Quote:A Marine who was injured in the deadly Kabul airport suicide bombing, during the disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, recounted the “weird” hospital visit that he received from President Joe Biden.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews was among those wounded in the Aug. 26, 2021, bombing that killed 13 American servicemembers as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan while evacuating thousands of Afghans fleeing the Taliban. Vargas-Andrews testified in March before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the attack, saying it could have been prevented.

“Two minutes later, he walks in with him Jill Biden and a whole entourage of people, and like a photographer, and uh, right away, like remember him coming up to me and trying to shake my hand, like much trying to shake my right hand,” Vargas-Andrews, who lost his right arm in the attack, told Shawn Ryan. “And I looked at him and I’m like, ‘I don’t have an arm’ and my left arm is in this big-ass cast.”

Vargas-Andrews described how Biden briefly grabbed the fingers of his left hand, saying to Ryan, “I was like, okay, that’s weird.” Vargas-Andrews then said Biden talked about his son Beau, who served in Iraq and later died of cancer.

“My mom said she was like, ‘I don’t give a f–k what you guys say, I don’t care what you guys f–king do,’ she’s like ‘you better take care of him for the rest of his f–king life,’” Vargas-Andrews recounted.

Biden’s response to Vargas-Andrews’ mother’s comment left the wounded Marine “confused.”

“She said that and I’m sitting there and he comes over to me and he leans over me and I have a picture of this to prove it, I’ll show you this picture that I have and it’s a pretty funny picture, he leans over me and he’s like this close to my face and he’s like, ‘What do you want?’”

“I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘What do you want?,’ I’m just like confused and I just got blown up and just f–king saw my friends die next to me, like I just want to be myself.”

The botched evacuation has been a sore spot for the Biden administration, with many calling for Biden’s impeachment as well as calls for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley to resign.

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Mom of Marine Killed in Kabul Airport Bombing: 'I Live Every Day Knowing These Deaths Were Preventable'

Quote:Parents of U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing attack at Kabul Airport during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal spoke at a town hall in Escondido, CA on Monday morning that was hosted by Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA). Nearly two years after the horrific attack, families haven’t received answers to many questions about the attack and there’s been no accountability for the failures that led to what Gold Star Mother Christy Shamblin calls the murder of her daughter and 11 others.

Shamblin delivered an emotional speech Monday morning remembering Marine Sgt. Nicole T. Gee, her daughter-in-law, and excoriating the Biden administration and Pentagon officials.

My name is Christy Shamblin, and I’m proud to be Sgt. Nicole Gee’s mom-in-law. Her mama, Becky Herrera, would be here today, but she unfortunately passed before Nicole, and I like to think that she was waiting for her in heaven…

One of my favorite memories of Nicole includes the picture that was taken of her just days before her murder in Afghanistan. She’s holding an infant and she posted with that, “I love my job.” She’s in the middle of the most horrific conditions I’ve ever witnessed in my life, and she’s proudly serving her country and loving her job, doing it 100 percent. She held nothing back.

She said that her son was also an active-duty Marine, and the two were stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. She was with him the day he was notified that Nicole was among those who died in the bombing, and attended the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base with him on that day when Joe Biden was observed checking his watch while the families grieved.

There have been no answers for these families about why the drone operator who had a lock on the bomber was denied permission to shoot, why the Abbey Gate was still open when the Pentagon knew of the credible threat and even the approximate day and time the attack would be carried out, why the U.S. simply released prisoners held at Bagram Air Field when that base was abandoned (much to the surprise of our Afghan allies), and much more. This has made it even more difficult for the families, Shamblin says.

When your child is murdered, you feel there is no justice, and you question your very existence….

You gain small footings every day to make a new chapter in your lives.

One way that new chapter is written is by “helping for a positive change,” she says, but everyday Americans help by listening to their stories.

We’re so very grateful for people like yourselves and for Americans who want to hear our childrens’ stories, because we don’t get to make new memories with our children. All we have is our memories. All we have is the stories that we get to share with you guys.

