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Bush Admin. Official Reacts To Afghanistan’s Fall To Taliban
“Would you just stay forever then? What would you have done—just stay indefinitely? 10 years? 20 years?” Mehdi Hasan asks Jamil Jaffer, Associate White House Counsel to George W. Bush.
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@lavitascott239
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Property damage ? I want🙏 to watch this next show/movie
@dragaming8083
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Gorbachev: wanna hear joke bush?
Bush: sure
Gorbachev: Afghanistan
Bush: i don't get it
Gorbachev: exactly
@kamalakelly6208
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
He might still be free in this world due to justice weakness in this era but he is soul will never be free hear-after for what he has done
@justmenotyou3151
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Why are you interviewing this Republican clown you dip.
@MrCymru
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Biden is a lost cause. Delivered weapons to Taliban and brought more Afghans to the Americas than he brought of his own American people.
@sameer75171
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Donkey George Bush 😀
@LOSSApunktSE
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
9 days VS 20 years
@elliottboomsluiter7214
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
We've been fostering a lie for more than 10 years. That our military could affect anything positive in Afghanistan after Bin Laden was killed, has been an expensive and costly in lives, lie. There's no nation to build. Only the borders of other countries who desperately want nothing to do with Afghanistan.
@thisguy2909
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
🖕- first class to all you demos out there
@wv-dixie6374
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
How can people stand these fake reporters? Just hearing them makes ya stupid no wonder so many are brainwashed & vote blue no matter who
@wv-dixie6374
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Joe Biden cares more for taliban than Americans therefore he must be a taliban terrorist sold 🇺🇸 out too everyone gave talibans 200 aircraft black hawks & 600,000 weapons too taliban disgusting disgraceful disease that dishonored all Americans & the constitution he swore too protect
@sabineschiu
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Bush, stop your crocodile tears. You are the last person to comment any issue on Middle East. Go home and keep digging your own grave.
@esmeralda478
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
If this guy was legal counsel to GW, then did he legally justify torture?
@CornPopandSpecialK-jh9br
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Biden = end of empire!!!
@johnsteiner3417
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
In Jamil's false equivalence he glossed over the fact that Bush's people ordered tortured whereas Biden had not.
@jagdpanther2224
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
This is Karma!
@mcfishyfirst253
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
We went in on lies bush had plenty of time to make the bulletproof vests we needed I told bush how to make the war better and he did the opposite I had to tell a actual military soldier bush is the devil just like the capital rioters
@Boudb513
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
IF THE PRESIDENTS SINCE BUSH WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED BUSHED INITIAL OBJECTIVE THEN THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. PUT YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES ON AND DO YOUR RESEARCH
@skippysimon
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
can't wait until america is flooded with chinese heroin and opium because the bush family just lost their poppy business to china…thank god the bush family can still import cocaine… nobody suffers like the rich…
@CuttySobz
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Biden still left chaotically and needs to be held responsible..
@CuttySobz
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
The conversation isn't wether or not we should have stayed. It is about how chaotically Biden went about it.
@lindaleelaw5277
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Talk about inept.
HE ALLOWED 9-11.
@nonsibi1087
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Thank God Biden has the balls to be the adult in the room. War is but a series of cruelties. Always is and always has been! And the Afghan War for the US and its Allies is no different. I first observed during my military service in the late 1960's that, in Viet Nam, we Americans were intent on supporting the status quo, as we have once again in Afghanistan. In each case, the 'rebels' we sought to destroy were rooted not in animosity toward the US but toward the corrupt national leaders. And, each time, we sided with the corrupt against the masses as a matter of policy [They were "anti-communist or anti-El Queada, or whatever!]. I recall vividly an interview with a young man from a rural village who, when asked why he might consider joining the VC, told us that…."I'm a laundry boy and, if the government wins, I'll always be a laundry boy. BUT, if the VC win, I might be more." In each conflict, we sided with the corrupt who stole from their people not just riches BUT HOPE. And, in each case, we attempted to keep the past upon its throne.
@sumit5624
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Mehdi you'r such a hypocrite
@4thNebula
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
This guy is not addressing the $2T already spent that is part of our National Debt in that it was not been collected. We have never had a War Tax to pay for this. Now he wants to stay there and spend more $Trillions.
@hoffbinder
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Bush created 9/11. He sent us to Afghanistan for profit. He has the blood of thousands of soldiers and Afghanistan people on his hands. We created the Taliban. No one cares what anyone remotely connected with the Bush presidency thinks.
@ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
The blame can be atributted to this war criminal and to Ronald Reagan, the imbecile who financed the "mujahideen of freedom".
@ns281
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Billionaires who never fight, lying their way into 2 GULF OIL WARS spending $TRILLIONS OF American tax-payer dollars and filling countless body bags.
@lalliehayes6601
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Do we still have flashbacks to the end of WWII, when our troops were cheered in Europe for ending Hitler's invasions? Is that what Republicans expected to happened when we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? Countries don't seem to like being invaded; why don't we stop.
