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AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem

by Ellen KnickmeyerCalvin Woodward
| August 18, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ignored his own administration's failures Monday when he tried to explain why desperate civilians in Afghanistan's capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban because of the swift U.S. departure.

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