We’re grateful for the support of people like Congressman Issa and several other congressmen who have been taking us and really allowing us to have our voices heard and to make it better for both our active-duty service members, our veterans, and the next families that will have to welcome their children home in a casket draped with a flag. It will happen again. It is the cost of the greatest country on earth, and it’s the cost of our freedoms. And we want to make sure that while we can’t bring our children back, the next ones will be treated with more respect, the respect that they earned by dying for our country. Helping for a positive change is the silver lining for our family.

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary the Biden administration continues to call the Afghanistan withdrawal a success, which is a disrespectful stab to the heart of these families and to the memories of those murdered.

When our leaders, including the Secretary of Defense and our Commander in Chief, called this evacuation a success, as if there should be celebration, it is like a knife in the heart for our families and for the people who came back and for every service member that served over this 20-year war.

As mentioned above, many failures led to that horrible moment when 13 Americans were killed and there were several opportunities to stop it. Shamblin continued:

I live every single day knowing that these deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today. And that wasn’t just one decision. It was many decisions. Many times over it could have been stopped. So, to call it a success is an ultimate disrespect for the very people that deserve every ounce of respect that we can give them.

That day, there were 13 avoidable deaths of our service members, 30-plus critically wounded, wounded warriors, who have our hearts. These young men and women came back bigger patriots than they left. I don’t know how that’s possible, and I admire them from the bottom of my heart.

We left thousands – thousands – of allies behind, billions of dollars in resources for them to use against us. This was not a success, and doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. What we’re asking for is to stop the insanity and make it better for the next group.

At the conclusion of Monday’s proceedings Issa promised that he and others in Congress are not going to let this issue rest, that they have critical questions for the Pentagon and won’t stop until they have all of the answers.

"At the conclusion of Monday’s proceedings Issa promised that he and others in Congress are not going to let this issue rest, that they have critical questions for the Pentagon and won’t stop until they have all of the answers."

The only answer that is worthy is that those responsible like Miley are courtmartialed for dereliction of duty and that Austin is condemned for his incompetence and THE SOB impeached and for every soul in this country and even elsewhere in the world knows about his stupidity and again incompetence. Those Marines are owed that much for their sacrifice.

Mother of Marine Slain During Afghanistan Withdrawal Shares Heart-Wrenching Story of What Joe Biden Told Her

Quote:As RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar reported on Monday, Gold Star families gathered in Escondido, CA to share their stories as we near the anniversary of the disastrous and completely preventable Afghanistan evacuation.

Christy Shamblin, representing the family of Seargent Nicole Gee, who was famously photographed saving a baby hours before a suicide bomber took her life, spoke forcefully about what she and others had endured.

Parents of U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing attack at Kabul Airport during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal spoke at a town hall in Escondido, CA on Monday morning that was hosted by Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA). Nearly two years after the horrific attack, families haven’t received answers to many questions about the attack and there’s been no accountability for the failures that led to what Gold Star Mother Christy Shamblin calls the murder of her daughter and 11 others.

Other mothers took the stage to speak as well, including Cherly Rex, whose son Lance Corporal Dylan Merola was also killed in the suicide bombing. What followed was a heartbreaking, and sometimes infuriating tale of her interaction with President Joe Biden following the tragic events of that day.

REX: When Joe Biden, our elected president, entered the room, when he approached me, his words to me were, “My wife Jill and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well, and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.”

My heart started beating faster and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side. Also, wondering how someone could honestly (tears up and pauses), sorry, be so heartless to say he knew how I felt a little over 24 hours of learning of my son’s death.

After this encounter, I have never had any personal correspondence nor has my son been honored or his name spoken by this Command and Chief or his administration, on what I feel is because of their failures and poor planning to exit our troops from Afghanistan.

These are always the hardest stories to write. While Dylan’s mother was fighting back tears during her speech, I was fighting back my own watching her give it. You can sense the weight she’s carrying while at the same time understanding that you could never begin to truly know what she feels. The heartbreak of losing a son so suddenly, in what was such a senseless operation, is not something that ever leaves a person.

