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Excerpts of call between Joe Biden and Ashraf Ghani July 23
Reuters via Investing.com ^ | August 31, 2021

Posted on 08/31/2021 1:37:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani spoke by phone July 23. Here are excerpts from that call, based on a transcript and recording reviewed by Reuters:

BIDEN: Mr. President. Joe Biden.

GHANI: Of course, Mr. President, such a pleasure to hear your voice.

BIDEN: You know, I am a moment late. But I mean it sincerely. Hey look, I want to make it clear that I am not a military man any more than you are, but I have been meeting with our Pentagon folks, and our national security people, as you have with ours and yours, and as you know and I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban.

And there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.

BIDEN: If you empower Bismillah to execute a strategy focused on key parts of the population centers, and I’m not a military guy, so I’m not telling you what that plan should precisely look like, you’re going to get not only more help, but you’re going to get a perception that is going to change in terms of how , um…[unclear].. our allies and folks here in the States and other places think you’re doing.

You clearly have the best military, you have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well, we will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is and what we are doing. And all the way through the end of August, and who knows what after that.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; california; failure; ghani; nancypelosi; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/31/2021 1:37:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is this satire?


2 posted on 08/31/2021 1:45:50 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not the first time Biden has lied to someone.

IOWs he promised air cover, but left instead


3 posted on 08/31/2021 1:45:58 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Yeah good point.


4 posted on 08/31/2021 1:48:22 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: ghost of nixon

No, the CYA leaks to Fake News have started.


5 posted on 08/31/2021 1:48:57 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: nikos1121

Bailing out on air cover was SABOTAGE.


6 posted on 08/31/2021 1:49:20 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: lodi90

Kamala? Or the military?


7 posted on 08/31/2021 1:53:15 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In other words:

Biden(whispering): "I'm throwing you, a few hundred Americans and a whole bunch if Afghans under the bus to die horrible deaths."

8 posted on 08/31/2021 2:06:02 PM PDT by Wizdum (Tyranny always ends badly for the tyrannical. Ask Ceaușescu, Gaddafi or Saddam.)
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To: struggle

Biden WH passing the buck. NSC most likley.


9 posted on 08/31/2021 2:06:58 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exerpts.

I imagine its much worse.


10 posted on 08/31/2021 2:17:18 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Second, what is crucial is, close air support, and if I could make a request, you have been very generous, if your assistance, particularly to our air force be front loaded, because what we need at this moment, there was a very heavily reliance on air power, and we have prioritized that if it could be at all front-loaded, we will greatly appreciate it.”

Against this request, Joe Sundowning closed Bagram and pulled US military out. He personally sabotaged Presiden Goner.


11 posted on 08/31/2021 2:18:04 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Note the Afghan leader speaks of the importance of air support, provided and/or assisted and/or overseen by Americans, and Biden does not deny that. Yet he had closed the source of that support - Bagram - even before the conversation took place.


12 posted on 08/31/2021 2:21:25 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Puppet Biden was undoubtedly reading from paper notes when he spoke with Ghani. The blithering idiot cannot even wipe his own ass. He himself told us so.


13 posted on 08/31/2021 2:24:09 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And this is the transcript after they scrubbed and buffed it. Lieden sounds like the bumbling idiot he is.


14 posted on 08/31/2021 2:39:34 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: ghost of nixon

That’s what I thought. It reads like satire.


15 posted on 08/31/2021 2:44:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (I won't get vaxxed because it endangers Mitt Romney's life. )
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To: FlyingEagle

Presiden Goner.

THAT made me laugh! Thanks.


16 posted on 08/31/2021 2:50:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: FlyingEagle

FWIW Bagram Air Base was abandoned on July 1st. This phone conversation took place on July 23rd.


17 posted on 08/31/2021 2:51:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (I won't get vaxxed because it endangers Mitt Romney's life. )
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Bidet’s reaction when told that Pakistan was a critical factor in the Taliban invasion.....

(crickets...)

Total clown!


18 posted on 08/31/2021 2:52:35 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“we will continue to provide close air support”

NOT


19 posted on 08/31/2021 2:58:56 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing can be attributed to Jiao Bidementia because in truth he doesn’t know what’s going on.
That’s the genius of it.


20 posted on 08/31/2021 3:11:13 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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