Democratic rep doesn't buy Biden's excuse for disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal plan: 'There must have been intelligence'



Democratic Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania said she didn't buy the excuse that President Joe Biden had made to explain the disastrous fall of the Afghanistan government to the Taliban.

Wild made the comments to Erin Burnett on her CNN show Friday.

"I want to tell you that I 100% agree with the President's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. It was a brave and necessary decision that no president in the last ten years was willing to make and I'm not piling on with gratuitous criticism," she began.

"But I have tremendous concerns about the manner in which the withdrawal took place. We know that we needed to get these Afghan allies that worked so closely with our troops out of the country, and that the SIV process had completely shut down under the Trump administration. That's one of those cascading failures," Wild said.

"We know that thousands of Taliban prisoners had been released following the U.S.-Taliban agreement negotiated by Secretary of State Pompeo, over the objections of the Afghan president Ghani. That's another one of the cascading failures," she continued.

"So while I support President Biden's decision to carry out the retrograde from Afghanistan, here's what I think we needed to do before that happened. We had to get the SIV process rebooted and running efficiently," said Wild.

"And frankly, we should have started the withdrawal process earlier, months ago, which would have given us the ability and time to get more people out without antagonizing the Taliban because they would have known that we were on our way out!" she continued.

Wild went on to contradict Biden on whether there was any intelligence indicating how fast the Afghanistan government would collapse before the Taliban once the U.S. began withdrawing from the country.

"Lastly, I think there must have been intelligence," she said.

"I don't buy that the president had bad intelligence, quite frankly, based on everything I've heard from my colleagues on the intel committee. I believe there was intelligence that foretold that the Afghan government and military would quickly fold once we left," she added.

"I suspect that that intelligence was available far longer than the past eight months," Wild concluded. "So, that, the cascading failures are not just attributable to the Biden administration, I want to make that clear."

Wild also promised that Congress would get to the bottom of the disaster in order to avoid similar chaos from erupting again in the future.

Here's the video of Wild's comments:

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Bill O’Reilly: Here's the ONE piece of 'GOOD NEWS' from Biden’s Afghanistan disaster



President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan has been criticized from both sides of the political aisle as an utter disaster. But Bill O'Reilly joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Friday to share the one piece of "good news" that he believes has come from this failure: "Biden's DONE."

"There is good news in this story," O'Reilly stated. "The good news is Biden's done. All right, even though he's going to be there physically, in the White House, he's finished. His credibility is shot. He's not coming back. He doesn't have the energy to come back, or the creativity to come back, or the vision to come back," he added.

"From the beginning of this incredible screwup in Afghanistan, the administration under Joe Biden has not done one thing that has worked. Keep that in mind. Nothing has worked. Because they didn't plan it. There wasn't anybody in charge who really knew the country. And so, when you have that level of incompetence, you're going to go down. Now, every American knows that. And the ones that do play slight attention, know the [southern] border is a catastrophe. They know the woke culture is a catastrophe. They know the progressive left, the socialists, are a catastrophe. And you add it up, and what has the man done well?"

Bill and Glenn went on to discuss the absurdity of President Biden's threat to hunt down the ISIS-K terrorists following the attacks that killed and wounded U.S. service members and Afghan civilians in Kabul on Thursday.

Watch the video clip below to catch more of the conversation:



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President Biden gets into heated exchange with Fox News reporter during media briefing on deadly terror attack in Kabul



President Joe Biden appeared to get flustered as Peter Doocy of Fox News challenged him to take responsibility for the debacle in Afghanistan that has now cost the lives of 12 U.S. service members.

Biden had a moment of silence during the briefing Thursday for the service members killed in the attack and he promised to have a military response against those who were responsible.

After the briefing, Doocy asked Biden if he took full responsibility for the events leading to the attack.

"Mr. President, there had not been a U.S. service member killed in combat in Afghanistan since February of 2020. You set a deadline, you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in, and now 12 Marines are dead," said Doocy.

"You said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way things have unfolded in the last two weeks?" Doocy asked.

"I bear responsibility fundamentally for all that has happened of late," Biden replied.

"But here's the deal. You know, I wish you someday would say these things, you know as well as I do, that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May 1," he continued.

"In return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others but would not attack any American forces. Do you remember that? I'm being serious. I'm asking you a question," he added, interrupting Doocy.

The president laid his head on his hands in frustration at Doocy during their crosstalk.

Biden also stood by his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan after Doocy pressed him on the issue.

"Yes I do, because look at it this way folks," Biden replied.

"Imagine where we'd be if I had indicated on May the 1st I was not going to renegotiate an evacuation date. We were gonna stay there. I'd have only one alternative: Pour thousands of more troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won relative to why the reason we went in the first place," he explained.

"I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a Democratic government in Afghanistan," Biden continued, "a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country, and is made up, and I don't mean this in a derogatory, made up of different tribes who have never ever ever gotten along with one another."

Biden ended the briefing at that point and cited other meetings he needed to attend.

Here's the video of the exchange between Doocy and Biden:

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