If This Was Scratch And Sniff You Would Smell The Horseshit

Rightwing Republicans and their media leaders have been quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies. In the same breath these same scum insist that those refugees, those allies, cannot be brought to the United States.

Additionally they say, Trump was right to bring our troops home, and he was right to free 5000 Taliban terrorists. But how dare President Joe Biden bring our troops home with so many Taliban terrorists running free, in Afghanistan.

And, they say, there’s no way Afghan refugees who might be coming to the U.S. would be doing so to escape the Taliban terrorists we (Trump & GOP) freed. That idea is a hoax, they say.

And this from an elected member of Florida’s House of Representatives (who will be running for U.S. House in 2022):

Any Republican that doesn’t help fight against the plan to bring 100k Afghans into the country must be primaried

Every @GOP official must go on record NOW
— Rep. Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) August 17, 2021

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This read is essential for anyone interested in a little dose of reality:

Hypocritical Afghanistan Critics Prove Ignorant About Afghan History

After years of ignoring it, pundits and reporters have rediscovered Afghanistan.

By Laurence Lewis at Crooks and Liars

Afghanistan is not Joe Biden’s fault. The anticipated coming horrors are not Joe Biden’s fault. Former President George W. Bush recently criticized the pullout of American troops from Afghanistan, which breaks the scales of hypocrisy, given that it was his disastrous failures that ensured the war was unwinnable, after his administration’s disastrous failures enabled the worst ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil, which triggered the war in the first place. The Washington Post editorial board recently criticized the pullout, but the Washington Post editorial board helped cheerlead and lie the U.S. into the illegal and immoral Iraq War, which ensured that the effort in Afghanistan would disastrously fail.

None of this is Joe Biden’s fault.

Here’s a clue: If twenty years of war and military occupation in a far distant nation can’t succeed in creating a stable, self-sustaining government, nothing the U.S. can do will. Many of those responsible for this failure in Afghanistan are now all over the media attempting to blame Biden. MORE