Biden And Milley Caught Lying About Afghan Army Numbers

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Biden And Milley Inflated Afghan Army Numbers, Pentagon Report Shows
ANDERS HAGSTROM
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
August 19, 2021
3:48 PM ET


President Joe Biden and Gen. Mark Milley drastically overstated the size of the Afghan army in recent weeks, claiming it had more than 300,000 soldiers at its disposal when it in fact had less than 200,000, according to a Pentagon Inspector General report.

The report, released July 31, details that the Afghan army had 182,071 soldiers as of April, far lower than the numbers Biden and Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs, put forward publicly. Biden said as recently as Monday that the U.S. “trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.”

Biden was combining the Afghan military and police forces, the latter of which numbered 118,628. Combining the two would have resulted in a total of 300,699 security personnel in April, but the report stipulated that force numbers had decreased significantly between April and its July release.

More here:

https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/19/...fghanistan-kabul-afghan-army-police-inflated/

IG Report here:
https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2021-07-30qr.pdf

 

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They lied about not being warned of the impending collapse and Taliban takeover as well:

US diplomats sent memo urging swift evacuation of Afghan allies weeks before Taliban takeover
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor & Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter & Jeremy Beaman, Breaking News Reporter | | August 19, 2021 07:40 PM
Updated Aug 19, 2021, 09:32 PM

U.S. diplomats issued an internal memo last month urging top State Department officials to take urgent action with evacuations as the Aug. 31 military withdrawal deadline approached.

The cable warning of the possible fall of Kabul soon after the troop pullout, sent through the agency's confidential dissent channel on July 13, pressed the Biden administration to begin collecting information from Afghans who qualify for Special Immigrant Visas and start evacuation flights no later than Aug. 1, sources told the Wall Street Journal .

This new information, reported on Thursday, follows the widespread capitulation of Afghan security forces and the rapid Taliban takeover of the country, which prompted chaotic scenes of crowds desperately trying to escape via Kabul's international airport over the past few days.

Lawmakers in Washington and others have leveled severe criticisms at the Biden administration for underestimating the speed by which Kabul fell into Taliban hands, with accusations that officials completely missed the threat altogether and congressional hearings already being called to assess the debacle.

"[Secretary of State Antony Blinken] reads every dissent and reviews and clears on every reply," Price told the Washington Examiner in a statement. "He’s made clear that he welcomes and encourages use of the dissent channel, and is committed to its revitalization."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...vacuation-afghanistan-allies-taliban-takeover