An Open Letter to Congressman Owens Requesting the Removal of President Biden from Office

September 1, 2021

The Honorable Burgess Owens

1039 Longworth House Office Building 

Washington, DC 20515     

                                                                                                   

Dear Congressman Owens,

I had the solemn honor and profound privilege of attending the candlelight vigil on the steps of the Utah state capitol building this last Sunday night to honor the life and ultimate sacrifice paid by Utah’s own Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover.  Unless I am mistaken, I am fairly certain that I noticed you from a distance in attendance of this solemn vigil along with hundreds of other good people as well.  As a constituent that voted for you, I thank you for that, sir.  As the crowd spontaneously sang patriotic songs together and read the names of those killed in the recent homicide bombing in Kabul as we waited for SSGT Hoover’s family to arrive, I knew that as tragic as his and the other military members’ deaths are, they are not in vain.  I would be willing to bet that most Americans from all political perspectives appreciate and honor those sacrifices.

All of that said, I cannot help but think that those deaths and the deaths of 170 Afghan people were needless and preventable.  Further those deaths are a direct result of the feckless, irresponsible, and foolish policies of President Biden as he proceeded with unnecessary alacrity to be out of Afghanistan by 9/11/2021 as a matter of optics in order to garner favorable press coverage of a “historic ending” of the war.

Now good people from both sides of the argument can debate the necessity of finally pulling out our troops from Afghanistan after twenty years; however, the manner in which this expedited draw down has been executed almost surely invited this inevitable response from terrorists within Afghanistan.  Because of this, I don’t fault President Biden for pulling out, but rather I do condemn him for the utterly indefensible way in which he executed this withdrawal.

He removed all support from our Afghan allies, often with no notification whatsoever.  He surrendered Bagram air base outside the city of Kabul, which would have been far easier to defend against enemies.  He ignored accurate intelligence reports that indicated that the Taliban would likely capture strategic locations and cities with great swiftness.  He did not inform, let alone consult with our allies in Afghanistan regarding the accelerated withdrawal, and he left over 85 billion dollars of taxpayer’s aircraft, vehicles, drones, weaponry, and ancillary equipment for the Taliban to capture and use – likely against us or our allies in the future. 

To exacerbate matters, he has left Americans and Afghan allies behind and at the mercy of the terroristic Taliban regime, in sharp contradiction to his repeated promises to not do so.  He did this after providing the names of certain American and Afghan individuals to the Taliban to escort to the airport.  What he did was effectively provide a kill list to a group that is recognized as terroristic in nature throughout the world.  The ramifications and repercussions of this foolishly executed withdrawal will be felt and realized in the decades to come accordingly, I strongly suspect.

President Biden repeatedly has told us that the “adults are back” and in charge and as such he promised to reach out to our allies. He had excoriated President Trump for “going it alone” and promised to include allies in his decision-making. Unfortunately, he chose to do the opposite with a unilateral decision and an arbitrary pullout date, leaving our allies to effectively fend for themselves against the tender mercies of the Taliban and the other terrorist organizations they harbor. Our allies will most assuredly be very hesitant in joining or supporting future necessary American military endeavors when future threats are realized under this administration’s “leadership.”  

As a case in point, one of America’s oldest and most reliable allies, the United Kingdom, had its parliament soundly condemn President Biden specifically because of his actions regarding this travesty.

Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage, summed up Britain’s current demeanor towards our nation in an interview with Glenn Beck this last week.

Farage stated, "You know, I've spent 40 years working for American companies and businesses, being allies, politically, with Donald Trump and many friends of the Republican Party. There's nobody this side of the pond who is more pro-American, more pro-respectful relationship than I am," Farage told Glenn. "And it hurts me to say this, but for Biden to unconditionally withdraw from the military mission after 20 years, without any planning or any foresight as to how we get our nationals out in the case of a Taliban advance, and to do it without even consulting the British prime minister, and refusing to answer his phone call for almost 48 hours, sends a message to us. And the message is, we cannot trust America.

"Despite being our closest partner for over 100 years, we cannot trust America with this man in charge. And it's a sad realization, but it's true. And I think it's even further than the relationship with the UK and the USA. I think NATO, frankly, ceases to function. So, the damage that Biden has done to America's international reputation could not be greater," he added.

“And, of course, when you look at those photographs today, of Taliban soldiers now dressed in American military equipment with $85 billion worth of U.S. military hardware now in the hands of these people, with the giant lithium reserves that exist in Afghanistan now completely open to exploitation with Communist China, and warnings coming in the UK today that our terrorism threat is now going up directly as a result of what has happened in Afghanistan ... believe me, Glenn, this is on every level a disaster."

Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea are all paying attention to this disastrous debacle that need not have been.  China has already been saber-rattling towards Taiwan after observing President Biden’s latest foray in surrender realpolitik.  Indeed, in a recent editorial by The Global Times, a state-affiliated tabloid newspaper published by the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, The People’s Daily, stated, “The situation in Afghanistan suddenly saw a radical change after the country was abandoned by the US. And Washington just left despite the worsening situation in Kabul. Is this some kind of omen for Taiwan’s future fate?”

Our weakness as portrayed to the entirety of the world by President Biden, only emboldens despots, terrorists, and enemy regimes throughout the globe.  Indeed, the precursor to 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan occurred because President Clinton tucked tail and ran after the Blackhawk down incident in Mogadishu, Somalia.  This was noticed by none other than Osama bin Laden who mockingly called America “a paper tiger”.  The horrific attacks on 9/11 were a result of that.  This is the legacy that Biden is creating once again by failing to learn from our not-too-distant past.

One would think that after twenty years of fighting in Afghanistan, our unparalleled military would be well-positioned and heavily fortified to affect an orderly and relatively incident free withdrawal from the Afghan theater, and indeed they easily could have done so if they had been allowed.  America should have started by evacuating all American civilians, Afghan SIV allies, and our coalition allies first.  A draw down of surplus and unnecessary military equipment could have been transported out next or destroyed in place as was prudent.  The last people out should have been our armed forces.  This would have facilitated our continuing support of the Afghan government and military with necessary intelligence, supplies, and as required, targeted strikes and air support to prevent the takeover by the Taliban or other terrorists.

Our President Biden, however, decided against such a phased withdrawal.  He failed to prepare the Afghan government to sustain itself in the absence of U.S. forces, and he failed to coordinate with our coalition allies in the draw down.  Instead, President Joseph Biden decided we’d just pull our military out, ahead of U.S. civilians and allies, all the while declaring that we would leave no one behind.

Your colleague, Congressman Andy Biggs, said it well recently when he stated, “We believe that he (Secretary of State Blinken) has got culpability for much of the travesty that has gone on here.”  He continued, “We’ve also called for resignations of various leaders. We are joined, for instance, in our call for resignations of Secretary Austin and Gen. Milley by [87 retired generals and admirals].”

“We also call upon the person that said ‘the buck stops here,’ who said more than 20 times we will not leave any American behind,” Biggs stated. “The person who basically orchestrated the July 2 evacuation of Bagram [Airfield in Afghanistan] without telling Afghanis, we call upon—most somberly—the resignation of this president, Joe Biden.”

Joe Biden as President of the United States of America has sworn a solemn oath to defend our nation and its constitution.  His primary duty as president is to ensure as much as humanly possible the very safety of our citizens.  Because President Biden refused to faithfully execute such duties, it is now incumbent upon him to step down from office.  If he refuses, I implore that you join with other Americans in congress to either invoke a 25^th amendment remedy to remove him from office, or failing that, to support articles of impeachment accordingly, sir.

I am under no delusions thinking that Speaker Pelosi will even bring such legislation to the House floor for consideration, especially since the Democrats refused to consider a bill to ensure no Americans were left behind in Afghanistan as President Biden promised.  Regardless of the left’s refusal to do the honorable and the right thing, it is incumbent upon the rest of us Americans to do all that is within our power to bring home our fellow Americans when our own President refuses to do so.  The first step in this process is to remove President Biden from office.  I implore you to ensure this happens in whatever legal and moral capacity you have to affect this necessary change, sir.

President Biden has repeatedly lied during this self-created crisis that resulted in hundreds of people being killed that would like be alive today if a well-executed draw down had been instituted.  President Biden has soiled American honor by ignoring our allies and leaving Americans behind in a now-hostile country.  Such displayed cowardice and incompetence are unworthy of America and unworthy of its leader.  Because of the actions of President Biden, America is seen as unreliable and faithless by our allies and most Americans, I dare say.  Our nation is better than this.  Staff Sergeant Hoover and the rest of the military members and innocent Afghanis killed as a direct result of President Biden’s ill-conceived plan and incompetence deserved better.  As we will surely reap what President Biden has sown with future attacks on American soil via our open borders, I request in the strongest of terms to please work within the constitutional rule of law with your colleagues to ensure that America is protected and her honor restored by removing President Biden from office.

Respectfully,

Darrell Michaels

Sandy, Utah

Jocko Willink's "If I Were President..." Speech

This short video is from John "Jocko" Willink regarding the speech that a real American president should be delivering to America, Afghanistan, allies, friends, and the Taliban and other enemies throughout the world... and then following through on his stated actions accordingly.   

I won't hold my breath that the head of the Biden crime family will do any such thing as I hear he is headed down to the local Ben and Jerry's for more ice cream as twelve of our Marines were killed today.

From Wikipedia:

"John Gretton "Jocko" Willink (born September 8, 1971)^[2] is an American author, podcaster, and retired United States Navy officer who served in the Navy SEALs.

His military service included combat actions in the Iraq War, where he commanded SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser, the unit that fought in the battle against the Iraqi insurgents in Ramadi. Willink was honored with the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medal for his service. He achieved the rank of lieutenant commander."

H/T: Gary S.

The Biden-Created Crisis in Afghanistan

 I have not been this enraged in years.  Wasn’t Biden touting how his administration would be bringing the “adults” back in the room and that they would be the ones that would “build back better”?  Now I think, and probably most Americans agree, that we needed to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and close that chapter in our history; however, the sheer incompetence, recklessness, and stupidity of the withdrawal that Biden has executed has endangered Americans, allies and NGO’s, and thousands of Afghanis that trusted and supported America whom are now being left behind to be slaughtered or worse by the evil Taliban bastards.   

“I stand squarely behind my decision,” Biden said in his televised address after being reluctantly yanked from his Camp David vacation. “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”  And so far, Biden has steadfastly stood by his decision for the hasty withdrawal while declaring that the “buck stops with him” right before going on to blame Trump, faulty intelligence, the Afghan president and army, and anyone else he could come up with for the horrific collapse of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban.  On Monday, Biden blamed Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani for convincing him that the Afghan army would stand up and fight. 

Even Biden’s sycophantic allies in the Democrat Industrialized Media (DIM) like CNN’s Jake Tapper are seemingly turning on him as Tapper reported, "The president said that the buck stopped with him but, in fact, this speech was full of finger pointing and blame."

There are even some congressional Democrats, such as Mark Warner D-VA that are not pleased with Biden’s handling of the situation.

“As the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I hope to work with the other committees of jurisdiction to ask tough but necessary questions about why we weren’t better prepared for a worst-case scenario involving such a swift and total collapse of the Afghan government and security forces. We owe those answers to the American people and to all those who served and sacrificed so much.”

Only a month ago, when asked about intelligence services‘ warning that Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban, Biden denied that was likely the case.  Indeed, Biden vehemently insisted that we would not see a repeat of helicopters pulling hordes from a U.S. Embassy similar to Saigon in 1975.

“The Taliban is not the south—the North Vietnamese army,” Biden said. “They’re not—they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”

Exacerbating the matter, Biden seemingly had minimal consultation with his own Pentagon, let alone allies before rolling out this decision with such alacrity.  Consequently, many NATO allies feel misused by the Biden administration. Biden promised to consult with allies, yet he made a unilateral decision to retreat from Afghanistan. Many NATO countries saw their citizens’ lives put at risk and their efforts wasted. They blame Biden.  The UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, was basically ghosted by Biden for over 36 hours as the chaos was ensuing.  This is not how the adults in the room should be treating our most loyal ally. 

Because of Biden’s callous neglect to inform our allies of the particulars of his retreat plan, on Wednesday, the British Houses of Parliament decided to hold Biden’s handling of the situation in contempt, with lawmakers condemning his withdrawal plan as “catastrophic” and “shameful,” according to The Telegraph.  Other liberal members of parliament, including Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer and Labour MPs Chris Bryant and Khalid Mahmood, denounced the president as well.

“The Biden government have just come in and, without looking at what is happening on the ground, have taken a unilateral decision, throwing us and everybody else to the fire,” Mahmood said.

Lord Howard, a former Tory leader, described Biden’s withdrawal as “a catastrophic mistake which may well prove to be the defining legacy of his presidency.”

Political scientist and foreign policy expert Walter Russell Mead writes that the Biden administration will now have to deal with the “worst-handled foreign-policy crisis since the Bay of Pigs and the most devastating blow to American prestige since the fall of Saigon.”

At least President John F. Kennedy took “sole responsibility” for the Bay of Pigs disaster, rather than blaming his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower.

“It’s an utter disgrace and an extreme loss of prestige [for] the United States that President [Joe] Biden allowed this to happen,” says Luke Coffey, a veteran of the Afghanistan War who directs The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy.

