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August 31, 2021
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Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff! 

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Bible Verse of the Day - 2 Corinthians 12:9
  • "8/31": What President Biden has done is a disgrace
  • Al Qaeda returns
  • Underreported Stories
  • Ida damage
  • America The Beautiful
  • Joe Biden's accomplishments...

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:9


"8/31": What President Biden has done is a disgrace

By Mike Huckabee

All right, this is JUST IT. The breaking point.

Whoever at the White House, State Department and/or Pentagon comes forward to try to put a good spin on "8/31" by saying we met “the deadline” and are “out of Afghanistan after 20 years” can just, pardon the expression, pound sand. We're NOT all out. Don’t even bother trotting somebody out to try to clean up for the mentally AWOL Commander-in-Chief in one of your increasingly ridiculous press briefings. You still have some partisan loyals in the media trying to cover for you, but in defending this President you are a pathetic joke. You know perfectly well that we ALL wanted to be out of Afghanistan, Trump included, and we were going to be, and he would've gotten us out in a way that at least made strategic sense. But this latest development is, pardon the expression again, the straw that broke the camel’s back.

What finally did it –- what irreparably broke the hearts of me and my staff –- is this image from yesterday, in which the Taliban are flying over Kandahar in one of the Black Hawk helicopters we used to own, which President Biden left for the terrorists along with $90 billion worth of other military prizes as if it were Christmas in August. Yes, we’d already seen them joyriding in a Black Hawk, but this is the first case we’ve seen of them taking one up and dangling what appears to be the body of a man hanged by the neck. Is the man dead? We don't know.

https://www.westernjournal.com/videos-show-taliban-hanging-body-neck-bidens-left-behind-us-black-hawk-helicopter-report/

The WESTERN JOURNAL reports that it is indeed a dead body and describes this as “a giant middle finger to the Western world that has battled terrorism for the past two decades.”

The video was shared by the TALIB TIMES; it’s from a Twitter account claiming to share “official news” from “the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan.” (I assume that’s what we’re supposed to call it now.) The caption reads, “OUR AIR FORCE!”

And who was this man? WAS he dead, or being tortured, or what? Maybe he was one of our interpreters or guides. Maybe a young student at American University, after our State Department refused to admit them to the airport. Maybe just some poor schlub whose beard was too short or who was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or maybe he was a happy Taliban fighter, very much alive, getting his kicks and celebrating the 8/31 defeat of the Americans.

Some have interpreted this video as appearing to show a member of the Taliban “on patrol” over Kandahar. We don’t know, but it would be the strangest patrol ever.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/taliban-hanging-us-helicopter-afghanistan-v41072cd5

Here are more details on the massive array of equipment the Taliban now have, thanks to President Biden. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who assembled the list, said the Taliban now has “more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world.” Each helicopter cost the taxpayers $6 million, and there is so much more we bought them. We've armed our own enemy to the teeth!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9941207/Taliban-Air-Terrorists-fly-captured-6million-Black-Hawk-helicopter-Kandahar.html

The administration has been trying to fool us into thinking the Taliban are “negotiating,” working with us, fulfilling our interests by going after ISIS-K, the “real” terrorists who blew up 13 of our service members at the Kabul airport checkpoint. That, as I've said, is a distinction without a difference. They are all terrorists and all want Americans dead. If the Taliban and ISIS really were enemies, the Taliban wouldn’t have released the approximately 2,000 ISIS fighters we’d detained at Bagram Air Base.

Note to Biden administration: Just stop insulting our intelligence. Calling ISIS-K the “real” terrorists to take the heat off the Taliban reminds me of O.J. Simpson’s lawyers saying he would dedicate himself to finding the “real” killer of Nicole.

And who flew this helicopter? It’s not as if some 7th-century Taliban soldier climbed aboard this ultra-sophisticated piece of equipment and somehow knew how to take it up and circle it over Kabul, dead-or-alive person in tow. Are we sure EVERY American helicopter pilot got out? Or maybe the pilot is an Afghan trained by us and now held captive. We don’t know, and, even worse, we can’t trust the White House to tell us.

Western media have been mostly banned from Afghanistan.  

