The veteran lawmakers sent a letter to Biden stating that a central value of military service is to “leave no one behind” and that self-imposed deadlines of withdrawal should not prohibit protecting Americans and U.S. allies.
“We write today to ask you to commit to evacuating all Americans and Afghan partners. Given the rapidly changing situation on the ground, deadlines imposed by others should not guide the evacuation of our fellow Americans and those whose support for our mission in Afghanistan has placed them and their families in grave danger,” the For Country Caucus members wrote.
The veteran lawmakers stressed the need to keep the Hamid Karzai International Airport under American control for evacuations, and the need to allow American citizens, legal permanent residents, green card holders, and all Afghans who worked with the United States—regardless of their present VISA status – to receive assistance in evacuating.
“This is about more than doing the right thing. This is a national security imperative. The eyes of the world are watching whether we will stand by our friends. We must show the world that we will live up to our values and promises,” the For Country Caucus members wrote.
“Your administration will have broad support from America’s veterans in the challenging task of evacuating our Afghan partners. To many of us, these Afghan partners have names and faces,” the For Country Caucus members wrote. “They fought with us and served shoulder-to-shoulder with us for decades to help us achieve our mission and come home to our families. We view it as a personal and moral imperative to do the same for them now. Veterans will support a decision to ensure that we do not leave our Afghan comrades behind.”
The veteran lawmakers concluded the letter asking that Biden not finish the American drawdown in Afghanistan until all American citizens and Afghan partners are evacuated.
Click here to read the full letter.
Garcia said his office is working on more than 100 cases to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan. Constituents aware of Americans or allies trapped in Afghanistan are encouraged to contact Garcia’s office at 661-568-4855.
[Information via news release from the office of Rep. Mike Garcia.]
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Tim Scott says
LOLOLOL…all of a sudden according to Hunter there’s “a subject as important as Afghanistan.” Where TF have you been with your “super important topic” for the last TWENTY EFFING YEARS Hunter? Riddle me that!
Where were you when GWBush decided to enter a “holding action” in Afghanistan so he could sidetrack into ANOTHER war rather than finish the one he had?
Where were you when Obama ordered the mission that killed Osama bin Laden but didn’t then say “that’s what we went to Afghanistan to do, supposedly, and the nation building bit didn’t work and is never gonna work so we are outta there”? Admittedly, the pragmatism of a pending reelection campaign pretty much forced him to back away from that even though I am pretty sure he knew that it was the right thing to do at the time.
Where were you when your orange maned gibbering gibbon backed out of his promises about getting out of the stupid GWBush wars? For the record it’s pretty clear that his motivation in breaking those promises was that he held his followers in such low regard that he was keeping the opportunity to just make the same promises in his reelection campaign and you goobers would believe him again. Credit where it is due, Trump understands just how dumb the rank and file GOP can be.
Hunter says
Appears my response to your nonsense isn’t going to get through the moderator. Normal treatment for the conservative side. Too bad because everything said is documented in history.
So enjoy your site where you can spin bs freely.
Tim Scott says
Sure Hunter…whatever you say. Everything is, in fact, documented.
Trump did, in fact, approach the attorney general and direct him, in contradiction of all facts turned up by the DoJs investigations, to “just say the election was stolen” anyway. Trump wanted that official DoJ investigation stamp of credibility applied to his bald faced wishing that he had not lost. That attorney general wasn’t some “partisan liberal democrat,” it was a Trump appointee.
That is from testimony given to a senate committee. That is as “documented in history” as there is ever going to be.
William says
Conservatives have been spreading lies like voter fraud. Trump commission disbanded after 11 months with no evidence of widespead voter fraud.
Then, they spread the election fraud lie, still ongoing.
They lie all the time.
So, maybe that’s why their dishonest comments are booted sometimes.
Quit lying Hunter and others or keep lying and complaining. Take yer pick.
Try honesty, Hunter. Come on. You can do it. Little children can do it.
Tim Scott says
read your damn e-mail William
Tim Scott says
This insurrectionist scumbag is the wrong guy to call the leader of anything.
Beecee says
You mean the “meandering”
Breaking today:
FBI finds scant evidence Jan 6th was a coordinated effort.
Facepalm….
Tim Scott says
“Just say the election was corrupt and leave it to me and guys like Kevin McCarthy and Mike Garcia to end 240 years of elected government.” Donald Trump
Hunter says
Donald Trump did not say the quote you have attributed to him.
Typical spin from the left not to mention it’s a bald face lie.
Tim Scott says
lol…I substituted names for “the congressional Republicans.” The substance is unchanged. Are you saying that Kevin McCarthy and Mike Garcia wouldn’t have been included in the “congressional Republicans” that Trump was counting on to prevent the due process of certifying the election results so that he could seize power in the resulting constitutional crisis?
Hunter says
Tim
Your Trump quote is apparently one you made up.
William says
Hey, Hunter or whoever.
Nothing has to be proven to you. Nothing.
You guys won’t accept documented evidence, video recordings, testimony, etc.
