There are photos going viral purporting to show the Taliban sending American military vehicles to Iran:
Taliban is moving the American military vehicles to Iran pic.twitter.com/FuIUwJ726c
— Asaad Hanna (@AsaadHannaa) September 1, 2021
We’ll just add it to the list:
Needless to say, if true, this is just one of the numerous VERY BAD consequences of @JoeBiden's most botched departure of all time. https://t.co/mcZzsEbQT7
— Ken Cuccinelli (@KenCuccinelli) September 2, 2021
And these photos fit perfectly with this thread from Rep. Thomas Massie from Wednesday where he ripped the media and “most of Congress” for ignoring a decade of warning signs that this was where things were headed in Afghanistan:
Thread:
At least three things have been going on in Afghanistan for a decade that most of the media hasn’t covered, and most of Congress has ignored. If they had paid attention, Biden’s shameful debacle would have been easier to understand.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
First up, we were already working with the Taliban:
#1 The US govt has been working with the Taliban for years. The hydro electric dam we built with your tax money years ago… the Taliban got 1/3 of that energy. The Taliban was in control of a lot of territory and although they were pushed from power they were never annihilated.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
And it wasn’t U.S. forces that handed this equipment over to the Taliban. It was equipment the U.S. *gave* to the Afghan Security Forces and *they* gave/sold/traded it to the Taliban.
“It was a waste even in the best scenario”:
#2 Most of those aircraft and vehicles and weapons weren’t left behind by our military – they were left behind by the Afghan Security Forces. We gave them that equipment, using your tax dollars to pay the military industrial complex. It was a waste even in the best scenario.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
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Massie added that a lot of the soldiers we were paying for never even existed:
#3 a lot of the money (your money) we sent to Afghanistan to pay their soldiers went to soldiers that didn’t exist. It was diverted and stolen for many years.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
And he said more people would have been aware of this if they listened to the “Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction”:
If folks had listened to @SIGARHQ, they would have known these things and much more. The debacle might not have happened. Here’s a list of the reports they published.https://t.co/jlkeD5FvGK
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
We all are:
Even knowing this, and having drawn attention to it for almost a decade, I’m sick to my stomach at what has occurred during the withdrawal.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 2, 2021
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