Sickening: Republicans use ISIS attack to demand Biden’s resignation
Tragedy struck today when suicide bombers from ISIS’ Afghanistan affiliate attacked the airport in Kabul, killing over 60 innocent people and injuring hundreds more. Twelve American servicemen and fifteen more were killed in the shocking blast.
But the ashes hadn’t even cooled before the right-wing began exploiting the horrifying events for their own selfish political purposes. Calls for Biden’s resignation and impeachment immediately began ringing out across social media as Republicans who previously supported Trump’s withdrawal from Afghanistan disingenuously and disgustingly began exploiting a terrorist attack to score cheap political points. (See correction below.)
To say that today’s loss of American lives in Kabul is sickening does not begin to do justice to what has happened. It is enraging. And Joe Biden is responsible. It is now clear beyond all doubt that he has neither the capacity nor the will to lead. He must resign
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 26, 2021
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and General Milley should all resign or face impeachment and removal from office.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) August 26, 2021
Americans need to know: The Biden administration has failed you at every level.
Everyone involved left tens of thousands Americans behind to be the Taliban’s hostages.
Every single one, especially Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, should resign. Immediately. pic.twitter.com/ig6xu1xHzx
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) August 24, 2021
Impeach.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 26, 2021
Joe Biden must resign in disgrace or be impeached.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 26, 2021
If President Trump can be impeached over a phone call, then the time has come to IMPEACH Biden for gross negligence in Afghanistan. Americans deserve better. We deserve better than someone who willfully IGNORES the WORST crisis in decades.
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 26, 2021
If President Trump can be impeached over a phone call, then the time has come to IMPEACH Biden for gross negligence in Afghanistan. Americans deserve better. We deserve better than someone who willfully IGNORES the WORST crisis in decades.
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 26, 2021
Nobody would have ever thought to blame George W. Bush for the September 11th terrorist attacks that started this whole thing (though in hindsight they probably should have). None of these people cared when 4 U.S. Green Berets were killed on a mysterious mission in Niger or cared when Trump started a public and disgraceful feud with one of the servicemen’s widows.
None of these people cared when 2,400 U.S. troops were killed in the line of duty during the 20-year war against the Taliban. But now that there’s something they can tangentially blame on a Democrat, all of a sudden it’s the most important thing in the world!
Blaming President Biden for ISIS attacks is about as contrived a fake scandal as you could possibly come up with — but given the incessant media tantrum that has continued unabated since Biden announced the American withdrawal, you can be sure that CNN and MSNBC will be walking hand in hand with FOX to help Republicans turn this into Benghazi 2. Really just goes to show how politics in this country has been reduced to nothing but cynical opportunism.
Correction: This story has been re-categorized from News to Opinion. This story has been updated with new URL link citations and to reflect that numerous Republicans supported the Trump Administration’s plan to depart Afghanistan, then opposed the Biden Administration completing that plan while deleting the originally published phrase which could not be supported by fact, which read, “Republicans who have spent their entire careers screaming for US troops to be sent to die on foreign battlefields…”
