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“Our military members and veterans deserve our best because that is what we give to America. The withdrawal [from Afghanistan] was a catastrophe in my opinion. And there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence…”
Biden should have been impeached on this alone.
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Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a ‘catastrophe’, Marine tells Congress: Sniper who lost arm and leg in suicide blast tearfully recalls how he was IGNORED when he spotted suspect, moments before hundreds of ball bearings ripped through his body
- Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a ‘catastrophe’, Marine tells Congress: Sniper who lost arm and leg in suicide blast tearfully recalls how he was IGNORED when he spotted suspect, moments before hundreds of ball bearings ripped through his body
- Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recounted the August 26, 2021 blast
- Told Congress he spotted a suspect who matched terrorist’s description
- He warned Marine leaders, but was told not to engage as Afghans fled
- Minutes later, he was caught in blast that killed 13 American service members
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com, 8 March 2023:
Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews was on a security detail in a Kabul tower, watching desperate Afghans trying to flee the brutal Taliban, when he was blindsided by an enormous wave of pressure.
It was August 26, 2021, and an ISIS-K suicide bomber had detonated on the perimeter of Hamid Karzai International Airport during the chaotic evacuation sparked by the Biden administration’s withdrawal of troops after 20 years in Afghanistan.
Just moments before the attack, the California veteran spotted a terrorist matching the suspect’s description and asked if he could ‘engage’, but he says his leaders refused.
Between 100 to 150 ball bearings ended up in Vargas-Andrews’ body in the explosion that killed 11 fellow Marines, two Navy corpsmen and hundreds of Afghan men, women and children. His right arm and right leg had to be amputated over the course of 43 surgeries that followed.
Vargas-Andrews broke down in tears on Wednesday as he recounted his harrowing ordeal in Congress, and criticized the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal that Republicans have called a ‘stunning failure of leadership’.
He detailed how military leaders ignored his warnings minutes earlier, and how those stationed at the airport were told not to engage – even though the Taliban were shooting people trying to get on a plane.
The withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion and there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence,’ he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
‘The 11 Marines, one sailor, and one solider who were murdered that day have not been answered for.’
His appearance was part of the Republican investigation into the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
He recalled ‘surreal’ scenes at the airport, with Afghans trying to kill themselves on the razor wire rather than face Taliban ‘torture’.
He described how there was intelligence that an attack could be imminent, but they could only stand by.
‘Over the communication network, we passed that there was a potential threat and that there was an IED attack imminent – this was as serious as it could get.
‘I requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready on the M110 semi-automatic sniper system,’ he added.
‘The response, leadership did not have engagement authority for us, do not engage,’ he said.
Vargas-Andrews and the Marines with him also asked a battalion commander to come to the tower to look at the suspect.
They asked for the authority to shoot, but it wasn’t given.
‘Plain and simple, we were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded, no one was held accountable for our safety,’ he told the committee.
His sniper squad was then hit with the suicide blast.
‘I’m thrown 12 feet onto the ground but instantly knew what happened. I opened my eyes to Marines dead or unconscious and lying around,’ Vargas-Andrews said through tears, describing the events of that day.
‘A crowd of hundreds immediately vanished in front of me and my body was catastrophically wounded with 100 to 150 ball bearings now in it.’
Even after his catastrophic injuries, Vargas-Andrews claimed no one asked him for a report.
He also says that no one in the Pentagon or the White House has taken accountability for the missteps.
The US Marine Corps posted a photo to Twitter of the flag-draped caskets of their fallen brethren killed in the suicide bomb attack in Kabul, after the coffins arrived back on home soil on August 29, 2021
Thirteen American service members died when the suicide bomber detonated explosives packed with ball bearings amid the chaos of the city’s airport
His story followed an opening statement by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, criticizing the Biden administration for withdrawing troops against the advice of generals and the intelligence community.
‘What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of the federal government at every level, and a stunning failure of leadership by the Biden administration,’ said McCaul in his searing opening statement.
Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a ‘catastrophe’, Marine tells Congress: Sniper who lost arm and leg in suicide blast tearfully recalls how he was IGNORED when he spotted suspect, moments before hundreds of ball bearings ripped through his body
Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recounted the August 26, 2021 blast
Told Congress he spotted a suspect who matched terrorist’s description
He warned Marine leaders, but was told not to engage as Afghans fled
Minutes later, he was caught in blast that killed 13 American service membersBy Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:32 EST, 8 March 2023 | Updated: 18:41 EST, 8 March 2023
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Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews was on a security detail in a Kabul tower, watching desperate Afghans trying to flee the brutal Taliban, when he was blindsided by an enormous wave of pressure.
