Trump blasts Biden for Sept. 11 troop withdrawal and says, 'We can and should get out earlier'
by Jake Dima, Breaking News Reporter |
| April 18, 2021 02:07 PM
Former President Donald Trump slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for not withdrawing troops earlier and using Sept. 11 for something other than a "day of reflection."
His comments follow President Joe Biden's decision earlier in the week to phase out U.S. forces in the embattled region by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Democrat's move broke with a Trump-era agreement signed between Trump and the Taliban that required the full U.S. troop withdrawal by May 1.
"I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons," Trump said in an email statement. "First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and way too long. I made early withdraw possible by already pulling much of our billions of dollars of equipment out and, more importantly, reducing our military presence to less than 2,000 troops from the 16,000 level that was there (likewise in Iraq, and zero troops in Syria except for the area where we KEPT THE OIL)."
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