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6/ Why did the U.S. not evacuate civilians earlier? Biden said some Afghans did not want to leave "And part of it was because the Afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, ‘a crisis of confidence’." — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ How many lives were lost? The Costs of War project’s analysis estimated that 241,000 people died directly as a result of the war. Most were Afghans. The largest number of deaths were for the national military and police, followed by opposition fighters and then civilians. https://t.co/mRMT29LuvD — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ It’s possible that some Afghans didn’t want to leave, but Biden omits that there was a backlog of Afghan interpreters who had already applied to leave. In July there were approximately 18,000 Afghan applicants to the Special Immigrant Visa process as of May. — PolitiTweet.org

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