Well, they did allow some media people because they wanted the world to see them take over and declare victory over America.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-fighters-kabul-airport-hangar-examine-helicopters-us-troops-depart-afghanistan

There's no telling the horrors that will go on. Those particularly in danger include Americans left behind, Afghan women and girls, interpreters and others who helped American soldiers, and Christian missionaries. We don’t know how many thousands of people this might be.

President Biden, when asked about any of this, says he’s “not supposed to take any questions” on Afghanistan. (What??) Then he walks away. Can you IMAGINE what the reaction would be if Trump were in office and he did that? They’d use it to push their fake “Russia” narrative and say Vladimir Putin had instructed him not to answer.

Here’s something else we can’t forgive Biden for, if the allegations are true: leaving our service dogs behind in Afghanistan. I’m not comparing this to the loss of 13 service members, but these dogs mean so much to the soldiers who depended on them. Some owe their lives to these dogs. Here’s the press release from American Humane, an organization that brings home retired military working dogs and pairs service dogs with veterans.

https://www.americanhumane.org/press-release/american-humane-condemns-death-sentence-delivered-to-contract-working-dogs-left-behind-in-kabul-afghanistan/

American working dogs left there by our military face a grim future: certainly death and perhaps torture. We’re looking for additional verification that these dogs have indeed been left behind in the crush to evacuate. Our leaders like to talk about “who we are”; this certainly is not it.

Something else: the airlift out of Kabul was supposed to rescue those who helped us, but it turned into such a free-for-all that Afghans weren’t vetted before boarding the planes. Here’s just one unfortunate example.

https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/30/convicted-rapist-reached-us-afghan-evacuation-flig/

Of the 2,000 rescued Afghans being held at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy, not a single one had an SIV, or Special Immigrant Visa. And according to the WASHINGTON TIMES, only “a tiny fraction” of those evacuated have been Americans.

But here's a ray of hope: An organization of retired U.S. generals and admirals called “FLAG OFFICERS 4 AMERICA” has HAD IT every bit as much as we have and is demanding accountability in the form of the resignation of the two top generals, the highest military advisers to President Biden (who should have resigned in the first place rather than carry out his disastrous orders), Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley. Know what I call those resignations? A good start.

They’ve also written a spectacular letter expressing what they think of the modern “woke” military and weighing in on a number of national security issues, including Biden’s fitness to serve. If anything will make your day, it’s this letter and the long, long list of signatories. Here it is, in pdf form to share far and wide.

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/fb7c7bd8-097d-4e2f-8f12-3442d151b57d/downloads/2021%20Open%20Letter%20from%20Retired%20Generals%20and%20Adm.pdf?ver=1630334080425


Al Qaeda returns

By Mike Huckabee

Add to the ever-growing list of President Biden’s deadly lies about Afghanistan the already-debunked (by CNN, of all people!) claim that al-Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan. Not only are they there (and the Taliban released a lot more of them from prison), but Osama bin Laden’s security chief who’d been hiding out for 20 years reemerged to a hero’s welcome and with Taliban protection.

https://www.westernjournal.com/al-qaeda-back-thanks-biden-bin-laden-goon-reportedly-returns-afghanistan-20-years-final-us-flights-leave/


Underreported Stories

By Mike Huckabee

Remember the shocking story we told you about the students at the American University in Kabul who were promised safe evacuation then turned away and left at the mercy of the Taliban? Well, as hard as it was to read, be glad you saw it here because the big three broadcast networks’ news programs chose not to report it.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2021/08/30/shameful-nets-ignore-terrified-university-students-abandoned

Also, Biden’s meeting with the Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in Kabul because of his monumental incompetence and arrogance did not go as smoothly as the TV cameras would have you believe.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-meeting-gold-star-family-blows-face-family-members-walk/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/gold-star-fathers-marines-killed-kabul-biden

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/08/31/america-hates-you-mom-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-writes-scathing-message-to-joe-biden-and-is-silenced-by-his-big-tech-buddies-n1474489

To be fair, it appears that the story about Biden looking at his watch during the transfer of bodies ceremony of the 13 troops killed in Kabul wasn’t entirely accurate. According to the furious father of one of the fallen Marines, Biden actually looked at his watch 13 times – once after each body was removed from the plane. He called it “the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/08/31/father-of-killed-marine-says-biden-checked-his-watch-as-each-body-came-out-n2595040


