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It and we will live that tens of thousands claiming to the siv holders veterans i serve with are trying to get men and women and families out there. are so many people though have an obvious connection that documented history of helping us that were turned away or over even reached out. to say if you are telling me the 100,000 siv holders the others we know were and not sure about the 100,000 and layer on top of that you didn t hold kandahar because you were going to keep the embassy but then you gave the embassy up almost immediately. so if your plan was we are going to hold kabul because of the embassy. then you obviously didn t plan that correctly. then there is all these different questions. not only about pointing blame. hey, i don t want to get in this position again. i want to honor those 13 lives lost and make sure we don t end up in the same spot. not even talking about the 20 years of war there or talking about the fact that you know, and general mckenzie to his credit was th ....
The first is that at least at the time when there was a few thousand there, i asked well how many siv holders do you have here? because you would think after american citizens, those would have been our highest priority to get out of the country. the afghans who fought with us. work with us. it was zero. we had zero sivs at that time. secondly it was apparent by the time they got there they had already been given two year parolee status once they get to the port of entry usually dulles airport in washington, d.c. three, they have no way to stop them from walking off the base. now we have learned that two gentlemen, afghan refugees that were at fort mccoy have been charged with assault and engaging in sexual acts with a minor. so, this is unsurprising because the whole withdrawal has been an absolute fiasco. a fact that was confirmed to me in the hearing we had this week with general austin, general milley, and general mackenzie where all three gentlemen tried to spin this as a success ....
The collapse of our allies once we pulled the air cover from them. they lied about the fact that they would stay until every last american was gotten out. we still don t know and can t get a straight answer from the state department how many american passport and green card holders and siv holders there are. the administration continues to treat it as a p.r. ciels is. the president doesn t explain the reality of the terrible harm this has done to our standing in the world. what it does to our allies as we try to stand up to the growing expansionist threat of the chinese communist party. the president doesn t want to deal with the military or moral implications. he views everything as a short term p.r. crisis. dana: general milley was also talking about the threat to american has increased in the last six weeks. watch this. i think the ends will remain the same to protect the american people. ....
first of all, sir, thank you for your personal service in our military and thanks for the service of your family members. we remain grateful. on the issue of evacuating american citizens and siv holders, or siv applicants, this work continues on. we re not finished and we ll make sure that we stay focused on this to get out every american citizen that wants to leave and has the right credentials to be able to leave. on the issue of the security at the airport, it was my assessment and i remain convinced of this, that the risk to mission and risk to force was beyond significant and had we stayed there much longer, we would have endured continued attacks by isis-k and potentially the taliban. ....
Senator kaine democrats said you have to name an evacuation czar, somebody in charge of this, of getting our people out. there is a total disinterest in finding out who is left behind. pete: why would they be interested? paying attention to that means knitting that you have left still thousands of americans stranded. so what we have we done? we have effectively outsourced it to these veterans organizations task force pineapple and others that have committed themselves to saying the government may forget but we never will. we are not going to leave anyone behind. you still have bureaucratic reasons why the state department and others don t want the credit to go to those groups or opportunity to go to these groups you guys know most siv holders never got out. most never got out. you have problems unvetted afghans who are not prepared to come to the united states. what a disaster and they just want to turn the page and they won t be able. ....