It was August 26, 2021, and an ISIS-K suicide bomber had detonated on the perimeter of Hamid Karzai International Airport during the chaotic evacuation sparked by the Biden administration’s withdrawal of troops after 20 years in Afghanistan.
Just moments before the attack, the California veteran spotted a terrorist matching the suspect’s description and asked if he could ‘engage’, but he says his leaders refused.
Between 100 to 150 ball bearings ended up in Vargas-Andrews’ body in the explosion that killed 11 fellow Marines, two Navy corpsmen and hundreds of Afghan men, women and children. His right arm and right leg had to be amputated over the course of 43 surgeries that followed.
Vargas-Andrews broke down in tears on Wednesday as he recounted his harrowing ordeal in Congress, and criticized the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal that Republicans have called a ‘stunning failure of leadership’.
He detailed how military leaders ignored his warnings minutes earlier, and how those stationed at the airport were told not to engage – even though the Taliban were shooting people trying to get on a plane.
Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews broke down in tears on Wednesday as he recounted his harrowing ordeal in Congress, and criticized the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal that Republicans have called a ‘stunning failure of leadership’Marine sniper Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews broke down in tears on Wednesday as he recounted his harrowing ordeal in Congress, and criticized the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal that Republicans have called a ‘stunning failure of leadership’
Between 100 to 150 ball bearings ended up in Vargas-Andrews’ body in the explosion that killed 11 fellow Marines, two Navy corpsmen and hundreds of Afghan men women and childrenBetween 100 to 150 ball bearings ended up in Vargas-Andrews’ body in the explosion that killed 11 fellow Marines, two Navy corpsmen and hundreds of Afghan men women and children
His right arm and right leg were amputated over the course of 43 surgeries that followed the attackHis right arm and right leg were amputated over the course of 43 surgeries that followed the attack
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‘The 11 Marines, one sailor, and one solider who were murdered that day have not been answered for.’
The roll call of the dead in Kabul airport attack during U.S. withdrawal from AfghanistanThe suicide attack on August 26, 2021, made use of the crowds and chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
It targeted a gate manned by U.S. Marines, who were tasked with trying to ensure that people with correct papers were able to advance to the next stage of processing.
Along with at least 170 Afghans, the following Americans died:
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover;
Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosario;
Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee;
Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez;
Marine Corps Cpl. Daegan W. Page;
Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez;
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza;
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz;
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum;
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola;
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui;
Navy Petty Officer Third Class Maxton W. Soviak;
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss
His appearance was part of the Republican investigation into the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
He recalled ‘surreal’ scenes at the airport, with Afghans trying to kill themselves on the razor wire rather than face Taliban ‘torture’.
He described how there was intelligence that an attack could be imminent, but they could only stand by.
‘Over the communication network, we passed that there was a potential threat and that there was an IED attack imminent – this was as serious as it could get.
‘I requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready on the M110 semi-automatic sniper system,’ he added.
‘The response, leadership did not have engagement authority for us, do not engage,’ he said.
Vargas-Andrews and the Marines with him also asked a battalion commander to come to the tower to look at the suspect.
They asked for the authority to shoot, but it wasn’t given.
‘Plain and simple, we were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded, no one was held accountable for our safety,’ he told the committee.
His sniper squad was then hit with the suicide blast.
‘I’m thrown 12 feet onto the ground but instantly knew what happened. I opened my eyes to Marines dead or unconscious and lying around,’ Vargas-Andrews said through tears, describing the events of that day.
‘A crowd of hundreds immediately vanished in front of me and my body was catastrophically wounded with 100 to 150 ball bearings now in it.’
Even after his catastrophic injuries, Vargas-Andrews claimed no one asked him for a report.
He also says that no one in the Pentagon or the White House has taken accountability for the missteps.
The US Marine Corps posted a photo to Twitter of the flag-draped caskets of their fallen brethren killed in the suicide bomb attack in Kabul, after the coffins arrived back on home soil on August 29, 2021The US Marine Corps posted a photo to Twitter of the flag-draped caskets of their fallen brethren killed in the suicide bomb attack in Kabul, after the coffins arrived back on home soil on August 29, 2021
Thirteen American service members died when the suicide bomber detonated explosives packed with ball bearings amid the chaos of the city’s airportThirteen American service members died when the suicide bomber detonated explosives packed with ball bearings amid the chaos of the city’s airport
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‘What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of the federal government at every level, and a stunning failure of leadership by the Biden administration,’ said McCaul in his searing opening statement.
