BIDEN DISMISSES TRAGEDY OF AFGHANS PLUNING TO THEIR DEATHS FROM GLOBEMASTER

'That was four or five days ago!' Biden snaps in car-crash interview after being asked about Afghans falling from planes in Kabul and claims US could NOT have gotten out 'without chaos ensuing'

 

Daily Mail 

August 18, 2021

 

 

Some of the lucky ones managed to rush aboard a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft. The crew decided to fly them to Qatar and safety despite having some 640 people aboard

 

President Joe Biden angrily defended his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying on Wednesday that chaos was unavoidable and snapping when asked about horrific images of Afghans falling from planes. 'That was four days ago, five days ago,' he said, even though the images of people falling to their deaths emerged on Monday. 

Video captured bodies falling from a plane as it flew out of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday. Hundreds of Afghans tried to hitch rides on departing planes

 

The world watched in horror as desperate Afghans ran alongside departing U.S. Air Force planes. Some tried to cling to the undercarriage as they sought to escape the Taliban

 

The combative moment came during an interview with former Clinton White House official George Stephanopoulos for ABC News. 

Biden has avoided taking questions on the Afghanistan crisis for more than a week. Scenes of civilians swamping planes on the runway at the Kabul airport, desperate for escape, have triggered bipartisan criticism that the Biden adinistration should have been better prepared. 

'What did you think when you first saw those pictures?' Stephanopoulos asked. 'What I thought was, we have to gain control of this,' said Biden. 'We have to move this more quickly. We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. And we did.' 

By late Tuesday, U.S. officials said they had rescued 3,200 people from Afghanistan, including all embassy personnel, except for a core group of diplomats who remained at Kabul airport. But commanders admit they are unable to leave Hamid Karzai International Airport to help other Americans - and their Afghan allies - to safety. 

Stephanopoulos asked whether the exit could have been better handled. 'No, I don't think it could have been handled in a way that, we're gonna go back in hindsight and look - but the idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens. I don't know how that happened,' said Biden.