A new House GOP Foreign Affairs Committee report blamed President Joe Biden for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, including the deaths of 13 service members that occurred during the operation.
Panel Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on Face the Nation about the withdrawal, "It could have been prevented if the State Department did its job by law and executed the plan of evacuation. They left these 13 service men and women hanging out to dry."
It has been a frequent criticism of the pullout by Republicans, and now it has been codified less than 60 days before the election.
Democrats, of course, disagreed with the finding.
Former President Donald Trump has directly blamed Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for being involved in the disastrous pullout.
"Caused by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the humiliation in Afghanistan set off the collapse of American credibility and respect all around the world," he said.
Harris has said she was the last person in the room when decisions about Afghanistan were being made, but Democrats are trying to ignore this statement and claim she wasn't involved.
Some military officials have blamed Trump for the disaster, saying he "set up" the takeover of the country by the Taliban by giving too much ground during negotiations with them while he was in office.
Blaming Trump, however, doesn't exactly ring true.
After all, Biden had every ability to delay the pullout until they could get the Taliban out of power or at least get Americans out of the country instead of leaving thousands of them there to deal with the fallout alone.
Instead, Biden decided to force the pullout to meet an artificial deadline, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Chaos ensued, and Biden's poll numbers began to fall when 13 service members were killed in a suicide bombing at the tiny Kabul airport where U.S. and Afghan civilians and military personnel were being evacuated.
House Republicans are wielding what little power they have to influence voters with the report--a David against the Goliath mainstream media operation that has tried valiantly to transform an unpopular Harris into a viable presidential candidate.
The latest New York Times/Siena College poll shows that Harris's short-lived bump is all but gone, with Trump a point ahead in the general election and several swing states.