When Osama bin Laden first attacked America, he decried that the United States was nothing more than a paper tiger. Now, twenty years later, others will take up that rallying cry. After all, today the Taliban controls more territory in Afghanistan than it did on 9/11. The calls for the renewal of the global terrorist jihad will begin once again due to Biden’s foolishness and short-sightedness.  With our wide- open southern border, the opportunities for future attacks on our own soil have now become far more likely.

And it’s not just our adversaries in the Middle East that have been emboldened by Biden’s stupidity. Consider this editorial in China’s Global Times, the Communist Party’s main English-language propaganda mouthpiece, with a message to Taiwan: “From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and the US military won’t come to help.”

Even former President George W. Bush, who has seldom uttered any criticism regarding his successors to the oval office issued a statement.

Bush said he was “afraid Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm” as a result of the withdrawal.

“I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. And I’m sad. Laura and I spent a lot of time with Afghan women. And they’re scared,” he said,

“I think about all the interpreters and people that helped — not only U.S. troops, but NATO troops — and they’re just, it seems like they’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people,” Bush said.

“And it breaks my heart.”

“The United States government has the legal authority to cut the red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crises. And we have the responsibility and the resources to secure safe passage for them now, without bureaucratic delay. Our most stalwart allies, along with private NGOs, are ready to help,” Bush added.

And yet, Biden’s administration has left thousands of Americans, allies, and Afghani supporters stranded outside of Kabul’s airport trying desperately to get past Taliban checkpoints.  Not only is this an utter disgrace, but it is morally repugnant and despicable to leave friends at the mercy of such evil people. 

My anger and disgust at Biden’s ineptitude and callousness was only intensified as I read reports and watched videos of people desperately clinging to an Air Force C-17 aircraft as it took off, showing people falling from the plane after it ascended into the sky.  The sheer fear and panic as the Taliban closed around innocent people in Kabul must have been overwhelming.  Indeed, there are even pictures of an Afghani woman raising her baby up to a U.S. Marine standing on a wall outside the Kabul airport in order that her child might be saved as she was presumably to be left behind.

Our Afghani friends that supported us in our war on terrorism in their country are terrified as they know what awaits them as the United States pulls out under Biden’s orders.

In Shir Khan Bandar, a port city on the border with Tajikistan, an order went out instructing local imams to provide a list of unmarried women and widows, beginning at age 15, so they can be “married” off to Taliban commanders. In Kandahar province, Taliban fighters tortured and then murdered a popular comic named Nazar Mohammad. When asked Sunday whether the Taliban would return to meting out medieval punishments like amputation and stoning, a spokesman for the terror group said it would be up to the Islamic courts.

In an official statement issued this week, leaders in the underground Afghanistan church told missionary group Frontier Alliance International that Christians are being targeted for execution:

“The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill. The US Embassy is defunct and there is no longer a safe place for believers to take refuge. All borders to neighboring countries are closed and all flights to and from have been halted, with the exception of private planes. People are fleeing into the mountains looking for asylum. They are fully reliant on God, who is the only One who can and will protect them.

“The Taliban are going door-to-door taking women and children. The people must mark their house with an "X" if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked, they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older has been found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.

“Husbands and fathers have given their wives and daughters guns and told them that when the Taliban come, they can choose to kill them or kill themselves—it is their choice.”

In the midst of the Vietnam War, during one of the many moments when America was potentially set to betray the South Vietnamese side, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that if we did, “the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

This is the fatal legacy that Biden’s decision has wrought.

Yes, we needed to eventually withdraw from Afghanistan; however, it should have been done with in-depth consultation and coordination with our military commanders and our allies also in country there.  The loyal Afghanis, Americans, NGOs, and allies should have been largely evacuated prior to our military’s withdrawal.  We absolutely should have taken or destroyed any armament or vehicles so that they could not be captured by the Taliban.  And we should have done this process right as winter began so as to give us more time and slow down the movements of the Taliban.

Due to whatever senility-caused reasoning Biden used in forming this decision, he has condemned thousands of would-be friends to death or worse at the hands of the Taliban.  From wokeness to weakness, Biden has shown he is not fit to lead our nation.  Our people know it.  Our allies know it.  And the Afghani people we have betrayed sure as hell know it.  Biden has betrayed our standing in the world, turned his back on our allies, and made our nation far less safe in the long run by emboldening our enemies.  For these reasons, Joe Biden should be removed from office either by impeachment for failing to live up to his duties as commander and chief, or by invoking the 25^th amendment due to his obvious cognitive impairment when it comes to making such tremendous life and death decisions.   

Either way, Joe Biden needs to take his sorrowful legacy and leave the oval office… NOW.