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During Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, he spoke about supporting veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who have been dying from injuries sustained from their service.
As Biden noted that deceased service members are placed in flag-draped coffins, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado erupted.
“You put them in, 13 of them,” she yelled. Democrats immediately booed her in response.
During Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, 13 US service members were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport.
The attack killed one Navy corpsman, ten Marines, and two Army soldiers. Most of them were either 20 years old or in their early twenties. 25-year-old female Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo was among them.
Watch the clip of Rep. Boebert:
Biden references fallen US soldiers returning home in a flag-draped coffin.
From the audience: "13 of them!" pic.twitter.com/RS3Qfhhi7a
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 2, 2022
Matt Fuller of the left-wing outlet, The Daily Beast, reported that “Democrats boo her”:
Lauren Boebert just said "You put them in, 13 of them."
Democrats boo her.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) March 2, 2022
More on this story via Western Journal:
The House chamber was filled with boos following Boebert’s exclamation.
Biden appears to have ignored Boebert’s remark, instead continuing on with his speech. One source quoted Boebert as accusing Biden of having put the troops into a dangerous situation.
Thirteen service members, including 11 Marines, one Army Soldier, and a Navy Corpsman were killed in the ISIS bombing of the airport.
The service members were at the scene to facilitate the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Afghan asylum seekers. Only a small minority of Afghans airlifted from the country amid its capitulation to the Taliban worked with the American military during its occupation of the country.
Biden was intensely criticized for his handling of the military’s departure from Afghanistan, which led to the Taliban seizing millions of dollars in American military equipment.
The U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed as the American military left, with Afghans proving unable and unwilling to fight for their country’s independence from the Taliban.
