Wasn’t Kamala Harris the last person in the room?

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/politics/democratic-reaction-biden-afghanistan/index.html

Wasn’t Kamala Harris the last person in the room? She was ok with the rapid and chaotic withdraw? Did she say anything when she knew Biden would not be able to keep his promise of “getting everyone out”? It’s sad to think that maybe 183 people lost their lives because of the mental decline of a US president.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill are grappling with the political fallout in Washington of a crisis they warned the Biden administration months ago could become a fiasco on the world stage, as horrific images pour out of Kabul with residents desperately trying to flee.

Members of his party in Congress nearly all backed Biden when he announced plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan in April, but many Democrats have been infuriated by the administration's slow response to evacuating Afghans who worked alongside the US military and are now at risk. The images of a hasty withdrawal of Americans and the chaos at the Kabul airport are conflicting with the administration's claims that they were carrying out an orderly withdrawal.

Still, Biden has not deviated from his position, saying in a speech on Monday that "I stand squarely behind my decision."

Some of the White House talking points, obtained by CNN, also strongly conflicted with the reality on the ground, such as the suggestion that "many Afghans to whom we gave visas to come to the US chose to stay in their country, still hopeful." Biden repeated the line in his speech, even though many Afghans have been waiting years for visas to be approved.

At least one top Democrat on Monday called for an investigation into why the Biden administration was unprepared for the events that unfolded on the ground in Afghanistan.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said in a statement. "We owe those answers to the American people and to all those who served and sacrificed so much."

At this point, Democrats on Capitol Hill are scrambling to help coordinate the rescue of Afghan interpreters and others who have assisted US forces over the last two decades.

Since Biden announced the US would leave Afghanistan by September 11, Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran, has been raising the alarm and making the case that the Biden administration needed to act quickly to extract US allies from Afghanistan. In June, a group of 21 lawmakers called on Biden to expedite the visa process in order to ensure the US' Afghan allies could be evacuated safely.

In the months following Biden's announcement, Moulton helped create a plan for how to evacuate US allies and their families from Afghanistan, but told CNN when he tried to share it with the White House he was met with "silence."

The first group of translators and interpreters who helped US soldiers in Afghanistan arrived in the US in late July, traveling to Fort Lee, Virginia. But as the Taliban rapidly took control of the country, the US has evacuated just a fraction of the estimated 20,000 Special Immigrant Visa applicants still in line.

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