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Biden says he’s leaving Trump ‘strong hand to play,' defends his record on Afghanistan
Biden gave his last major foreign policy speech from the State Department on Monday
 By Caitlin McFall Fox News
Published January 13, 2025 3:40pm EST

President Biden on Monday spoke for the last time from the State Department on the state of American foreign policy and national security following his four-year term set to conclude in one week when President-elect Donald Trump will once again take up the top job.

Biden did not specifically address or name the inbound president, but he referenced the prior, and incoming, Trump administration and touted that he is leaving a "strong hand to play."

The president listed off a number of major nations of top geopolitical importance to U.S. national security, but he also referenced the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan – which has been among the president’s most heavily criticized policy decisions and which resulted in the death of 13 American service members and roughly 140 Afghan civilians ISIS-K launched an attack on those evacuating at Abbey Gate.

"[I am] the first president in decades who's not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor," Biden said.

The president pointed to the 2011 assassination of 9/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, during the Obama administration and said he assessed that large numbers of American forces were no longer needed when he took up office. 

"So when I took office, I had a choice – only I saw no reason to keep thousands of servicemen in Afghanistan," he added. "In my view, it was time to end the war and bring our troops home, and we did."

This is a developing story.

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As usual it was nothing but lies..
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LIEden needs to move into the dementia ward of an ALF or SNF.
I am not and never have been a leftist.

If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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LIEden needs to move into the dementia ward of an ALF or SNF.

I'm sure Mama Jill already has a place picked out for him.  I hate to say it, but throughout his presidency she hasn't shown a whole lot of compassion for him. 

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As usual it was nothing but lies..


What a person could understand of his speech. And add in the shouting and whispering. **nononono*

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