Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan

Top generals told lawmakers under oath on Tuesday that they advised President Joe Biden early this year to keep several thousand troops in Afghanistan — directly contradicting the president’s comments in August that no one warned him not to withdraw troops from the country.

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[miffedpup.]

"Joe Biden is the best President ever!" ~Haibatullah Akhumdzada, leader of the taliban

[salsagev]

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f-ck things up”—— Obama

[j.w.matney]

Just once, I would like to hear someone testifying before Congress give a straight answer to a question. Just once. If I had given these kind of measly answers to my boss, he would have been screaming "cut the bullshit, answer the question!"

[scottjenkins]

No more mean tweets tho, we got that going for us.

[GoUSA]

"We Love you Biden!! Best president ever!! Truly appreciate the Arsenal you left us!! 100% approval!!" Taliban

[MrDICKHEAD]

JOE: "BUILD BACK MONTHS MEANT THE TALIBAN"

[rickpontificates]

I’LL TRANSLATE….
“Top generals CONTRADICT BIDEN” means *BIDEN LIED….. YET AGAIN*

[keepinitreal]

the only achievement to come from the Afghan war was to make defense contractors and their stockholders rich

[joeyoliver]

Send the traitors to jail. Treason is the crime.

[stevenbear]

As a veteran, these guys are a fricken joke. If you can't stand up to your boss, resign and step down.

[TheJollycoppers]

He listened to them "very thoughtfully" and then did something extremely stupid and reckless. Americans are still stuck there.

[audiofunkdialect]

Well that’s why we were there for 20 years. When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. Not to mention a lot of these generals leave and get on the boards of weapons companies or become lobbyists.

[redbeard]

Does everyone here forget that we had signed a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban?

[mochiebellina]

We should never have entered Afganistan at all.

[Mike-lvvs]

In other words the generals would have kept us there another 20 years because they couldn't admit it was unwinnable.

[jeffs]

Should never have started these useless wars.

[vacrayton]

Gen. McKenzie opens with I won’t tell you what I recommended to the President, but I will tell you my PERSONAL OPINION…so we don’t know what McKenzie actually recommended, only his opinion…am I the only one that heard that?

[PeterB]

"I'm confident the president listened to all the recommendations and considered them carefully." Hahahahahah we all know what he's saying. Probably Biden was half asleep.

[seang]

All smoke and mirrors while the poisin the people

[davebrown]

Something fishy is going on. Your top generals tell you to keep a small presence and you decide something else...American soldiers die and you blame on that fact that we “had to leave”.
Is it ego? To say I ended the war in Afghanistan??