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Ted Cruz: “The evacuation at a Kabul National Airport... tragically…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Terror Comes to America from Biden Afghan Terrorists

Published | Video Starts at 03:10

But the Biden political operative said, no, we want the number down to 2500 troops by a date certain. And so they abandoned Bagram. They just gave it to the Taliban. They did The evacuation at a Kabul National Airport... tragically resulted in 13 servicemen and women being murdered. and women being murdered because of those decisions and the incompetence and the ideology. And understand, it was both. It was incompetence, to be sure, but it was also ideology that they refused to recognize. (03:10–03:21)

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Asserts that the Kabul airport evacuation resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.

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