@susanbartlett-ye6476
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Bush should be getting a lot more heat over this debacle
@robertstrong6798
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
If trumps family stayed in Germany America 🇺🇸 would not be were it is today
@newsomsr2000
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Now it's time for feminist to stand up for women to Take up arms and go fight the taliban, Come on now we know you can do it don't just talk actions tick toke tick tock all we heard is feminism for fifty years now now act.
@lasmith9820
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
$169 MILLION AMERICAN!?!? Ghani should be in PRISON!
@chrisle2674
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Obama/biden had 8 years of Afghanistan. very bias news
@wolfchief7952
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Republican Presidents are the worst!!!
@Drewmack22
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Voting Biden in as President has been one of the biggest mistakes in American history
@timkaldahl
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
If they would have taken the deal then we would have saved 19 years of wasted treasure and blood. Republicans need to get out of the way and let the visas go through.
@IHS333
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Its everyones fault but Bidens.
« Cmon man! »
@dianneys4887
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Bush should have felt deep sadness when he got us into Afghanistan through lies and subterfuge. Shame on him for commenting at all.
@srunnion1
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Our daughter reached out us today, in an attempt to get the truth of what is going on in Afghanistan. This is what you would be reading right now if the propaganda outlets actually only told us the FACTS:
What’s unfolding in Afghanistan is tragic. As always, we heard a President defend his policy. No politician ever takes blame for anything. Note: When they say “they take full responsibility” IT MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! The more than $2 trillion spent; the 2,448 American lives lost; the 20,000+ American military wounded; and the promises made by both Democrat and Republican administrations that we would stay the course until they had freedom and democracy—all for nothing. The Taliban who took over the country are Islamic extremists who have no mercy and no respect for human life.
As of today, the Taliban control more territory than before we invaded. They are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than 166 other nations. Thousands of guns, dozens of light tactical vehicles and army pickup trucks, drones, rocket launchers,………… everything we armed the Afghan military with!!
How did this happen? President Barack Obama negotiated with terrorists to get back Bowe Bergdahl, the guy who chose to go AWOL and join the Taliban. The top level terrorists that Obama traded for this traitor, the 'Gitmo 5', included Khairullah Khairkhwa, the very guy credited with organizing and leading this Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan! NOTE: US INTEL OFFICIALS BEGGED OBAMA NOT TO RELEASE THIS MAN FROM GITMO. He did it anyway.
There was a plan for American/foreign withdrawal, based on certain goals being met by the Afghan leadership and military. THESE GOALS HAVE NOT BEEN MET! The Afghan military has proven they WERE willing to fight; 66,000+ have died, AS LONG AS WE KEPT PAYING THEM!! Biden’s decision was made without regard to this plan solely for symbolic/political optics since 9/11 is approaching, 20 years from the terrorist attacks that brought about the war.
The decision to abandon the promises made to Afghanistan is very likely a death sentence for many freedom-loving Afghans AND POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS WHO ARE STILL THERE AND TRAPPED!! Today we saw some try to cling to a departing aircraft, only to fall to their deaths in a desperate attempt to escape what they know the Islamist Taliban brings. Tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for America as translators and in other jobs are left as targets for these butchers because there was little thought given to a plan to get them out safely. We are now being told that the Taliban is going door to door in search for US collaborators. Every woman who has received an education in the last 20 years is now at risk. The Taliban considers women sub-human, and they have a reputation for killing women who have been educated. Mothers who teach their daughters to read and write are executed by these brutal Islamic extremists. The Taliban is taking girls 15 years and younger from families and raping then trafficking them. They are also killing husbands with young wives and doing the same.
Christians in the country are now hiding out in the mountains with just the clothes on their backs. Winter will be approaching soon and there is no way to get them aid. The Taliban has a ‘list’ of Christians and churches and believers are now being hunted.
I have NEVER agreed with America operating as the ‘policeman’ of the world or ‘nation-building’. As far as I am concerned, virtually every police action/war we have risked our soldiers lives in since WWII have been driven by the ‘military machine’, the legalized corruption (lobby money) or our thirst for oil. BOTH political parties are responsible for these senseless military exercises!!
YES, our troops should not be there or in MOST every other place in the world but NO ONE can believe this is the proper way to handle it! When did so many people become so ‘sold out’ to a political party that they will defend ANYTHING that party decides to do? How can any country in the world trust America now? Steve R.
@nancymorrison9978
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Afghanistan didn't fall to the Taliban. It was given to them on a silver platter by those Afghans in power
@mboiko
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
When your only goal is…"Get Trump out at any cost"…this is what you get and this IS the cost.
@ianboard544
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Staying another 20 years or leaving is a false choice. Leave now, but is an orderly withdrawal too much to ask?
@bostonblackie9503
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Didn't Bush sign say "Mission Accomplished?"
@robertarc5055
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
Bush was, and still is, a dope.
@richardowen4558
December 19, 2023 at 1:32 am
At least Jaffer makes some sense. I am glad he jumped back at Hasan.