Ida damage

By Mike Huckabee

The damage from Hurricane Ida could reach as high as $80 billion, and the storm still hasn’t played itself out yet. Monday night near Lucedale, Mississippi, flood waters collapsed a road, sending seven vehicles into a deep hole. There were two deaths and 10 injuries, three of them life-threatening.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ida-mississippi-highway-collapses

Please pray for those in the hurricane’s path and consider a donation to Samaritan’s Purse, which will be among the first on the scene to help your fellow Americans.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org


America The Beautiful

God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Big Bend National Park, visit its website here.


Joe Biden's accomplishments...

By Mike Huckabee

Believe it or not, the White House and some diehard Biden supporters are actually complaining that the media are talking too much about Afghanistan (CNN’s Brian Stelter thinks they should be focusing on climate change) instead of giving Biden credit for all the fantastic accomplishments he’s racked up. Since I assume they must be joking, I’ll give them what they asked for and refer you to conservative political satirist J.P. Sears, who just helpfully posted a video listing Biden’s 17 greatest accomplishments.

https://youtu.be/Eq_wELID80c

The DNC is also trying to gaslight America by praising Biden for this “historic moment” in our history, when he has “accomplished what no President has been able to do: ending a 20-year war.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2021/08/31/dnc-gaslighting-on-afghanistan-n2595042

Let me finish that sentence for you: “…by abjectly surrendering, launching an idiotic pullout plan that put our weaponry and the Afghan people under the control of terrorists, and leaving an unknown number of Americans behind and in danger.” Yes, that’s indeed historic. I can’t think of any other President who’s ever done such a thing, and I hope and pray that we will never again be cursed with another one who will.

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  • Gary Lee Phillips-Garcia

    08/31/2021 03:34 PM

    Question: I've read we had about 2,500 troops left in Afghanistan, intelligence and logistical support. If this is the case, why was there over $85B of equipment there? Were we going to leave it regardless? It doesn't make sense to have that much equipment there for 2,500 non-front line fighting troops. Please answer in either your morning or evening newsletters, I read both.

  • William Schlumpf

    08/31/2021 03:33 PM

    Well I for one don't believe we should have left Afghanistan given its strategic importance to China and that the radical terror threat had not been neutralized. Latest is that the administration is pressuring our allies to deny landing rights for rescue missions to extract us citizens. This whole process is either gross ineptitude or treasonous payback to China for the millioms of dollars In funny money to the Biden family. In time America will wake up hopefully before we all have to learn to speak mandarin .

  • Nitha Vos

    08/31/2021 03:29 PM

    I am disappointed in you Mike Huckabee. I believe I looked at all the videos included in your morning edition (Aug 31). I did NOT see a human body hanging from his neck. What I saw was the helicopter preparing to land a person onto the roof of some building. the body was hanging from the helicopter with attached around the mid section. The body was moving around and landed on the building; the person certainly was not dead. Maybe you looked at different videos. Please do not inflame people like this. What the Taliban does is bad enough without adding fuel to the fire.

  • Sandra Piver

    08/31/2021 03:24 PM

    Biden left 130 brave American dogs to be tortured, killed and then eaten.

    Where is PETA?

  • Linda Wolfe

    08/31/2021 03:07 PM

    It was certainly NOT incompetence on loco joe's part. Promise you, barack h. obama is making all of the decisions !! Who sent billions to iran ?, treated ISRAEL'S Prime Minister like garbage ?. Dis invited Franklin Graham for day of prayer? Who said " I have been to 57 states and have one more to go to ? (You would think a President would know how many states are in the USA ), Who had 2 muslim fathers & mother was atheist ? Who attended the UN-rev. wright's church who said "no, no, no, Not God Bless America, but , god damn America "?

