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After the package of nearly a month, my pride in their accomplishment remains undiminished. we will never forget those that made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country. this was a combat operation of the most difficult sort. a noncombatant operation carried out in contact with the enemy. the enemy was isis, a vile, tenacious foe that would have killed many more if it were not for the vigilance of our forces there. on 29 august, we undertook an mq- 9 strike against what we thought was an imminent strike. that strike was a mistake and i take full responsibility for that strike. i was ...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, president biden, announced his decision, and the u.s. military received a change of mission, to retrog...

Us. wisdom all from him, not me. it's been really crazy watching him watch all of this for the past few days. starting with before the horrible things that happened yesterday, just seeing troops and taliban like standing next to each other, he said when he was there in 2012, taliban were like ghosts and the way he put it, we never saw the whites of their eyes until after we shot them dead. and going back to the generals and the leadership, he's saying, you know, when he was there it was sort of the end of the time period where it was really a combat operation so he was wondering if those troop...

Us. wisdom all from him, not me. it's been really crazy watching him watch all ofs for the past few days. starting with before the horrible things that happened yesterday, just seeing troops and taliban like standing next to each other, he said when he was there in 2012, taliban were like ghosts and the way he put it, we never saw the whites of their eyes until after we shot them dead. and going back to the generals and the leadership, he's saying, you know, when he was there it was sort of the end of the time period where it was really a combat operation so he was wondering if those troops wh...

Essentially declare war all over again, with new military leadership, congressman mast, i mean, are we going to sacrifice another u.s. service member under this leadership? troops are great, the leaders are terrible. >> i prayed to god, as i'm sure you do, not one more life, not one more limb, not one more injury. what you are asking is, we have no strategic objectives here. they have optical objectives. we know that joe biden wanted to get out by 9/11 so he could have a celebration that ended up costing lives. we know that they didn't want it to appear as a combat operation, that was one of t...