Joe Biden, the same guy who used dogs as political props at the White House, allowed this to happen.
American citizens and Afghan allies weren’t all the Biden administration left behind in its retreat from Afghanistan.
The U.S. military abandoned its contracted working dogs, according to a statement Monday night by a major animal-welfare group.
American Humane condemned the effective “death sentence” that the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul in favor of the Islamist Taliban militia has spelled for contract working dogs.
“These brave dogs do the same dangerous, lifesaving work as our military working dogs, and deserved a far better fate than the one to which they have been condemned,” said Robin R. Ganzert, American Humane’s president and CEO.
“It sickens us to sit idly by and watch these brave dogs who valiantly served our country be put to death or worse,” he said.
American Humane, which has trained and rescued service animals since World War I, said it would “help transport these contract K-9 soldiers to U.S. soil” and “provide for their lifetime medical care.”
In the statement issued by the animal-welfare group, Mr. Ganzert said contract dogs should have their status upgraded to prevent such abandonments in the future.
“We call on Congress to take action to classify contract working dogs on the same level as military working dogs. Failure to do anything less, is a failure of humanity and a condemnation of us all,” he said.
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KAJAKI, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 17: Marine Cpl. Jonathan Eckert of Oak Lawn, Illinois, attached to India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment sits with his improvised explosive device (IED) sniffing dog Bee as he tries to cope with the death of a fellow Marine while waiting for a MEDEVAC helicopter to pick up the Marine's remains during a patrol near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 17, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Eckert was checking for IEDs with Cpl. Jorge Villarreal of San Antonio, Texas in advance of a small group of Marines when Villarreal stepped on an IED pressure plate and was killed. The Marines of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Damn on the Helmand River. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)