‘A Total F****** Disaster’: Democrat Congressman Rips Biden’s Botched Withdrawal After Secret Trip To Afghanistan
Even Joe Biden’s own party members are seeing through the charade.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), an Iraq War veteran and progressive, slammed Joe Biden’s failure to plan an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
After his secret trip to the troubled region, Moulton saw the disaster for himself. He has since refused to apologize to party leaders who criticized him, including Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi. Moulton said what he saw on the ground was devastating. In 120-degree temperatures, evacuees were confined in hangars, attempting to find shade wherever they could.
Moulton did not hold back his rage during an interview with New York Magazine.
“‘The thing that everybody needs to understand, even if you completely agree with the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw, the way they have handled this has been a total f****** disaster,” Moulton said. He warned that quantitative analysis of Biden’s failure will be “measured in bodies, because a lot of people are dying because they can’t get out.”
“As crazy as this sounds, we need a positive relationship with the Taliban to have any hope of getting out the thousands of people we’ll leave behind down the road,” Moulton added, part of his suggestions on how to make the most of Biden’s August 31st deadline.
The secret trip was a bipartisan one. Moulton went to Afghanistan with Republican Congressman Peter Meijer (MI) via connecting routes from the United Arab Emirates. They both agreed that collecting data and saving lives was more important than mainstream media criticism.
“Peter and I had been talking for a while about going to Kabul because all our official requests had been denied,” Moulton said, adding that he made requests “over months, not just recently”– long before the Taliban Insurrectionists took Kabul.
Survivors were “in hangars, some of them are just on the tarmac, and it’s crazy,” he added. “We understood as one only can from being on the ground in Kabul that we were never going to finish this in time, even if we extended to September 11th.”
“I’ve never seen more people cry, just salty Marines, seasoned State Department veterans just break down in tears, talking about their work, and hugging me, and saying thank you for coming,” Moulton added.
Despite a catastrophic terror assault on Thursday that killed at least 200 people, including 13 US service members, the White House said Thursday that the August 31st withdrawal deadline will be met.
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— Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) August 26, 2021
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