{"id":680039,"date":"2021-08-24T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680039"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:21:06","slug":"vice-president-kamala-harris-bragged-about-successful-drawdown-of-us-embassy-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vice-president-kamala-harris-bragged-about-successful-drawdown-of-us-embassy-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Kamala Harris Bragged About \u2018Successful Drawdown\u2019 Of US Embassy In 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\">26<\/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%2Fvice-president-kamala-harris-bragged-about-successful-drawdown-of-us-embassy-in-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=680039&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-24-at-12.43.28-PM-e1629827073242.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris referred to the hurried evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a \u201csuccessful drawdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris spoke to reporters in Singapore about the \u201csuccessful drawdown of the embassy\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/stack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-direct-threats-get-american-hostages-out-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kabul<\/a>, touting the fact that it had transpired \u201cwithout any American casualties.\u201d <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/government-worker-family-stranded-cant-get-to-kabul-airport-beaten-whipped\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We Are Stranded\u2019: Government Worker Says Family Is \u2018Trapped,\u2019 Can\u2019t Get To Kabul Airport Without Being Beaten And Whipped)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.0578947368421\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kamala Harris brags about the \u201csuccessful drawdown of the embassy\u201d when asked about the situation in Afghanistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OUo0xbd6Rc\">pic.twitter.com\/OUo0xbd6Rc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The First (@TheFirstonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFirstonTV\/status\/1429831133093638149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy and thankfully without any American casualties,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/meghan-mccain-kamala-harris-joker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris<\/a> said. \u201cWe have seen thousands of people who have been evacuated from the airport in Afghanistan where the United States military are doing very hard and difficult work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner took issue with the vice president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wh-officials-tout-successful-drawdown-embassy-afghanistan-amid-withering-criticism-1622148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">characterization<\/a> of the situation \u2014 and argued that while there were no reports of America fatalities, the claim that there were no American casualties was not accurate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to drill down a little bit on the word \u2018casualty.\u2019 That does not totally mean death. It means injuries and death. It would be only fatalities the way that she said it there,\u201d Faulkner said, noting that there had been multiple reports of Americans sustaining beatings en route to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we know there have been U.S. casualties? Because the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told us Americans were being beaten on the way to checkpoints. That\u2019s a casualty, that\u2019s an injury,\u201d Faulkner said. \u201cBut what she is talking about we believe is people who perished. We\u2019ll hope that number stays at zero as far as it is reported.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner went on to say that Harris had not mentioned Afghanistan at all in a speech later that day despite it being billed as a \u201cmajor foreign policy speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Harris talked about how climate change could impact supply chains for Christmas gifts, saying, \u201cIf you want to have Christmas toys for your children it might now be the time to start buying them because the delay may be many, many months. The climate crisis is fueling a lot of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris referred to the hurried evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a \u201csuccessful drawdown.\u201dHarris spoke to reporters in Singapore about the \u201csuccessful drawdown of &#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-680039","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\/680039","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=680039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680039\/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=680039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}