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 The Taliban is using our helicopters to hang people.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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 Fact-checks from USA Today, CNET, and Reuters have all debunked this.
 
 It does demonstrate how quickly the new-right media can take 12 seconds of fuzzy video, fabricate a convenient lie, and go from zero to viral in a matter of hours. It's an efficient way to spread misinformation, but it's still a damned lie.In the longer video, the man waves his hands and moves his legs as he is lowered to the top of a building. A closer look at the footage shows the man appears to be strapped into a harness, not hanging from a noose.
 
 Alt News, an independent fact-checking organization in India, reported the man is a Taliban fighter. According to multiple Afghan news outlets with reporters on the ground, he was trying to hoist a flag on the governor's office in Kandahar.
 
 The fact that you still blindly spread this bull**** makes the content of everything you post suspect.
 
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 The fact that you are saying that saying that the Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter is spreading bull**** says a lot about you. And now you are trying to shame me? You're a joke.Last edited by Kidlicious; September 1, 2021, 11:56.
 
 
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 For 20 years, every POTUS elected has campaigned on getting out of Afghanistan. The fact that politicians as radically different as W, Obama, Trump, and Biden can agree on it shows that this is the will of the American people. But retreating from Cheney's unwinnable land war in Afghanistan carries a huge political cost, and no president has had the political will to pay it.
 
 To quote US Navy veteran Jim Wright:
 Finally, we get a President with the stones to pull the plug, and predictably, all we get from the GOP is finger-pointing and blame.Republicans always want a democrat to get them out of a war they started -- the same way they always want democrats to fix an economy they crashed.
 It's faster, cheaper, shifts all the blame and eliminates any consequences for those who were actually responsible.
 Did the exit go poorly? Yes. But did it get done? Yes.
 
 About damn time.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
 RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms
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 Yep.. Trump promised to get us out of Afghanistan and failed to deliver...
 He made a crappy deal which anybody with a brain knew that they wouldn't follow the terms, and then was just all talk and no action.
 At least Biden had the balls to actually go through with it.
 Yeah, it wasn't handled very well, but it got done. Unlike all the others that said they would do it and never did.Keep on Civin'
 RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O
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 It's to be expected that you fell for the alt right propaganda...Originally posted by Kidicious View PostThe Taliban is using our helicopters to hang people.
 If a Democrat actually gets people killed you say he did a good job. If the Chinese Communists kill people you blame a Republican. Unbelievable. Have just a little bit of shame.
 
 And I never said he did a good job... but at least he did it. Unlike Trump who only promised and then wimped out.
 And talk about shame... blaming the communists for Trump ignoring the problem and letting American die...
 Get a life...
 Keep on Civin'
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 It's the **** up of the century sir. Biden is corrupt he lied about believing that the Afghan military could hold them off.Originally posted by Ming View Post
 It's to be expected that you fell for the alt right propaganda...
 
 And I never said he did a good job... but at least he did it. Unlike Trump who only promised and then wimped out.
 And talk about shame... blaming the communists for Trump ignoring the problem and letting American die...
 Get a life...I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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 Exclusive-In call before Afghan collapse, Biden pressed Ghani to ‘change perception’
 
 U.S. President Biden meets with Afghan President Ghani - Joe Biden
- Ashraf Ghani
 
 Aram Roston and Nandita Bose
 Tue, August 31, 2021, 1:55 PM·6 min read
 In this article:- Joe Biden
 46th and current president of the United States
- Ashraf Ghani
 Former President of Afghanistan
 
 By Aram Roston and Nandita Bose
 
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the last call between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Afghanistan counterpart before the Taliban seized control of the country, the leaders discussed military aid, political strategy and messaging tactics, but neither Biden nor Ashraf Ghani appeared aware of or prepared for the immediate danger of the entire country falling to insurgents, a transcript reviewed by Reuters shows.
 
 The men spoke for roughly 14 minutes on July 23. On August 15, Ghani fled the presidential palace, and the Taliban entered Kabul. Since then, tens of thousands of desperate Afghans have fled and 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport during the frenetic U.S. military evacuation.
 
 Reuters reviewed a transcript of the presidential phone call and has listened to the audio to authenticate the conversation. The materials were provided on condition of anonymity by a source who was not authorized to distribute it.
 
 In the call, Biden offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling situation in Afghanistan. “We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is,” Biden said. Days before the call, the U.S. carried out air strikes to support Afghan security forces, a move the Taliban said was in violation of the Doha peace agreement.
 
 The U.S. president also advised Ghani to get buy-in from powerful Afghans for a military strategy going forward, and then to put a “warrior” in charge of the effort, a reference to Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.
 
 Biden lauded the Afghan armed forces, which were trained and funded by the U.S. government. “You clearly have the best military,” he told Ghani. “You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly...I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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 The **** up of the century was how Trump handled (or didn't) Covid. Now that was a true disaster... he caused far more pain, suffering and death. And much of it could have been avoided if he had cared more about American lives than his re-election.Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
 It's the **** up of the century sir. Biden is corrupt he lied about believing that the Afghan military could hold them off.
 And Trump was the most lying president in modern history and is still telling more lies.
 
 And you still haven't answered whether you are like the other brain dead cult followers who still think he won the election... A lie Trump and the alt right propaganda machine continue to tell over and over again.Keep on Civin'
 RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O
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