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Ted Cruz: “They ordered the troops out with no, no level of competence.”

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Terror Comes to America from Biden Afghan Terrorists

Published | Video Starts at 02:38

They pulled out of Afghanistan, if you remember. They pulled out. They wanted to be out by September 11th, the 20th anniversary of September 11th. And so They ordered the troops out with no, no level of competence. no level. The military told them, look, we need sufficient troop levels to at least do the Evacuation. We need sufficient troop levels to have a secure evacuation at Bagram airfield that we had spent billions of dollars building. (02:38–02:44)

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Asserts that the Biden administration ordered troops out of Afghanistan incompetently.

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