“This is deadly serious. We do not want members to go,” Pelosi said last Wednesday, later adding, “We put out the word to committee chairs there ain’t gonna be no planes or this or that for people going to the region … We put an end to any thought that anybody was going there right away.”
McCarthy concurred, telling reporters that same day: “Any member that I’ve heard that might go, I explained to them that I don’t think they should. I think it creates a greater risk. You’ve got enough Americans over there. They could be held hostage [by the Taliban], they’d make a point out of [holding] a member of Congress. I think you’d take the military away from doing their job of getting as many Americans out as we can.”
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Mullin, 44, was first elected to Congress in 2012. He issued a statement Monday that called the conclusion of the Afghan withdrawal “a sad day for our country.”
“Americans have been stranded in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration and are now left to defend themselves from terrorists overrunning the country,” he said. “One motto of our military is ‘leave no man behind.’ But today, that’s exactly what President Biden did. American exit did not have to be this way and there must be accountability for this complete and utter failure. The service and sacrifice of our service members and their families was not made in vain, and it will never be forgotten.”
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The last communication US officials have from Mullin came on Monday when he reached the US ambassador to Tajikistan. His application was unusual in nature. He asked for a massive amount of cash to be sent into the nation, saying he planned on traveling into neighboring Afghanistan to save five American citizens, a woman, and her four children, stuck in the nation.
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Mullin had supposedly intended to use a helicopter to rescue American citizens. He described his plan as he was calling from Tbilisi, Georgia, and was flying into Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, barely hours later.
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To Mullin's dismay, the answer from the embassy was "no." They told the Republican Congressman that they could not break Tajikistan's cash limit laws and allow him to venture into one of the most hazardous places on earth. Mullin then supposedly threatened US Ambassador John Mark Pommersheim and his staff.
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