People involved in extraditing Americans from Afghanistan after the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal connected Vice President Kamala Harris’s role with the outcome.
Chad Robichaux, author and former Force Recon Marine, led an effort to extract over 17,000 people from Afghanistan following the country’s falling to Taliban rule, according to his website. Referring to Harris’s claim that she was the “last person in the room” with President Joe Biden before he ordered the withdrawal, Robichaux said she was an integral player in the ensuing disaster.
“Kamala can’t detach herself from the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal,” he said. “She was the vice president, the last person in the room with the president during decision time, and she has had three years … including the last weeks of her candidacy to speak up. “
“If she wasn’t responsible as Vice President then speak up, apologize to the families of our 13, apologize to our Afghanistan veterans, intervene on behalf of our abandoned allies and the 20 million woman and little girls left sexually enslaved,” he continued. “She won’t … because she was complicit and has blood on her hands.”
Benghazi contractor Mark Geist, who rescued over 100 Americans from Afghanistan, said the results of the withdrawal fall squarely on Harris, alongside Biden.
“The botched Afghan withdrawal isn’t a failure that can be overlooked or forgotten it’s a stain on American history. I personally had to step in and help rescue over 100 Americans, an effort that should have been managed by our government, not left to private citizens,” he said.
“The withdrawal, which led to the abandonment of thousands of Americans and our allies and the loss of 13 lives at Abbey Gate, doesn’t just fall on Biden, it falls on Harris too, regardless of when she walked into the room,” Geist continued. “Her involvement in these decisions shows a clear pattern of poor judgment and failed leadership, putting both our country and our military at risk.”
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), himself a veteran, also pinned the blame for the withdrawal on Harris.
“Kamala Harris is trying to distance herself from Joe Biden’s biggest failure as president, the botched Afghan pullout, by saying she was the last one in the room,” he said. “But she has just as much blood on her hands as Biden.”
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“With no proven strength on the world stage and a failed record at the border, there’s no reason to believe she’d be any better at keeping America or our servicemen safe,” Mills continued. “From Afghanistan to Israel and Haiti, this administration has a clear pattern of abandonment. We need leadership in DC, not more failures like we’ve seen under Harris.”
A recent Washington Post report found that though Harris asked some probing questions, she failed to act in any meaningful way to change the course of the Afghanistan withdrawal plan.
