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Confirmed: Biden Killed 7 Children to Distract from His Afghanistan Debacle
After terrorists killed 13 Americans and 169 Afghans, the Biden administration needed a success to distract from his disastrous Kabul withdrawal. Three days later, the White House celebrated a drone strike.
“U.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport,” U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Bill Urban announced Aug. 29. “We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material,” he added.
Within hours, skepticism grew. Who was targeted? Did the Taliban provide the “intelligence?” Were civilians hurt?
On Sept. 1, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley scoffed at the doubters. He asserted the Pentagon “went through the same level of rigor that we’ve done for years” and “the procedures were correctly followed and it was a righteous strike.” It seems the drone strike enjoyed “the same level of rigor” as our slapdash withdrawal.
Today, two weeks later in a Friday afternoon news dump, the US military admitted it was all a lie.
The target was Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime US aid worker who spent the day transporting colleagues to and from work in his Toyota Corolla. When he was done, he filled his trunk with water bottles to take home to his family. As his car pulled into the courtyard of the densely populated residential block, his children ran to greet him. One of the happy kids jumped behind the wheel when Ahmadi got out.
That’s when a US drone launched a Hellfire missile at the car. The “secondary explosion” was likely a nearby propane tank.
In all, seven children were killed, 10 civilians total. None were ISIS-Khorasan operatives. None were even suspected terrorists. The military murdered our own allies then crowed about it. Thankfully, the New York Times rooted out the truth.
“We now know that there was no connection between Mr. Ahmadi and ISIS-Khorasan, that his activities on that day were completely harmless and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced, and that Mr. Ahmadi was just as innocent a victim as were the others tragically killed,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement Friday.
“In a dynamic high-threat environment, the commanders on the ground had appropriate authority and had reasonable certainty that the target was valid, but after deeper post-strike analysis, our conclusion is that innocent civilians were killed,” General Milley added. “This is a horrible tragedy of war and it’s heart-wrenching and we are committed to being fully transparent about this incident.”
Now the Biden administration can be “fully transparent,” 17 days after we fled Kabul and the news cycle moved on.
Who knows how many Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan. The Taliban is beheading our allies on the ground. France has withdrawn its ambassadors from Washington after Biden left them in the dark about a new south Pacific strategy. Haitians and thousands of other nationals are pouring through our southern border and the administration has banned media aerial cameras from exposing it. The White House has restricted needed monoclonal Covid treatments from Florida and Texas to punish red-state governors.
Biden’s response was to flee Washington for yet another three-day weekend in Delaware. I hope Rehoboth Beach has good ice cream.
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Who knows, it could all be part of a setup to push Biden out and Kamala in, just in time for her to serve the second half of his term and then – they dream – be elected twice.
I wonder how many terrorists will be created by this screwed up drone strike.
The reason is simple, their abject hatred of the military, and US war involvement, overrode their desire to protect Biden.
Muslims aren’t supposed to have puppies.
God, I miss William Safire.
That’s why I said “made-up puppy”.
Biden lied; children died.
General Xi Milley needed a commander like General “Fallguy” McKenzie to throw himself on a truth grenade to protect President Joe He Lie Bytewon. I think most who know anything, probably understood the rapid cycle between the killing of 13 American soldiers/Marines and the massive, “over the horizon” American counter-offensive was a wee bit quick and tepid. Drone missiles sent from afar are prone to mistakes.
The way this was hyped by Admiral of Rears, John Kirby; Jenny-from-the-block Psaki, Jake “The Rake” Sullivan, and the press as an eye-for-an-eye and “take that” kind of retribution was just too convenient. Those 7 children and one innocent adult died for headlines and to purchase distraction in the NY Times, WaPo, MSNBC, and CNN. It was a small price for “them” to pay to protect the President, and an impressive display of American fire power.
Military intelligence caught off-guard rarely identifies from where the next attack is coming. Here is a clue. Our allies the Taliban probably gave us the ‘heads-up’ to kill an Afghan who was working with a western aid group and his children. Now that is a clean sweep. 13 American service personnel dead and the Americans kill 7 children and one humanitarian aid worker in reprisal.
The Taliban had a good day. And Joe He Lie Byteone got tapioca pudding to celebrate.
And others like it. Oh, too late I guess…
In fact revenge was a huge motivator for the war in Afghanistan. Human, but not our best characteristic.
I’m sure there’s some unfortunate LTC in the CENTCOM Ops Center who will walk the plank for this.
No. To quote a GEICO commercial, “That’s not how any of this works.”
Most likely this was ordered by CENTCOM operations. Assuming the drone was not a CIA asset. (Whole nother kettle of fish.)
I suspect, the initial source for this intel was the Taliban.
I recommend you read this. He’s my go to Navy SMERT.
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2021/09/aukus-and-nuclear-roo.html
To The Editor-in-Chief, with the utmost of respect.
I vaguely recall this is exactly the outcome you called for. Well… you got it! Multitudinous kudos to you and your kindred spirits.
God Bless America!
The killing of the innocent children is one additional shame to an already long list of shames. This entire event is so overwhelmingly disgraceful, I can’t draw up a more shameful piece of fiction. I am literally embarrassed to be an American. I cannot believe the United States of America actually did all this. I can’t believe it.
And yet “pro-choice” Republicans don’t seem to think that’s much of an issue.
My sentiments exactly. We are losing our country. We are in a cold civil war with forces that want to destroy our Nation and we spend our precious moments talking about what some moron wore to a gala in Manhattan and whether the Duke and Duchess of somewhere are going to be interviewed at their 20 million dollar estate or at Oprah’s 83 million dollar estate. We are no longer a serious Nation and we’re acting like children being led by a doddering old fool. We have mortal enemies who are licking their chops and our “duly elected “ “President “ goes on vacation every few days so he can get more ice cream cones. We are living in a nightmare but most of our fellow citizens don’t know it or don’t want to face it.
God Help us.
Gonna vote Biden 2024, Gary? I luv ya, but you have zero credibility in matters Trump.
Except for lunch.