Dems are going to wish they hadn’t set that impeachment precedent for something as trivial as that Ukraine call, because this is SO much worse. Remember when whistleblowers were a sign of courage, and the only just response to their accusations was to impeach a sitting President for a phone call to a foreign leader? Let’s see if media types (and other Democrats) still feel the same way in light of the grenade that just landed in their lap. Joe Biden has always been an absolute incompetent. That’s hardly a surprise to anyone. But despite some whoppers he’s told over the years — including plagiarized speeches — he’s always been able to tapdance his way around any accusations of being a coldhearted, cynical, backstabbing liar. With Joe Biden throwing everyone but himself under the bus for the colossal failure of his Afghanistan surrender, the folks who know where the bodies are buried have stopped protecting him. Nobody wants to be the poor slob left holding the bag when oversight starts demanding answers. Nobody thinks THEIR political career is the expendable one. Thirteen needlessly dead Americans seem to have been the final straw. Now the leaks have begun. Everything Joe Biden and his loyalist Military Brass have been solemnly telling us about Afghanistan from behind official-looking podiums have been demonstrable lies. By ‘everything’ we mean… everything. Right down to ‘the’, ‘but’, and ‘and’. Even the commas are questionable. Reuters has decided to break from the pack and do some honest-to-God reporting, coming up with a bootleg audio and transcript of Biden’s last call to President Ghani back on July 23rd. Reuters reviewed a transcript of the presidential phone call and has listened to the audio to authenticate the conversation. The materials were provided on condition of anonymity by a source who was not authorized to distribute it. In the call, Biden offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling situation in Afghanistan. “We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is,” Biden said. Days before the call, the U.S. carried out air strikes to support Afghan security forces, a move the Taliban said was in violation of the Doha peace agreement. The U.S. president also advised Ghani to get buy-in from powerful Afghans for a military strategy going forward, and then to put a “warrior” in charge of the effort, a reference to Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi. Biden lauded the Afghan armed forces, which were trained and funded by the U.S. government. “You clearly have the best military,” he told Ghani. “You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well.” Days later, the Afghan military started folding across provincial capitals in the country with little fight against the Taliban. In much of the call, Biden focused on what he called the Afghan government’s “perception” problem. “I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.” Biden told Ghani that if Afghanistan’s prominent political figures were to give a press conference together, backing a new military strategy, “that will change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think.” —Reuters