By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 09:27:31 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:24:40
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Gold Star families rip Biden’s remarks about 13 killed in Afghan withdrawal: ‘No idea what he’s saying’
NY Post ^ | 9/24/24 | Ryan King, Josh Christenson
Posted on 09/25/2024 2:11:31 AM PDT by Libloather
Family members of the 13 US service members killed in the chaotic August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan were underwhelmed Tuesday by President Biden’s brief tribute to their loved ones before the United Nations General Assembly.
Biden, 81, defended the fiasco as “a hard decision, but the right decision” during what was likely his final address to the global body.
“Thirteen brave Americans lost their lives, along with hundreds of Afghans in a suicide bomb. I think [of] those lost lives — I think [of] them every day,” the president said, stumbling over his prepared remarks.
Relatives of the fallen Americans were skeptical.
“He thinks of them only because they are the casualties of his reckless decisions and policies,” Gold Star dad Steve Nikoui told The Post in a text message. “When he says he thinks of them everyday, what he really means is he despises them because they, in his eyes, have tarnished his legacy.”
“That withdrawal, as well as the loss of lives, are the main reason why he is a one-term president,” added Nikoui, whose son Kareem, a Marine Corps lance corporal, was among those murdered by an ISIS-K suicide bomber at the Abbey Gate of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
“He has no idea what he’s saying at this point. That speech was written by one of his staff and they are trying to cover Joe Biden for his involvement in the critical debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Gold Star father Darin Hoover also told The Post in a text message.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; brandon; families; goldstar
1 posted on 09/25/2024 2:11:31 AM PDT by Libloather
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