Posted on 08/15/2021 11:09:13 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
(CNN)The American flag at the US embassy in Kabul has been taken down, marking a final step in the evacuation of the embassy, days earlier than US officials initially projected, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The US scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and top officials from its diplomatic compound in Afghanistan Sunday as Taliban fighters entered the city, Afghan government officials fled the country and gunfire was heard at Kabul airport, multiple sources told CNN. Early Sunday, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN that the plan was to pull all US personnel from the embassy in Kabul over the next 72 hours. Hours later, most US embassy staff had been moved to Kabul airport for flights out of the country.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told House lawmakers Sunday that the evacuation was a "highly dynamic and very risky operation," even as he and other senior US officials worked to project a sense of control.
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The Rainbow flag or the American flag?
Took three nimnols to write this?
As long as the “pride” flag is still up...
Just watched some CNN...and they are seriously trying to polish this turd.
Now, off to the shower.
LOL. It's supposed to add credibility and seriousness. You know they are really serious when they have four more writers. However, is reserved for writing hit pieces on PDJT.
So everyone is out now...
Taliban to declare ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ soon – report:
The Taliban, who have rampaged across Afghanistan in recent days and earlier today entered the capital, Kabul, are on the verge of declaring that they have taken control of the country and that it is now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, according to Press Association reports citing a Taliban official.
The declaration is expected to be made from the presidential palace in Kabul following the departure of Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, earlier, who apparently fled, initially to Tajikistan. His current location is unconfirmed.
Senior Taliban commanders announced within the last two hours that they had taken control of the palace, according to news wire reports. More details and further confirmation are awaited.
Taliban are in Kabul
Note to Democrats/MSM:
This is what an insurrection looks like.
Now what is to happen to the 5,000 young Marines and soldiers Biden rushed in to protect the embassy people. How will they get out?
Why did we go to Afghanistan? Why not Turkmenistan? Turkmenistan has severe human rights issues. What? no viable poppy fields? No oil or other minerals?? WHY? Someone tell me why we didn’t go to Turkmenistan!!!🤬🤬
Look, this is less Biden’s fault than it is Biden’s total lack of understanding of what was going on1 And why would he know what was going on? For now, lets not consider his mental condition. Even if he were at the top of his game, he would listen to the generals. It is they, and the state department who have been lying all this time about Afghanistan. Blame the Neocons. Blame the woke military. They have been lying to presidents and the American people for over a decade. The generals have returned to their Vietnam selves. Ike was right. Beware of the military complex. They see everything in terms of war.
Agreed re Biden. His biggest problem is going along with it.
So besides Embassy top staff who are being evacuated, does anyone know how many Americans are actually in Kabul who are being told to "shelter in place"?
Unless I see footage that has been authorized independently as NOT being a Deep Fake of this flag coming down, and that the Embassy has been emptied of Americans who are safely on friendly terra firma, this is fiction.
And the sad, likely reality, is this is Jill's fault and Bidet thinks he watching footage from 1975.
Or last year.
Nothing of what we see is Biden’s policy.
It’s Obama, Jarret, Rice, and the rest of his Circle of the Undead that are calling the shots, which all happen to favor Communists, Chinese and Jihads. And PoCs.
American ambassador is out and probably many embassy staff and family members. There are about 3000 American contractors there - not out. They have been told to "shelter in place". As of this morning the Kabul airport was under fire and our State department has the audacity to say "shelter in place".
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