Joseph Biden actually said...

Let me be clear, leaving August the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline, it was designed to save American lives.

If there are American forces -- if there's American citizens left, we're going to stay there and we will get them all out.

It was time to end this war.

After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, I refused to send another generation of America's sons and daughters to fight a war that should have e...