Two of the nation’s top military commanders, and the top Pentagon official, affirmed on Capitol Hill today that President Biden was advised to leave at least 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from overrunning the Afghan army — directly contradicting what Biden told ABC News in an interview after the pullout.
The Biden Clown Show was on full display during Congressional hearings today with disgraced woke general Mark Milley fielding questions about the complete and total failure of the United States to safely and successfully withdraw from Afghanistan. Woke Gen. Milley had no problem throwing Biden under the proverbial bus, always fun watching the disloyal Democrats eat their own.
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." Proverbs 29:2 (KJB)
A hallmark of the Biden Clown show is "lie, lie lie, deny, deny, deny, deflect, deflect, deflect", rivaling only the Clinton Crime Family in their ability to never be responsible for their own disastrous policies both foreign and domestic. But the damage that Biden is doing to America is intentional, the whole point to all of it is to pull this country down and destroy it.
Gen. Milley says Biden ignored request to keep some troops in Afghanistan, contradicting earlier Biden claim
FROM BREITBART NEWS: During their testimony, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Frank McKenzie were pressed on Biden’s decision to fully withdraw, and specifically asked if they recommended the president leave any troops in Afghanistan following Aug. 31.
“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation. And I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan,” said McKenzie, who as head of Central Command oversaw the final months of the U.S. war.
Milley, 63, later agreed with that assessment. The revelation comes one month after Biden denied any military advisors wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “No one said that to me that I can recall.”
In his testimony, Milley revealed that he originally believed an accelerated withdrawal would risk “losing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan,” would damage US credibility and “precipitate a general collapse [of] the NSF and the Afghan government, resulting in a complete Taliban takeover, or general civil war.”
“I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces, and eventually the Afghan government,” Milley added.
Earlier, Sen. Tom Cotton pressed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, asking whether Biden’s claim that no military leaders recommended leaving a US troop presence was true or not. While Austin called Biden an “honest and forthright man,” he did admit Milley and McKenzie’s advice were “received by the present and considered by the president.”
“In terms of what they specifically recommended, Senator, just as they just said, they’re not going to provide what they recommended in confidence.”
The hearing included questions over the predicted suicide bombing at Kabul airport that killed 13 US service members and 169 Afghans — an event that has been widely criticized as avoidable and a result to unforced errors by top military brass. Milley, during his opening remarks, acknowledged the 13 soldiers who died and “gave their lives [so] people they never met, have an opportunity to live in freedom.”
“We must remember that the Taliban was and remains a terrorist organization, and they still have not broken ties with al Qaeda,” he added.
Milley later confirmed that he believes the US is still at war with al Qaeda and that the terrorist organization has aspirations to “reconstitute” and “strike.” In his testimony, Milley revealed that he originally believed an accelerated withdrawal would risk “losing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan,” would damage US credibility and “precipitate a general collapse [of] the NSF and the Afghan government, resulting in a complete Taliban takeover, or general civil war.”
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