Biden on Afghanistan withdrawal: 'It's time to end America’s longest war'
On Location: April 14, 2021
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President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because "it is time to end America’s longest war."
"We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago," Biden said. "That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021."
The president formally announced the withdrawal in the White House Treaty Room -- the same place George W. Bush announced the launch of the war on Oct. 7, 2001 just weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Immediately afterward, Biden was scheduled to visit Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60, where many service members who died in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried.