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Joe Biden is guilty of treason.

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Raheem,

There are very few things that you write, nor say, that I do not want to read, nor hear, this is one of them. But I commend you for trudging through this toxic excrement, for the sake of your readers.

Cheers.

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Big Picture: Biden realized he needed outta Afghanistan [real] fast ----cuz he wanted to pour all our money & arms into a war that better benefitted his own family. Nothing else --- American lives, prestige ---mattered.

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Raheem,

Thanks so much for plowing through all that tendentious bullshit, precisely so that I ‘wouldn’t have to.’

Had you not done so, I WOULD have had to. I have a lot of friends in that neck of the woods and significant emotional investment there.

For seven years in the 1980s and ‘90s, I lived in and reported from Afghanistan and the adjacent NWFP borderlands. For the last three of those years, I reported from Kabul during the pre-Taliban ‘civil war’ period (actually a Pakistan-sponsored proxy war to overthrow the mujahideen government that took over after the communist collapse).

In 1995 I returned Stateside, quit journalism in disgust, and embarked on a medical career. I worked ER for more than a decade, then returned to Afghanistan as a contractor in 2012. I did that on and off til 2020.

Safe at home, semiretired in July 2021, I realized we were in for a catastrophe when I read that we had abandoned Bagram airfield, in the dead of night, without even telling ‘allied’ Afghan troops we were leaving (probably for sound OPSEC reasons).

The Soviets had developed Bagram during their 1980s occupation. Its entire raison d’etre rests on its location, in the countryside an hour’s drive north of Kabul. The adjacent farm villages are small, easily patrolled and controlled. They impinge on the airfield complex’s margins only along parts of the southern and western perimeter. The entire eastern perimeter is vacant alluvial fan, overlooked by the 10,000’ Koh-i-Safi range. If you can keep insurgents with mortars, rocket artillery etc off the ridges overlooking the airfield - a minor tactical task that the well-equipped US military seemed to have little trouble with - well, that’s your strategic airbase, whence you organize all strategic operations, sensitive inputs and outputs: troop surges, special ops teams, and plane loads of ammo, freshly printed Afghan currency and the like.

The USSR and Afghanistan shared a land border, via the Uzbekistan SSR, so when the Soviets left in 1989, the ground troops and their equipment mostly withdrew overland. But I assure you everything else flew out of Bagram.

You don’t just abandon Bagram and try to run a staged withdrawal out of Kabul airport. Populous urban tenements crowd the entire length of the runway on both sides and the west end. Low walls ‘protect’ it, if and when there’s a functional state security apparatus.

To withdraw, you first get everything and everyone superfluous out of far-flung provincial bases to either Bagram or Kabul; then out of Kabul; then, at the very last minute, in the dead of night, out of Bagram.

During the withdrawal process, you also proactively smite TF out of insurgents interfering with your activities. It’s a matter of record that Trump was firmly committed to that. You don’t have to be a f***ing general to understand any of this.

Our leaders clearly are sociopaths, not just the politicians but also the generals.

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Biden said the buck stopped with him, but we all knew it was a lie. If you want go down a deep dark rabbit hole, check out all of the coverups of Pat Tillmans friendly fire death.

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Apr 7, 2023Liked by Raheem Kassam

Thanks for your summary of their malicious CYA report. I could never make it through all their bull 💩 to read even one full page. Kirby sounding like the usual tool, useless and incompetent as ever. Trying to blame Trump when they dismantled his plan is absurd. Those who watched this happen know who’s to blame. It’s all on Biden. He’s a royal Fk up.

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I feel for those service members families. To me and my family... there’s blood on Biden’s hands. And we won’t forget that.. neither will God. He cares more for the optics as usual.. so sick. Glad he’s old

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Biden = Treason

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Apr 7, 2023Liked by Raheem Kassam

I agree. Good analysis

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Apr 6, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023

Unbelievable! But not surprising with this traitor. Biden and his administration puts the blame our nation’s problems on everyone - except themselves!

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I watched Kirby talk about the withdrawal from Afghanistan tonight on LFS6B. He actually tried to get us to believe most all the armaments and vehicles and aircraft left belonged to the Afghan army. We only left behind a few billion $ worth of equipment like forklifts. To anyone who believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell. As far as I could see all those vehicles, planes, and helicopters were lined up in neat tight rows looking like they were ready for shipping. And, who leaves pallets of hundred dollar bills laying around? Thanks for reading the Biden Afghan Brainwash Report for us. Helps my blood pressure not to have had to.

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Never underestimate Joe’s ability to F things up.

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Biden's report reads like a sophomore's paper. Spreading blame like icing on a cake, adding rosettes of puffery...veering off topic, covering the topic in a Swiss cheese manner, oh, I must be hungry...

Biden played a game of chicken with the Taliban. Elementary, Ever-bungling Biden!

The "lessons learned" parts were cloying. (I guess that's what happens when you mix a little humility with a lot of arrogance.)

He missed the most important thing. His Foreign Policy is, has always been, utterly wrong.

This guy shouldn't be driving a car, let alone steering a country.

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Nothing this CCP-installed administration says is truthful. The Afghan report

is just the latest tissue of lies.

No one but brain-dead Biden supporters are fooled by the regime-approved propaganda...

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Thank you Raheem. How disgusting!

More info to remember:

"U.S. Marine Corps sniper was moved to tears as he recounted how his warnings about a potential suicide bomber were ignored by leaders just minutes before the deadly blast at Kabul airport during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan."

HE HAD HIM IN HIS SIGHTS AND WAS TOLD TO STAND DOWN!

https://www.cf.org/news/watch-marine-tears-up-recounting-how-his-suicide-bomber-warnings-were-ignored-minutes-before-kabul-blast/

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Thanks for your great work Raheem. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in 2014, that Joe Biden was wrong on every foreign policy for over 40 years. The Big Guy admitted in 1988, in his own words, that he's done dumb things and will continue to do dumb things. For hairy-legs Joe to try and blame President Trump for the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal is pathetic.

Next, he'll blame President Trump for his document scandal and China Town storage.

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