You guys then believe the lies of Trump and the Republicans.
The Republican Party is finished. Just what are you hanging onto? .
So, there’s that.
The courts will take care of Trump as they have been doing for the most part. Even his picks on the courts voted against his interests.
You , however, are a pitiful leftover from the tea party and whatnot. There are lots of you and you are a bigger problem than the Taliban, immigrants, and whomever you blame for this country’s problems. It’s the Republican Party. Always has been the party of has-beens. You included.
The Repulicans have done more damage to this country than any foreign powers. Putin knew which party and guy to support in 2016 and got his small amount of money’s worth as Trump and you continue to undermine this nation.
Hunter says
I’m not saying anything except you’re a spin master and have no trouble making things up, same as Biden. When the topic is one as important as Afghanistan you have to blast Trump because there’s no excuse for Biden’s incompetence.
Tim Scott says
Hunter, while I freely admit that I obviously embellished it a bit I did not change the gist.
And before you try the “mainstream media” dodge…sure, they reported it (I’m sure Faux News didn’t). But you don’t get to just say “if it is on CNN it’s a lie,” because their reporting is sourced. The person Trump said that to was the assistant attorney general of the United States, and a Trump appointee. He was testifying to the senate judiciary committee. Multiple US senators on that committee have repeated it.
Trump attempted to recruit the leadership of the Department of Justice, who had reported to him that there was no factual evidence supporting his absurd claims that the election was stolen from him, into a plot to overturn the election anyway. Period. The only surprising thing in that story is that Bill Barr resigned rather than go along with it.
The fact that Trump would concoct such a plan and try to catty it out is no surprise at all. The fact that “the congressional Rs” were complicit in the plan is no surprise at all. Not all of them, obviously, but is there any doubt that Garcia and McCarthy are among the ones that were?
William says
Hey, Tim
I guess since you corrected Hunter re: Trump’s remarks, he will come back and acknowledge his error.
Well?
Where is he?
Tim Scott says
lolololol…surely you jest! A Trumpist acknowledge their error? Has that ever even happened?
Beecee says
Stay on topic sir…
Look a squirrel!
Tim Scott says
Admittedly, Mike Garcia is a squirrel. The attempted overthrow of constitutional government that he was a part of does seem to be on topic though.
Stinger says
BeeEss; this was no ‘meandering’, you lying sack of trump, and you know it.
This report only makes it clear that the primary cause of the insurrection attempt was, indeed, direct provocation to riot at the time by Trump and his cronies. Guilty.
Fact is, there were some coordinated efforts, but those were small groups without interconnection to any others… Pretty much like we saw on that day as self-evident. Some idiots were already incited and came with some preparation while most were whipped up at the time by their inciter in chief dumbigod.
Trumpist#1 says
“lying sack of trump”. Haha, I like it. Maybe I’ll use it as a screen name someday.
William says
But, Trumpist. How will we know it’s really you and not some weird guy?
You are so precious.
May I call you “Precious”.?
Trumpist#1 says
That’s what all my friends call me.
Stinger says
Ever notice that he has a similar look as Gaetz? Creepy.
William says
Hey, Stinger
I caught that similarity too . It’s the look in the eyes of a zealot.
Gov. Ron Desantis looks like a blind man. His eyes are really weird. I suspect that’s how one looks when one knows better but does the wrong thing anyway. There are a lot of them in the GOP.
Historians are going to have real challenge explaining how millions of Americans all lost their minds and not only voted for Trump but bought all the lies that came with him.
Tim Scott says
Yeah, different causes there, but definitely a good catch on the power hungry megalomaniac eyes that all these insurrectionists have.
Tim Scott says
wow…my parenthetical reference to Jackson Browne got left out there…some algorithm must have interpreted it as an attempt to embed code and attack the server…
Beecee says
^ Nerd ^
Tim Scott says
^consistent^
Trumpist#1 says
Hey, maybe I’m wrong and William and Stinger really are two separate delusional and pathological personalities after all!
Tim Scott says
You are wrong. I’ve met William, and I am pretty sure that I have met the person now using Stinger as a screen name.
William says
Oh, Sybil aka Trumpi$$ed.
I have used many usernames but I have only 1 personality.
You, however, with your regrettable username operate with several personaities.
-there’s the joker
-there’s the drunken rant during daylight hours.
-there’s the nasty guy
-there’s the self-deprecating charmer
However, not one of them is on the right side of history. How can that be?
Oh, well. The important thing is you aren’t Miss American Pie. She’s got crazy cornered for everyone here.
After you’ve perused her pitiful, (the word of the day) posts, can you imagine what it’s like being her. How does she find her way out of a room with an open door? Must be fun to watch that.
She must try to open the door Trump drew on the wall with his Sharpie like he did with the weather map. Then, she’ll blame Democrats because it won’t open.
Come on. You know that’s true.
Trumpist#1 says
OK, I admit I was absolutely wrong.
So we all agree that they are indeed two separate delusional pathological people?
Just kidding. Anything for a laugh. And George Carlin was great.
Stinger says
Meh.