Posted on 11/23/2014 10:00:37 AM PST by gusopol3
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: Martha, let's keep our eye on the ball. The reason I've been in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq 20 times — I've been up in the Kunar — I've been throughout that whole country, mostly in a helicopter and sometimes in a vehicle. The fact is we went there for one reason: to get those people who killed Americans, al-Qaida. We've decimated al-Qaida central. We have eliminated Osama bin Laden. That was our purpose. And in fact, in the meantime, what we said we would do, we would help train the Afghan military. It's their responsibility to take over their own security. That's why, with 49 of our allies in Afghanistan, we've agreed on a gradual drawdown so we're out of there by the year — in the year 2014.
My friend and the governor say it's based on conditions, which means it depends. It does not depend for us. It is the responsibility of the Afghans to take care of their own security. We have trained over 315,000, mostly without incident. There have been more than two dozen cases of green on blue where Americans have been killed.
If we do — if the — if the measures the military has taken do not take hold, we will not go on joint patrols, we will not train in the field. We'll only train in the — in the Army bases that exist there.
But we are leaving. We are leaving in 2014, period, and in the process, we're going to be saving over the next 10 years another $800 billion. We've been in this war for over a decade. The primary objective is almost completed. Now all we're doing is putting the Kabul government
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My friend and the governor say it's based on conditions, which means it depends. It does not depend for us."
He won the debate with this lie.
Biden was right. We were out then obozo took us back in!
My dream would be to have Obama impeached and convicted and jailed for life shortly before the 2016 election so that we would have Biden as president in as short a time as possible.
Eleven years too late.
Better make that 13 since Obama just re-upped for 2 more.
Gruber may have been advising Biden about the stupidity of the American voter, or maybe it was visa versa. In any case, the same group fell for the line each was putting out.
The only Americans in Afghanistan after December 2001 should have been nuclear decon specialists helping clean up the radioactive mess at Tora Bora, and the envoy delivering Omar the message that “we have lots more of these, don’t make us come back”.
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