‘The president promised, “There is going to be no circumstances where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy like in Vietnam.” Yet they were.
‘Multiple people in the Biden administration said they’d plan for every contingency. They did not. Instead, they spent the next four months ignoring the realities.
‘As a result, when the Taliban rapidly captured territory during the summer of 2021 and entered Kabul on August 15 – we simply weren’t ready.
‘Because of the Biden administration’s dereliction of duty, the world watched heartbreaking scenes unfold in and around the Kabul airport for the next two weeks.
‘A sea of humanity, desperately trying to make it through airport gates that represented freedom.
‘We all saw the images of desperate Afghans clinging to planes as they took off – with some plummeting from the sky to their deaths.
‘Mothers handing their children to strangers over the airport walls – willingly giving them up in the hopes of saving their lives.
‘And then, horror struck on August 26.
‘A suicide bomber at Abbey Gate killed 13 American servicemembers, injuring at least 45 more, and killing approximately 170 Afghans.
‘That day was the deadliest day for American troops in Afghanistan in 10 years.’
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1 year ago
That treasonous US “President” Joe Biden, has aided and new continues to support that murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan and even let the America and American people hating Taliban have new high quality US military equipment.
Likewise, Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers, who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden also has betrayed many Americans and the good Afghans who really aided the US military in the land by abandoning them all to the vicious and murderous Taliban.
Furthermore, Biden really does not care about those thirteen Americans who died or the other American who died in Afghanistan because of either his incompetence or treasonous orders.
Therefore , Joe Biden is very, obviously is ether completely incompetent and despicably treasonous. In the first or second case Biden should not have been allowed be enter the Office of the Presidency in the first place.
As that catastrophe, he created in Afghanistan and letting the Talban obtain may high quality US military equipment.
As the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that the Office of the Presidency in not only a powerful position but “a very strong man” is needed for the Oval Office. Joe Biden is not a strong man but as already stated is weak and feeble.
Roosevelt also, rightly, believed “a man holding that very important Office “should be sharply watch by the people [and] held to a strict accountability by them.”
1 year ago
The catastrophe that Joe Biden created in Afghanistan, it’s worse than terrible.
Just think of all those Americans and out good Afghans friends he abandoned in Afghanistan to be encountered captured tortured and murdered by the bloodthirsty Taliban.
To make matters even worse Biden admitted many unchecked and unvetted “refugees” into and throughout the United States , a number of them , not doubt are criminal and secret jihadists scheming and waiting for the time they consider to engage in murderous violence.
The innocent people who will be murdered by them will guilty and likewise Biden will also then have their blood on his sinister wicked and destructive hands.
All that evil in Afghanistan would never have happened if that President Pretender, Joe Biden just threw away and totally destroyed nearly twenty years of progress accomplished by the blood sweat and tears and even the deaths of many Americans as well as those blood, sweat and tears of America’s allies.
Also Biden threw away more than trillion of the American taxpayer’s money that was invested in for the betterment and development of Afghanistan.
This tragic scenario didn’t actually have to had happen in Afghanistan because the generals of the Pentagon who are strategic military advisers to the President strongly counseled Biden not to have a sharp, sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan but instead have and start a gradual drawback of the US armed forces after September 11, 2021.
The problem was that the arrogant conceited and stupid Joe Biden refused to heed or listen to the wise council of the intellects of the Pentagon. Therefore is this complete catastrophe with the Taliban total takeover of Afghanistan.
In the ancient but wisdom filled book by Sun Tzu entitled THE ART OF WAR, it is written “He will win who has the military capability and is not interfered with the sovereign.”
That awful incompetent and probably even treasonous villain, Joe Biden, ruined everything.
1 year ago
Just to think about it, After all the Americans who died and the many others who had been terrible wounded and over a trillion dollars of wasted American taxpayers money invested in that awful mayhem is also awful.
Another horrible consequence of Biden’s treachery in Afghanistan are all those unvetted Afghan /Muslims now spreading across the United States. If any Americans, in any way are harmed by some those unvetted Afghan “refugees” who might be either criminals or violent jihadists then Biden will have their innocent blood on his wicked hands.
Since the end of August and because of that despicable villain Joe Biden, has betrayed and abandoned many Americans and left them to in Afghanistan to be brutally murdered by the Taliban.
