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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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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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8/ What was Trump’s plan? Under Trump, the United States and the Taliban agreed in February 2020 to a May 2021 U.S. withdrawal deadline, with the Taliban pledging to stop attacks on foreign forces and to enter negotiations with the Afghan government. — PolitiTweet.org

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