That’s not to say that Dylan didn’t die a hero because he did, but it is to say that he died because certain politicians wanted their names to be heralded in the press, chief among them Joe Biden. The current president rushed through an ill-advised plan to withdraw from Afghanistan because he wanted political credit for doing so. The servicemembers involved did their duty. Their Command and Chief did not. That reality is one that clearly haunts Cheryl Rex and the other parents who suffered such an incredible loss as a result.

Listening to her share what Biden said to her is as heartbreaking as it is infuriating. To walk up to her and say “I know how you feel” while proceeding to lie about his own son’s death is unconscionable. Cancer is tragic, but it is not dying at the hands of a suicide bomber because of decisions that selfish politicians made, and when someone states their son was “brought home” in a “flag-draped coffin,” that is a clear assertion that their son died in combat. Beau Biden did not die in combat, and his father’s continued disinformation over the matter is grotesque.

I’m left astonished at the callousness of it all. Nothing about the president’s demeanor during the dignified transfer in 2021, where he checked his watch instead of standing at attention, showed a man who actually cared about what he had caused. Certainly, Cheryl Rex’s story doesn’t disprove that notion.

This is not a topic I take lightly. I questioned whether to even write this story because the last thing I want to see is a tragedy turned into a partisan matter. It’s not these Gold Star parents that are doing that, though. They deserved so much better than being subjected to patronizing falsehoods from the man who visited upon them such unspeakable pain. That they didn’t get it is shameful.

THIS IS THE IMAGE I WILL REMEMBER ABOUT BIDEN* AT DOVER AB AS THE DEAD SOLDIERS WERE CARRIED OFF THE MILITARY TRANSPORT:

Nothing about the president’s demeanor during the dignified transfer in 2021, where he checked his watch instead of standing at attention, showed a man who actually cared about what he had caused.

And the idiot half of the country will line up to vote for this moron jacka$$.

Biden is a piece of, well you know. 81 m votes my ass.

Afghanistan Gold Star Mom: I Wept, Wanted Comfort From Biden. He Suggested a Photo With Him Instead.

Quote:A grieving gold star mother recently relayed her perspective of an encounter with President Joe Biden on Memorial Day 2022.

The mother, Paula Knauss Selph, was grieving the death of her son, Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss when invited to meet with Biden in the Oval Office.

Sgt. Knauss was killed at Kabul’s international airport, along with 13 U.S. soldiers on August 26, 2021, in what many have referred to as a disastrous exit from the Afghan theater.

Selph recalled: “I leaned into my son’s coffin to hug him for the last time. I wept more than I ever have.” This painful recollection paints a vivid picture of the unimaginable sorrow of a mother who had just lost her son in Afghanistan.

According to the Daily Mail, when Selph met Biden, he said, “I can understand if you’re angry.”

“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball,” Selph said. “I began to weep [and told him], ‘It should have never happened this way.’”

According to Selph, the president “stood there stoically, ‘nothing out of his mouth except — ‘well would you like to get a photo with me?’”

According to The Daily Wire, Selph told the president “the only picture she would take with him was if he stood with her at her son’s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.”

Biden reportedly replied, “I can’t do that because Secret Service won’t let me do that.”

An angry Selph said: “It’s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace,” Selph said, adding that Biden thought the “sad occasion” was a “photo op’” rather than an opportunity to comfort the grieving.

Speaking about her son, Selph said: “Ryan, all of his life was quite certain he wanted to go in the armed forces. … He was so disciplined. He was so smart. … He was protecting and giving us the opportunity for many people to live out the American dream. That’s what will long outlive all of us.”

Selph’s anger has been echoed by other grieving families. Congressional members and Selph’s Respect and Remember Foundation are encouraging the grieving to share their stories.

Dissatisfaction with America’s unceremonious withdrawal from Afghanistan intensified after the president communicated indifference when the bodies of American soldiers were brought home and he was caught on camera looking at his watch.

He's a bonafide POSchiff! I don't like him at all. Corrupt to the end, a modern day Caligula.

