{"id":2012123,"date":"2023-08-25T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-representative-introduces-resolution-to-impeach-lloyd-austin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:32:50","slug":"florida-representative-introduces-resolution-to-impeach-lloyd-austin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-representative-introduces-resolution-to-impeach-lloyd-austin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida representative proposes resolution to impeach Lloyd Austin for Afghanistan withdrawal."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fflorida-representative-introduces-resolution-to-impeach-lloyd-austin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal%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=2012123&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--><h2>EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Cory \u200bMills Introduces Resolution to \u200bImpeach Defense\u2062 Secretary Lloyd Austin<\/h2>\n<p>Rep.\u2063 Cory Mills (R-FL) has taken a bold step by introducing a resolution to\u2064 impeach Defense Secretary\u200d Lloyd \u200cAustin for &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; related to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Mills&#8217;s bill, obtained exclusively by the\u200c Washington Examiner, \u200caccuses Austin \u200cof a &#8220;dereliction\u200b of his duties and\u2062 intentional\u2062 abandonment of Americans in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Top Three Takeaways from the Republican Debate in Milwaukee<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Despite having nearly 8 months\u200c as Secretary\u2063 of Defense to prepare for and execute a smooth and orderly departure from \u2064Afghanistan, Secretary Austin failed to \u200cadequately \u2064prepare for such\u200c a withdrawal, including through\u2064 his decisions\u200d during the catastrophic\u200b events \u200dof July and August 2021,\u200b which initially resulted in \u200bas\u200b many as 9,000 American citizens \u2064being abandoned in\u2062 Afghanistan,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans and former \u200cmilitary \u200dmembers have long blamed President Joe\u2062 Biden\u200b for going against the\u2063 guidance of \u200chis \u200btop \u200bmilitary advisers and withdrawing the \u200centire U.S. \u200dmilitary presence in Afghanistan \u200din August\u200c 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mills, a veteran of \u200dthe Army&#8217;s 82nd Airborne Division and a member of\u2064 the House Armed Services Committee, conducted the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-representative-introduces-resolution-to-impeach-lloyd-austin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" title=\"Florida representative proposes resolution to impeach Lloyd Austin for Afghanistan withdrawal.\">successful civilian overland rescue \u200bmission<\/a> of Americans \u2062after the withdrawal. He is \u200cdetermined\u200d to hold the administration accountable for \u2064their \u2063actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High-level officials in \u200cthis administration blatantly ignored intel that Americans and our allied \u2063partners in Kabul would\u200d be left behind in harm\u2019s way unless the U.S. corrected course\u200b in our withdrawal,&#8221; Mills stated. &#8220;It\u2019s not enough \u200cfor Congress \u2064to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-have-no-reason-to-trust-the-fbi\/\" title=\"We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI\">hold committee hearings<\/a>. We must start \u2062taking\u200c real action \u200dto address the complete failure of this administration. \u200dTomorrow marks two years to the day that we lost 13 of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/budweisers-new-can-design-makes-customers-distance-themselves-further-from-brand\/\" title=\"Budweiser's revamped can design pushes customers away from the brand.\">brave\u2062 service members<\/a>. The fact that it has been two entire years without any member of this administration \u2064being \u2062held accountable is unfathomable. That changes\u200c today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resolution alleges that Austin&#8217;s actions led to the &#8220;unnecessary deaths&#8221; of 13 U.S. service members in Kabul. \u2064A new book, &#8220;Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden&#8217;s Fiasco \u2062and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,&#8221; reveals that the Taliban failed \u2062to act on \u200cU.S. intelligence and conduct an assault on ISIS-K members just days before the\u2064 13 members were killed in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my thirty years around the \u200dUnited States military, I have never witnessed a Secretary of\u200b Defense more focused on putting politics \u2063over military\u2064 readiness, troop welfare, and \u200bour national security than Secretary Austin,&#8221; said Chad Robichaux, a former \u200dRecon Marine who rescued more than 17,000 people following the Afghanistan 2021 withdrawal. &#8220;He, \u2063along with this administration, have destroyed parts of our military history, culture, troop morale, \u200cand\u2062 most \u2064concerning, our readiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defense\u2063 leaders argued at the time that while the Taliban\u200d wasn&#8217;t an ideal partner, they could be trusted \u2063in this particular instance because both sides had a similar goal: the U.S. military leaving the South Central Asian country as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Austin\u2062 testified before the House Armed\u2064 Services\u200d Committee in March, stating that he had no &#8220;regrets&#8221; about how the withdrawal took place.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Marine Mark Geist, who aided in the rescue of more than 100 Americans\u200b from the Taliban in 2021, expressed his disappointment in Austin&#8217;s leadership. \u2062&#8221;Our troops, as\u2062 well as the \u2064American public, \u200cexpect\u200d leadership and guidance to be the\u2063 voice for the servicemen and\u200c women on\u200b the ground. And Secretary Austin\u200c was not that,&#8221; Geist said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon declined to comment on \u200bthe impeachment\u200d efforts\u200b against Austin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE\u200b FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has introduced a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; linked to the Afghanistan troop withdrawal. 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