Obama, Bush and Clinton join forces with new organization helping Afghan evacuees

[babylonsister]

Obama, Bush and Clinton join forces with new organization helping Afghan evacuees
By Melissa Quinn
September 14, 2021 / 10:20 AM / CBS News


Washington — Three of the nation's four most recent former presidents are coming together to offer their support to a new organization that aims to assist Afghan evacuees who are resettling in the United States after fleeing Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, are joining Welcome.US as honorary co-chairs "to lift up everyone else involved and remind us that this is our opportunity, in a time of all too much division, for common purpose," the group's website states.

The organization, which launched Tuesday, also boasts a welcome council composed of former and current government officials from both parties, military and business leaders, and activists. It brings together a coalition of organizations helping Afghan allies as they arrive in the U.S. and businesses making financial or in-kind contributions to resettlement efforts.

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[Retrograde]

1. There seems to be someone missing here

just can't put my finger on it, but I think he had something to do with announcing the withdrawal. And his wife's an immigrant so she should be able to empathize. Hmmm, wonder why he's not on the list.

(The Carters get a pass for being almost 100, and anyway they spent most of the past 4 decades working for the benefit of other people)

[BootinUp]

3. He was too busy to take the call.

[SCantiGOP]

4. Retrograde: give me another hint

Are you thinking about the best President since Lincoln? The stable genius (maybe that’s why the like horse medicine)?

[abqtommy]

2. I sure wish that they'd support the Haitians too. nt