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2021-08-19 Afghanistan

'A bald-faced lie': Biden is slammed for claiming Kabul 'chaos' was inevitable after months of saying it was NOT. Irritable President snaps in car-crash interview over questions on Afghans falling from planes

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-19 09:08|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 1) Media lies all the time. They are not qualified to vet lies.
2) Politicians lie all the time. Too many Americans still don't get that.
3) Lies will fester and eventually kill you.

Wake. Up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-19 09:39|| 2021-08-19 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Psychopath President of a Psychopath Bureaucracy, all carefully selected by the Chinese Politbureau with help from the OPM Database.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-19 13:05|| 2021-08-19 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Well at least they're not lying dog-faced pony soldiers.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-19 13:27|| 2021-08-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Pretty sure Me & The Boys + Case Natty Light could come up with a plan in one evening.

Of course, that requires the humility to admit to drinking shit and feeling like asshole the next morning, and likely some unflattering moments in between, but the job would have got done.

So, of course, over 20 years, dedicated and educated brains have worked on this. Pretty sure it would involve Bagram in the last act, not a decision point in the act before.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-19 14:38|| 2021-08-19 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 “In addition to memory loss and confusion, many people with Alzheimer's disease have trouble sleeping. Now an NIH-funded team of researchers has evidence that the reverse is also true: a chronic lack of sleep may worsen the disease and its associated memory loss.”

Posted by Grampaw Cooky 2021-08-19 21:21|| 2021-08-19 21:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Chronic lack of sleep or poor quality sleep worsens all sorts of physical and mental health issues.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-19 23:30|| 2021-08-19 23:30|| Front Page Top

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