The daddy of a Marine killed through the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was stunned by the scope of failure by the Biden administration after a scathing Home GOP report was launched Sunday.
The 350-page report detailed many failings from the 2021 army pullout from Afghanistan, together with having no plan to evacuate People and allies.
“To be trustworthy with you, a majority of the stuff within the report is nothing new. We’ve been on the congressional hearings. We’ve performed all of the analysis that we now have with all of the completely different congressional hearings ongoing for the final one and a half years,” Steve Nikoui, father of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, mentioned on “America Studies” Monday.
Kareem was one of many 13 American troops who had been killed on Aug. 26, 2021, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive throughout an enormous evacuation effort outdoors the Kabul airport.
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Nikoui famous one shock he discovered from the report was efforts by the Afghanistan authorities to achieve out and safe assist towards Taliban takeover. Nikoui remarked that the Biden administration probably “by no means had any intention” of supporting the Afghan authorities through the withdrawal.
“What is nice, although, about this report, is that it’s lastly out. There isn’t a extra query. There isn’t a extra ‘it is a conspiracy’ or no matter. That is out in a chronological order, and everybody can see the failures that led to this botched withdrawal,” Nikoui mentioned.
Host Sandra Smith requested whether or not the report might come up within the upcoming ABC Information Presidential Debate to which Nikoui replied, “Positively it is going to.”
“The report was very thorough and comprised a number of completely different parts that the American folks have to know. The factor is, the administration lied. If it wasn’t Kamala Harris, it was Jen Psaki. If it wasn’t her, [Karine] Jean-Pierre, the one that’s representing the White Home and their lies. Manipulations are lastly popping out and being proven as what they’re,” he mentioned.
Nikoui additionally pushed again towards Democratic assaults towards former President Trump for taking part in a wreath laying ceremony with Gold Star households at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery final month.
“The one ones which can be doing any parading, political parading is the Democratic Occasion and so they’ve been mendacity from the start,” Nikoui mentioned. “To even return to what occurred at Arlington, there’s a day we’re in search of to lastly get some recognition from our authorities. A former president is coming to honor our youngsters and lay a wreath on the [Tomb of the Unknown Soldier] and so they use that as a method to make use of political leverage. What they had been doing was they had been attempting to remove from what the day was.”
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He concluded, “The Afghanistan withdrawal, it’s all on the market now. It’s all within the report, so I don’t know the way they’ll attempt to spin this in any method. There’s not likely any leverage for them to do this now.
The State Division stood by the Afghanistan withdrawal and attacked the report as partisan.
Republicans have “issued partisan statements, cherry-picked info, withheld testimonies from the American folks, and obfuscated the reality behind conjecture,” in response to a press release put out by a State Division spokesperson.
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