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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Biden honors 9/11 victims; vows commitment to thwart terror
By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
32 Comments
rcch
You will never be forgotten.
sakurasuki
August 30th, 2021, it's all over news? Any date for Iraq, this article even doesn't mention that country at all.
What Iraqi really did to deserve all tragic loss.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/iraqi
More Iraqi died after occupation than during dictator period.
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-life-in-iraq-was-like-under-saddam-hussein-2014-7
lincolnman
A respect and honor-filled ceremony conducted with grace....thank you President Biden....
What a comparison to the dunce who claimed he watched "thousands of Muslims cheer in New Jersey" on 9/11...
Bob Fosse
Good to again see a Commander in Chief not afraid of a little rain.
Nemo
It’s almost like Mitch forgot who negotiated that deal with the Taliban…
wallace
It was Obama who took out Bin Laden, in May 2011. Biden was the VP. President Biden took out his number two, Ayman al-Zawahri in July. Biden should have handled the Afghan exit better.
bass4funk
Most definitely, that is more than an understatement.
wallace
The Afghan exit was started by Trump and his deal but was voted out of his office leaving the job to Biden. It was never going to be easy after 20 years.
Trump wouldn't have done any better.
wallace
Good to again see "a" Commander in Chief not afraid of a little rain.
bass4funk
And later executed televised and ended on Biden's watch.
wallace
Trump refused the American fallen troops in France because it was raining on his parade. Nov 10, 2018. I wonder if it rained on the day the troops died?
bass4funk
Why are you making this about Trump? It has nothing to do with Trump, off topic.
Bob Fosse
Read the article, he’s directly referenced.
Jimizo
Biden is good in situations like this. He’s a man who’s felt truly tragic loss.
painkiller
wallaceToday 09:21 am JST
This has nothing to do with this article.
This is a day for Americans to remember the losses of 9/11; why is making irrelevant comments here tolerated?
Bob Fosse
Surely you are aware that hundreds of foreign nationals also died on 9/11.
Nemo
Because Mitch McConnel decided to go "there."
It would be nice if this were not a finger-pointing day, but since Mitch decided to point a finger (probably because he is about to get a butt-whipping in the Mid-term Senate elections) those of us who remember what actually happened are going to point one right back.
wallace
bass4funk
Try reading the article.
wallace
painkiller
How many non-Americans, like British and Japanese were also killed on that day? The queen at Buckingham Palace on the day ordered the troops to play the American National Anthem. A first for that.
372 people from 102 countries besides the United States died.
wallace
The conspiracy stories still spin today on who bombed the World Trade Center. My family was there on the day and survived.
The Avenger
It was Navy SEAL Team 6 who took out Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
On August 6, 2011, insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter in Afghanistan, killing all 38 people on board, including 15 Navy SEALS from Team Six’s Gold Squadron.
bass4funk
Interesting, so the left wants to give credit to Biden when and if there is something that he supposedly does somewhat well, but refuses to blame him for something that he's directly caught in screwing up. Take what good you can get and don't take the bad.
Interesting.....
Exactly.
Bob Fosse
I didn’t see ‘the left’ mentioned anywhere in the article.
Harry_Gatto
The WTC was destroyed by Saudi Arabian terrorists who entered the USA unchallenged, learned to fly passenger aircraft at US flight schools showing little or no interest in how to land or take off and nobody saw anything wrong. They then boarded commercial flights as passengers whilst carrying weapons.
I'm glad to hear that your family was unharmed.
wallace
President Obama was the Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces when Obama was captured and killed.
President Biden was the Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces when Ayman al-Zawahri was killed.
bass4funk
Doesn't need to, the entire nation knows he's a Democrat....
Come again?
Trump was Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces when he put El Bagdadi and Soleimani to rest.
wallace
bass4funk
I do not disagree. It's Al Baghdadi. He blew himself and his children up. Was not involved with 9/11.
Soleimani was not involved with 9/11.
Stay on topic, please.
bass4funk
And It was Osama, not "Obama."
He was still a terrorist sworn to kill Americans, so at least he prevented one of THE most powerful and elusive, and revered Jihadists from growing their Caliphate and expanding their terrorist cell, and avoiding another possible 9/11
But he was involved in Killing many, many of our soldiers and even soldiers that fought in Afghanistan
wallace
When Biden gave his speech in Pennsylvania, about 50 minutes, he only mentioned Trump once.
painkiller
“We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden said. “Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.”
This is a good thing for Biden to say..
the war concluded chaotically in August 2021, when the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops
This was a bad thing that happened on Biden's watch.
painkiller
He also vowed that the nation will “never fail to meet the sacred obligation to you to properly prepare and equip those that we send into harm’s way and care for those and their families when they come home — and to never, ever, ever forget.”
Gotta give credit to that speech writer---well done.
And Biden is certainly accomplished at reading those cards.
Umbrella holder did a great job preventing the ink from running.