Cameron Arcand – The Western Journal Aug 30, 2021
United States citizens trying to escape Afghanistan have been blocked from getting into Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, Republican lawmakers charge, and they are placing the blame squarely on President Joe Biden and his State Department for doing enough to get Americans out.
Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson vented his anger and frustration in a Saturday Twitter post, enraged at an apparent lack of communication between the government and those who need to be rescued, with time running out on the Aug. 31 deadline for American forces to leave the country.
“I am furious!!” the lawmaker, Navy veteran and former White House physician wrote. “My team has been on the phone all day trying to get AMERICAN CITIZENS out. They have been just outside the airport numerous times, but the State Department WILL NOT help them.”
“They have been beaten by the Taliban at check points and told to leave and come back with large sums of money. Biden is going to get them killed! Enough!! We have put someone who gives a damn in charge RIGHT NOW!”
They have been beaten by the Taliban at check points and told to leave and come back with large sums of money. Biden is going to get them killed! Enough!! We have put someone who gives a damn in charge RIGHT NOW!
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 29, 2021
Shortly after, fellow Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a well known and vocal opponent of President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan strategy, confirmed Jackson’s claim.
“America, you need to know this: Biden is not letting US citizens through the airport gates. It has been impossible to get anyone through for the last 24 hours. This administration has been lying about their intent to save Americans. Unforgivable,” tweeted Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye fighting in Afghanistan.
America, you need to know this: Biden is not letting US citizens through the airport gates. It has been impossible to get anyone through for the last 24 hours.
This administration has been lying about their intent to save Americans. Unforgivable.
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 29, 2021
Their tweets contradict the Pentagon’s comments about who is being allowed entry into the airport, as Breitbart reported.
“Any U.S. passport holder that wants to get in can get in. And we are still, if I’m wrong here, I don’t think I’m wrong, we are still processing and getting on planes SIV applicant as well vulnerable Afghans,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said at a briefing Saturday.
“So they’re being allowed onto the airport?” a reporter asked.
“Yes, as far as I know, yes,” Kirby replied.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday that there are “roughly” 300 Americans still left in the country who are trying to flee Taliban control.
However, Sullivan also said there are Americans who have chosen not to leave.
“Maybe they’ve lived there for many years. Maybe they have extended family there,” he said.
He did not give a number on those cases.
With the Tuesday deadline still in effect, citizens and those with Special Immigration Visas are scrambling to leave Afghanistan or potentially face the wrath of the Taliban.
The stakes have escalated following the savage ISIS-K suicide bombing near the airport last week, killing at least 170 Afghans and 13 American soldiers, CNN reported.
There was even a “credible threat” to the airport this weekend, and U.S. citizens were asked by the State Department to “leave the area immediately.”
#Afghanistan: Due to a specific, credible threat, U.S. citizens near Kabul airport, including South gate, new Ministry of the Interior, and gate near Panjshir Petrol station, should leave the area immediately. Avoid traveling to the airport at this time. https://t.co/wU0jfVIdfZ pic.twitter.com/ghd9w7Cme2
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) August 29, 2021
Biden and his team are fully aware that the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan could have ended more peacefully, but instead let it turn into a chaotic bloodbath.
And he’s responsible for the consequences.
I’m still waiting for any of the people making a fuss about this to explain exactly who these ‘citizens’ are. What are they doing there? What have they been doing there all these years? They’re always painted as if they’re charlie brown and lucy running from the devil himself. I bet they’re really the devil’s henchmen.
Aw cry me a river. US citizens illegally occupied a country then cry when the tables are turned. Comedy gold.
America. Pfft! Can’t beat Afghan fruit farmers armed with AK’s and next up for their whupping are Russia and China.
The big image in the article suggests possible violence in Afghanistan, oddly, in the USA large groups of ordinary citizens can legally walk down the street in numerous states with similar types of powerful weapons dressed in black, I’ve seen the videos.
If militant Afghans, imported to the USA gain citizenship, watch these videos, they may have some fun and saunter down the streets in the USA with their weapons, is it legal? Probably. How will the gangs react in Chicago? Perhaps it’s time to get a sharp stick. Sigh.
Most of these so-called American citizens are ethnic Afghanis who have been living in style in their own country with a different citizenship. Now they want out. As far as I can see they made their own beds. Now they can sleep in them.
The US SEC of Defense Austin and the CJCS Milley are INCOMPETENT, and are perfect examples of the stunning decline in the leadership of the US military. Fools like Austin and Milley are only interested
in having a “woke” military of queers, lesbos, trannies and perverts. Americans MUST understand that if
the fairies of the US military actually go to war against the Russians, it will be “lights out” for the US military. Or, in other words, TANGO UNIFORM for the US military (that means +i++s up, or dead).
‘Viz Top tip’ !!
As Sid the sexist would say,
“Thurz far mow betta placez to gow than Afghanistan ya naw”.
Sid meant ‘fow ya ‘olidaz’
🙂
Biden will be ousted over this crisis.
He left Amerikans behind,
Amerikans do not care if you butcher brown people all day long but they really get pissed if you abandon them.
They (incorrectly) believe our cause was just, and they will view those left behind as treason.
Biden is toast.