{"id":1995681,"date":"2023-08-09T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-why-gold-star-parents-are-furious-at-biden-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:54:16","slug":"flashback-why-gold-star-parents-are-furious-at-biden-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-why-gold-star-parents-are-furious-at-biden-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star Parents Furious at Biden for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-why-gold-star-parents-are-furious-at-biden-for-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Parents of Fallen Service Members\u200c Demand Accountability from President Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Angry testimony this week by parents of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-why-gold-star-parents-are-furious-at-biden-for-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Gold Star Parents Furious at Biden for Afghanistan\">13 military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-10-us-service-members-now-reported-killed-in-kabul-bombings-death-toll-likely-to-rise\/\" title=\"At Least 10 US Service Members Now Reported Killed In Kabul Bombings, \u2018Death Toll Likely To Rise\u2019\">service members killed<\/a><\/a>\u200c during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has drawn renewed attention\u2063 to President Joe Biden\u2019s ongoing\u2062 failure to \u200ctake responsibility for the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failed-kidnapping-plot-sheds-light-on-irans-efforts-to-silence-american-journalists\/\" title=\"Failed Kidnapping Plot Sheds Light on Iran\u2019s Efforts to Silence American Journalists\">botched operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Do what our son did, be a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Gold Star Father Criticizes Biden over Afghanistan Withdrawal: 'Man Up. Acknowledge Your Errors.'\">grown-ass man\u2014admit<\/a> to your mistakes,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes\/\">said<\/a> Darin Hoover, the father of Marine\u2064 Staff \u200bSgt. Darin T. Hoover.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The younger Hoover was killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport \u2062in August 2021 while\u2063 he was providing security for the \u2064final\u200d stages of\u2062 the U.S. evacuation. His father joined the parents \u2063of several other service members killed in the attack in condemning the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the chaotic withdrawal and subsequent evasion\u2062 of responsibility. Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) <a href=\"https:\/\/issa.house.gov\/media\/in-the-news\/rep-issa-hosts-public-forum-afghanistan-gold-star-families\">convened<\/a> the meeting in his\u2064 district so that the Gold Star families could give their testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You all need to resign immediately,&#8221;\u2062 the elder Hoover said \u200bof Biden and other officials, \u2062including Secretary\u2064 of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary\u200c Lloyd Austin. &#8220;Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes \u2063than\u2062 every one of them combined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u200c and his aides have repeatedly sought to shift blame for the failures of \u2062the withdrawal, which saw the United States rush out of the country amid \u200ba Taliban takeover that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/08\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan\/\">assured<\/a> Americans would not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Five days after the \u2064bombing, \u200dBiden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/31\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan\/\">called<\/a> the mission an \u2063&#8221;extraordinary \u200csuccess.&#8221; In April,\u2063 the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault\/\">released<\/a> a\u2062 long-delayed\u200b summary \u2064of classified internal reports\u2064 on \u200bthe \u2063evacuation, claiming the Trump administration had left them &#8220;no plans&#8221; to \u200cget troops out of the country. In a press briefing regarding \u2064the report, \u2063White\u200b House spokesman John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2023\/04\/06\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-council-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-9\/\">said<\/a> that the document was &#8220;not \u2064about \u200baccountability today; it\u2019s about\u200d understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 military service members&#8217; parents expressed anger this week, highlighting President Joe Biden&#8217;s refusal to take accountability for the flawed Afghanistan withdrawal. Darin Hoover, father of a fallen Marine, urged Biden to emulate his son&#8217;s maturity and acknowledge his errors. 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