{"id":651896,"date":"2021-08-16T17:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651896"},"modified":"2021-08-16T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:21:03","slug":"mcconnell-biden-overruled-his-own-military-leaders-on-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-biden-overruled-his-own-military-leaders-on-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Biden \u2018Overruled His Own Military Leaders\u2019 On 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\">18<\/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%2Fmcconnell-biden-overruled-his-own-military-leaders-on-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=651896&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--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pull the U.S. military out of Afghanistan, claiming that he overruled his own military leaders.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell gave a speech in Kentucky, as the Senate is in recess, and was asked about Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/kevin-mccarthy-biden-admin-investigated-amid-afghanistan-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal<\/a> after the Taliban retook the country in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t surprise you I was in a number of these briefings over the last couple of months, it was pretty obvious to me what was gonna happen. I\u2019ve predicted it, and I\u2019m not in the intelligence business, that the Taliban would be in power by September the 11th, which is a date of historical significance. Just based on what we were hearing in these briefings, I know for a fact that the President\u2019s military leaders argued against this decision,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/08\/mitch-mcconnell-explains-becomes-majority-leader-again-2022-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McConnell<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the President felt strongly about this, obviously; he overruled his own military leaders to do it, and he owns it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/09\/mitch-mcconnell-republicans-democrats-socialist-shopping-list-raise-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McConnell<\/a> added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/joe-biden-address-nation-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Returning From Vacation, Biden Plays Blame Game As Afghanistan Falls)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7261685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7261685\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7261685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311-188x120.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311-620x397-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311-768x492-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311-1536x983-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Photo-by-the-White-House-via-Getty-Images-21311-2048x1310-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7261685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this White House handout, U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (on screen) hold a video conference with the national security team to discuss the ongoing efforts to draw down our civilian footprint in Afghanistan August 16, 2021 at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland. (Photo by the White House via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/us-troops-kill-two-armed-men-kabul-airport\/https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/us-troops-kill-two-armed-men-kabul-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans to deploy more&nbsp;American troops<\/a>&nbsp;until Tuesday to reach 6,000 to help with the evacuation effort, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/joint-statement-from-the-department-of-state-and-department-of-defense-update-on-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Defense and the Department of State<\/a> announced in a joint statement Sunday. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/joe-biden-address-nation-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave an address<\/a> Monday from the White House as the Taliban is quickly taking over major cities throughout the region. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/president-joe-biden-camp-david-afghanistan-troops-withdrawal-taliban-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: President Biden Travels Back From Camp David To Address Afghanistan Situation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo against everyone\u2019s advice, including the president \u2026 the current president\u2019s own military, he decided to withdraw, and withdraw rapidly. What we have seen is an unmitigated disaster, a stain on the reputation of the United States of America. Every terrorist around the world, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Africa, are cheering the defeat of the United States military by a terrorist organization in Afghanistan,\u201d McConnell added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/us-general-expects-terror-threats-from-the-taliban-al-qaeda-to-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: US General Expects Terror Threats From The Taliban And Al-Qaida To Increase)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pull the U.S. military out of Afghanistan, claiming that he overruled his own military leaders.McConnell gave a speech in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}