WATCH: Gold Star Moms Rip Into Joe Biden's Phoniness in ABC Interview

Quote:The ABC segment begins with Biden reading from a teleprompter. It's hard to watch without becoming gripped by anger. It was two years ago. Biden looks bored, as if he's reading what someone had written for him. He was sorry. Sure, he was sorry that it happened. It made Joe look bad. At least he said something to that effect – but I was focused on his eyes. He looked disinterested, likely thinking of something else. He wanted to be anywhere but there. Thirteen Americans had been killed at Kabul airport. The "Abbey Gate." Indeed, it was his fault. The Pentagon, and ultimately Biden, had been warned. Those warnings were ignored.

Abbey Gate was a perfect place for a suicide bombing. It was a funnel full of civilians and U.S. military personnel. Terrorists exploited the crush of humanity and the lack of security, and they strapped explosives on a fellow terrorist and sent him out to murder as many people as possible. In addition to the thirteen Americans who died, dozens more were injured. One hundred and seventy Afghans were killed. And Biden was bored.

The remains of America’s fallen heroes were found, identified, and flown back to the United States. The scene of flag-draped caskets being removed from aircraft at Dover is heart-wrenching still.

Sgt. Nicole Gee was the Marine whose image has become the symbol of American humanity. Gee was photographed cradling a baby in her arms. She died "going a job she loved." But when Nicole came home, her mother-in-law said, that when it came to "people in suits," things felt disingenuous and hollow. The casket containing Marine Cpl. Humberto Sanchez was at Dover Air Force Base as well. His grieving mom was at Dover. Joe Biden greeted Mrs. Sanchez by calling her “Ms. Lopez.”

Why did he do such an awful thing—such a disrespectful error? I have a theory. One of the fallen Marines was named Lopez. His first name was "Hunter." Joe Biden was thinking of another son. Not the sons of Mrs. Sanchez and Mrs. Lopez but his own son Hunter. Biden then, predictably, launched into his usual conflation about his other son, Beau. He “knew” how “Ms. Lopez” felt because his son Beau was a soldier, and Beau died in the GWT (Global War on Terrorism), too. Of course, he hadn't. That is a lie. Mrs. Sanchez was mortified. Of course, Biden didn’t know how she felt. Her son died in the service of his nation. He died helping others. Mrs. Sanchez correctly said Biden was with his son when Beau died in a hospital bed. Mrs. Sanchez added what we all feel and often say: “It was all about him.” It's always about Joe Biden.

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Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover’s mom was even more pointed. She couldn't stand the president. She wouldn't even meet with him. The Hoover family retreated to a room to escape Biden’s lies about Beau and his phony empathy. Her daughter and the sister of Staff Sgt. Hoover was also at Dover. She yelled at Biden, "Burn in Hell."

Mark Schmitz, the father of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, wasn't part of the ABC interview, but he testified before a Congressional committee in August. He also talked about the Afghanistan debacle and Joe Biden's phoniness:

[My son] will never have the chance to get married. He will never experience the joy of being a father, and he would have made one hell of a dad. We will never meet our grandkids. Our family name died that day. Two years have gone by and where are we? To be frank, we're knee-deep in bulls*** is where we are. Everyone who held a key position in the military still has that position or has been promoted.

Not a single general slapped down their stars which should have happened when Biden ignored his reliable intelligence… our so-called leader cannot utter their names in public, not even once.

While I stood on the tarmac, watching you check your watch, over and over again, all I wanted to do was shout out "IT’S TWO F***ING THIRTY, A***HOLE!" but out of respect for the other grieving families, I bit my tongue, once again.

On the two-year anniversary, The White House had to be shamed into acknowledging the fallen but ignored its own failures.

ABC asked the White House for comment. John Kirby was tapped to respond to these Gold Star mothers.

“We do hope they know how deeply committed the President and First Lady remain to honor the service and sacrifice of their Marines, their Soldiers, and their Sailor.”

Not a word from Joe Biden. Busy. Maybe he was busy checking his watch.

Not that it matters to you, Mr. Biden, but here are their names:

Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo; Sgt. Nicole L. Gee; Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover; Cpl. Hunter Lopez; Cpl. Daegan W. Page; Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez; Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza; Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz; Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum; Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola; Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak; Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss.