding that the US could have left Afghanistan earlier.

"I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong," Mullen, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, told ABC News on "This Week."

Mullen also said that the US should have withdrawn its troops after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011. "I think in retrospect, yeah we should have (left) ... I don't think it was possible for us to just abruptly walk away right after we killed bin Laden, but clearly we could have earlier than we did," he said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; biden; mullen; obamagenerals; rop; taliban; xiden
Rare repentance from a former Joint Chiefs of Staff.

If only Milley had any honor he would resign.

1 posted on 08/24/2021 2:28:28 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Where’s the guy whose first name is a part of an ass and last name is Powell?


2 posted on 08/24/2021 2:33:44 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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Better that no Military brass show face for the indefinite future. An embarrassing disgrace to the Country.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 2:36:30 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Yeah man a few thousand American Troops put the fear of allah in the taliban.

Now there will be mass killings and women who can read will have their eyes cut out.

I guess we go back to just bombing the #@@@ out of anything that looks remotely like a terrorist camp


4 posted on 08/24/2021 2:45:47 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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I guess we go back to just bombing the #@@@ out of anything that looks remotely like a terrorist camp

Well then we’ll need the ultimate in precision guided weapons, because the terrorist camps will soon be in our own backyards after the leftists in government succeed in importing a million or two from Afghanistan.

5 posted on 08/24/2021 2:51:15 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: RandFan

Why didn’t that POS just say “Whoops ?”


6 posted on 08/24/2021 3:54:19 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: RandFan

Is this CNN’s attempt to try and make it seem like Biden was right in the past and not a complete idiot?


7 posted on 08/24/2021 4:17:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

Of course but I find it funny no mention of Obama.

It was Trump who should take the credit for getting us out.

Obama and Biden led the failed “surge” including this admiral i’m guessing. Remember that? it was between 2009 and 2012.

Obama has been quiet. He called Afghanistan “the good war”.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 4:20:16 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Mike Mullen can kiss my MAGA @$$!!


9 posted on 08/24/2021 4:22:32 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: RandFan

LOSERS!!!! YOU’RE ALL DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT LOSERS !


10 posted on 08/24/2021 4:27:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RandFan
If only Milley had any honor he would resign.

But if he resigned, would he still have access to the commissary's cosmetics department?

11 posted on 08/24/2021 4:37:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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‘I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong’

These b*#tards make a career ot of being wrong. Who was it that said this about generals...? ‘Remove one loser and there are 15 more right behind him, just like him, kissing his a&@.’


12 posted on 08/24/2021 4:54:01 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: RandFan

The Architect behind the Coup against Trump.


13 posted on 08/24/2021 6:26:32 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: RandFan

Mullen and Milly, two idiots.

The great US military was never this bad.

The current miles leadership is a joke.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 11:19:39 AM PDT by Pearfect
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