1 year ago
The Taliban victory is the outcome of horrible man, the calamities of Joe Biden in Office seems to have no end or limit
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That fiendish man, Biden , created the catastrophe of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and simultaneously inspires more zeal in Islamic terrors organizations around the world.
1 year ago
That horrible treacherous Joe Biden must really likes America’s enemy, the Taliban, since he gave away Afghanistan to them. Biden truly is a villainous traitor of the most horrendous sort.
On the night Television program Sean Hannity 8/17/21 on Fox News ,the former United States President Donald Trump was interviewed by Hannity and Mr. Trump had spoken about this Biden withdraw from Afghanistan and Trump ,truthfully declared that “Nobody had ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden.”
He further stated that “This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of this country” and Trump then mentioned how the other countries are watching all this and that “China is laughing at us.” because “China does not respect us anymore.”
It’s all very obvious that this awful lack of respect of all the fault of that terrible man , Joe Biden.
Donald Trump had also well said “What is now happening in Afghanistan is unbelievable”
1 year ago
If it wasn’t for Joe Biden who created that total catastrophe in Afghanistan there wouldn’t be a problem of Afghan refugees in the first place.
Furthermore, that Biden scheme to settle all those Afghan refugees in the different States in American is a recipe for disaster.
Take England for example , The United Kingdom has already experienced many vicious and malice-filled murderous Muslims terrorists attacks ,as those ,for example, those different malicious and deadly jihadists attacks in London and that horrendous mass murder jihad homicide bombing in the city of Manchester in which so many innocent young girls died.
Another way to illustrate the folly of foolish and reckless kindness is by the fable of Aesop which of a kind old farmer who saw outside a poor helpless viper that was freezing to death in the winter cold. The compassionate but foolish farmer felt sorry for that creature so he went outside and put it in his vest pocket to warm it up and therefore save its live. The viper revived in the warmed of vest ,felt better then bit the farmer through the vest and the kind but foolish farmer died a slow and painful death from that viper’s bite.
So it might be in America by Afghan jihadists playing the part of a desperate “refugee” from Afghanistan who claimed that he was just fleeing the Taliban. For no amount of caring and kindness will change the murderous and destructive nature of a violent /jihadist/Muslim because such a man has been infected with an evil and deadly nature because of the evil and deadly religion.
The duty of any genuine President of the United States is to protect the safety, security and lives of the American citizen.
That duty President impostor Joe Biden completely refuses to preform, for by allowing all those unvetted Afghan/Muslims into America is a recipe for disaster.
For some of them might be secret jihadists just waiting and scheming for a specific US city or large town to engage in a murderous and destructive jihad Islamic terror attack in.
Some of the other Afghan refugees might be criminals. In both cases, Biden will have the blood of many innocent Americans on his wicked hands.
D
1 year ago
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews is a hero and a survivor.
Joe Biden is a treasonous traitor and a first class piece of sh!t.
1 year ago
CCP owned bidet murdered all these American Soldiers, and many more who were left behind in Afghanistan in his pathetic pullout. Many of the weapons left in Afghanistan ended up in Mexico.
1 year ago
Reply to
Snowedin
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger I’ve lost a lot of coworkers and friends from Vietnam to Afghanistan. To read Kissinger’s statement makes my stomach turn and my blood boil. It is as Arlo tells it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDAl7lGGtSo
D
1 year ago
If we had Hung “at this point what difference does it make” Hillary Benghazi Clinton…we cud have nipped this in the bud…At least we know it does make a difference when U tolerate treason…
D
1 year ago
pRESIDENT BIDEN, HANDLERS and “higherups” who REFUSED the protectors to do their JOB, MUST be held accountable for each MURDERED Person!!
D
1 year ago
QUESTION: What has happened to the CHILDREN’S GROUP who went to Afghanistan and were CAUGHT in this TRAITOROUS action by pRESIDENT BIDEN????
1 year ago
When Trump made the deal with the Tali Boys in Kabul he told them that if ONE American is killed from the moment we sign this deal and the day we leave then I will bomb your family home with your family inside it, and then he showed the Tali Leader a photo of the house.
13 died and Old Joe was looking at his watch as their bodies came off the plane.
Trump was Impeached for a LEGAL phone call and Old Joe is still in the Oval Office today.
What am I missing here?.
1 year ago
Nasty Peelosi said that Biden is ”Doing a spectacular job as President”.. He sure is doing a spectacular job of screwing everything up but then this is what happens when Old Nasty P. is drinking Vodka for Breakfast.
