We all lose people in life, that is just part of the deal. We all lose grandparents and eventually parents, and that’s just the beginning. But people we lose through sicknesses and old age are by no means the same as those who are stolen away, as Biden did to a car full of kids. But instead of taking responsibility, as a good leader does, Biden tried to downplay his role in the drone strike he gave the OK on, and just said it was a tragedy… Psaki explained Biden’s perspective in a recent Press Briefing.
Q Following up on the drone strike last week that the Pentagon now admits was a tragic mistake: What was the President’s response when he learned about that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, the President was briefed on Friday morning about the report that was going to be released and put out. I would say first: The President’s view and all of our view is that the loss of any civilian life is a tragedy. As was made clear in the comments by the Secretary of Defense, by General McKenzie, this was done in error. And clearly, the investigation that will continue is something the President broadly supports.
So, as a human being, as a President, as somebody who has overseen loss in a variety of scenarios both as a leader and personally, it is — his reaction is it’s a tragedy, and every loss is a tragedy, and he supports the efforts to — the effort to move this forward as quickly as possible and to have a thorough investigation.
Q You mentioned there’s an ongoing investigation. Should it be anticipated that someone would be fired, demoted, not promoted, passed over, and held accountable within the military ranks for this?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think what’s important is that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman — and General McKenzie came forward and made very clear that this was — they wanted to see this move forward quickly, they want it to be as transparent as possible, they wanted to learn from what had happened.
It’s also important to note what the circumstances were here in — when this strike was made: This was a scenario where there were direct threats from ISIS-K against our troops who were on the ground in Afghanistan. And that was the scenario where the strike was made.
Obviously, it was done in error, and obviously, there was a horrific tragedy that happened, but I’m not going to predict what the impact will be.”
This reminds me of Unforgiven: “It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” This vehicle had 7 kids in it. This was not a vehicle with ISIS-k at the wheel and Biden should be taking full responsibility for it. He should be apologizing. The buck stops with him and he needs to understand that means he needs to apologize when things go sideways. I am sure he was not trying to kill kids, but he needs to take the L and make things as right as he can since he is the leader of our country, and he is supposed to be representing the American people.
We wouldn’t be in this position at all if Biden had just allowed our drone to kill the suicide bomber before he killed 13 of our marines. And that’s just our guys, that bombing also killed 60 Afghanis. If Biden’s not going to take the lead then he should resign.
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