Of the numerous lies Kamala Harris told the American people on Tuesday night during her first presidential debate against President Donald Trump, one of the most insulting lies was when she lectured about American men and women serving in combat zones.
When questioned about one of the most disastrous failures in US history – Biden-Harris Afghanistan surrender and withdrawal from Afghanistan – Kamala bragged that there are no American men and women serving in a combat zone today.
Kamala was asked, “Do you take any responsibility for the 13 lives that were lose in the evacuation of Afghanistan?”
Kamala turned it into a bag of lies ending with this…
Kamala Harris: As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world. The first time in…
US Military men serving in a combat zone were watching this in real-time. Their reaction was perfection! What a take-down.
For the record, the US has foreign bases in 98 countries around the globe including active war zones and dangerous regions in the Middle East including Israel, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Pakistan.
In 2023 NBC News reported that at least 45 Americans were injured in attacks in Syria and Iraq. Two dozen service members may have suffered traumatic brain injuries in 2023 attack alone. Americans are not only serving in dangerous areas and war zones, they are still being injured and killed.
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Outraged family members of US troops hurt in the line of duty slammed Kamala Harris’ brazen claim that no Americans are serving in war zones — a statement which flies in the face of her own administration’s official list of active combat zones.
As many as 50,000 US service members currently patrolling countries and oceans across the Middle East and Africa are receiving either “hostile fire” or “imminent danger pay,” monthly payments of up to $225 for troops deployed in areas where they could easily be subjected to — or do come under — enemy attack, retired Army Col. and military analyst Jonathan Sweet told The Post.
Yet during Tuesday’s ABC debate with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the vice president to make it seem as if the Harris-Biden administration has heralded in a period of peace not seen in decades — and that all American military members are safe.
“As of today there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century,” she insisted before a TV audience of 67 million.
Earlier in the debate, Trump warned that the United States is “playing with World War III” by allowing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to continue.
He has long argued that during his presidency he kept international rivals at bay, and that Russia would not have dared to invade Ukraine, nor Hamas assault civilians in Israel, on his watch.
Brad Illerbrunner was not buying Harris’ claims of peace.
His son, Chief Warrant Officer Garrett Illerbrunner of the US Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division, was critically injured in Iraq on Christmas Day.
A drone launched by the terror organization Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups struck the Erbil Air Base in Iraq where Garrett was stationed.
Shrapnel struck Garrett in the head, nearly killing him and leaving him disabled. Two other soldiers were wounded.
The angry dad said Harris’ wild claims “really [hit] below the belt. . . . She doesn’t even recognize that our own troops are getting hurt.”
“We’re still in war zones,” he added bluntly, adding Harris was “trying to snow the public.”
A month after the attack that critically injured Illerbrunn, three Army Reserve Soldiers were killed and 34 other troops injured by a drone strike launched by Iran-backed militants at US base in Jordan known as Tower 22.
And in mid-August, seven US Soldiers were hurt during a joint raid with Iraqi forces in Western Iraq that killed 15 ISIS terrorists, who were armed with grenades and explosive “suicide” belts.
The vice president’s claims on the debate stage offended wide swaths of the military community because they fail “a basic kind of smell test,” said Michael DiMino, a fellow at the think tank Defense Priorities.
“If you’re in Jordan in the middle of nowhere to fight ISIS, and you’re getting attacked by Iranian drones and rockets on a daily basis, you’re in a war zone,” he said.
Harris was trying “to finagle a wording . . . to make a point we’re not engaged in all these conflicts — which we are,” he added.
“Those quibbling qualifiers ignore the fact American men and women in uniform are getting shot at on daily basis, and many just in the last eight months have died or been injured.”
The US currently has roughly 2,500 troops stationed in Iraq and another 1,000 in Syria as part of the US-led international efforts to eliminate the Islamic State, known as Operation Inherent Resolve.
Iraq is among nearly two dozen areas designated as “combat zones” by the Harris-Biden administration’s own IRS, which allows soldiers to receive tax exemptions for serving in “hostile areas … [including] actual combat areas, direct combat support areas and qualified hazardous duty areas.”
Kammy can’t find her own ass with two hands, a map, and a compass. Don’t expect an intelligent response on foreign policy.