  • ken moore

    08/31/2021 03:01 PM

    the tratitator could not wait till his chosen time line before abandoning americans and american supporters
    "8/31": What President Biden has done is a disgrace
    he needs to go before a firing squad on national tv or dropped down with the taliban they appreciate him more than the vets that have lost limbs

  • Anne Turner

    08/31/2021 02:59 PM

    Since the woke people are always comparing things to the Civil War or 9-11, as in worse than, etc. I would call this Afghanistan situation the saddest since those times. What can be sadder than people like me raised with pride in my country, raised by the “greatest generation” than to see this kind of ineptness, lack of leadership, cruelty, irresponsibility snd total incompetence from our government. The idea that we left Americans in country when we knew we were going to leave and also left many of those who helped us, is unbelievable. You folks who voted for this because you don’t like mean tweets and only watch mainstream media, are guilty of gross negligence. You knew, as well as I knew, that Mr. Biden was failing mentally and that Kamala is grossly unqualified, but you did it from hatred and not wanting to hear mean tweets. Each of you bears some responsibility for what will happen to the women of Afghanistan and to the rape of little girls by disgusting men. Dear Lord, please help me to forgive these people, Biden and his advisors, top military leadership and terrorists in Afghanistan, because I can’t do it on my own. Truly. I also blame Trump to a certain extend. His egotism kept him from toning it down a bit. It wouldn’t have taken him much to moderate his rhetoric to some extent and push him over the voting line. God bless .America and please help us to get out of this pit.

  • Mike Horst

    08/31/2021 02:20 PM

    Mike thank you again for your honest forthcoming commentary day in and day out. That said there are not words that can be said here to tell you the inter RAGE I am feeling against this CLOWN Biden who I will not call him President. I am soooo angry at the behavior I see from this criminal day in and day out. If I see him on television I will shut it off. Why? Because...Not only can I not stand the sight of him but I know that if his lips are moving, if he is breathing, he is lying, spinning or covering up whatever it is that he is thinking or alluding to. I am very sure from conversations I have had with many, many people that they are feeling the same way. I don't know how soon or what we have to do...Biden, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi and their cohorts must be eliminated ASAP. This is DEAD serious. These horrible Democrats are destroying this country!!!!!

  • Shauna dickerson

    08/31/2021 02:19 PM

    Wow, listening to Biden's 17 achievements on office is Very depressing. I Hate It. Do you think enough people are getting this message and understanding it? Or are more people just letting it fly over their heads. I wouldn't care except, what they will be suffering under Biden, I will also have to suffer, all the while understanding it, as they don't.

  • Lawrence Foster

    08/31/2021 02:12 PM

    It may be too soon to start listing the lessons of our 20 years in Afghanistan, but a couple are so obvious they need stating now.

    First, we left the Afghan military unequipped to go on without us, knowing that every few years the American electorate chooses some buffoon who knows nothing about military operations or foreign policy, and will end a military operation disastrously. We have tucked our tail and run from Vietnam, Somalia (although now we're back), Iraq and now Afghanistan Granted, none of the earlier surrenders - even Iraq - were as disastrously fouled up as this latest one.

    In 20 years, we trained Afghan pilots, special operations soldiers and infantrymen, but i am unaware of one single truck or aircraft mechanic trained by us. So when Sleazy Joe decided without consultation with any allies, and ignoring the advice of his military advisors, decided to suddenly end the contract to maintain aircraft and vehicles for the Afghan security services, the Afghan, military who we had re-created in our image, were immobilized. Then he had the gall to say they were unwilling to fight, in spite of the 77,000 Afghan who gave their lives in what should be our battle against terrorists.

    Lesson two is, don't let either the left or the right infiltrate and politicize our military. When Republicans return to Washington and control the White House and both houses once again. we need to have a thorough housecleaning of our senior military ranks, and we need to teach cadets at West Point, Annapolis and Colorado springs the tradition of a non-political military. The current crop of political hacks in the top ranks are disgusting.

    Finally we need to inculcate in the Washington civil service the concept that foreign policy is not a tricycle for children to learn how to ride; it is not a toy that a new administration takes off the shelf and "re-designs" without consultation with everyone. One of the impeachable offenses Joe Biden has committed is ignoring our allies. Public law (yes, when the NATO treaty was ratified by congress it became part of public law) requires consultation with our allies and Sleazy Joe ignored them and his military advisors, and waltzed off into rainbow flag la-la land all by himself.
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