Posted on 08/29/2019 10:41:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
HANOVER, N.H. Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into godforsaken country to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.
Some told him it was too risky, but Biden said he brushed off their concerns. We can lose a vice president, he said. We cant lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.
The Navy captain, Biden recalled Friday night, had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine under fire and retrieved the body of an American comrade, carrying him on his back. Now the general wanted Biden to pin a Silver Star on the American hero who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure.
He said, Sir, I dont want the damn thing! Biden said, his jaw clenched and his voice rising to a shout. Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!
The room was silent.
This is the Gods truth, Biden had said as he told the story. My word as a Biden.
Except almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This might be a great story to read if we had access to it.
For the life of me I cannot remember the actors who played Joe Biden and Brian Williams who must have been there.
Joe also has memory problems where he remembers a lot of things but only some of them are true. May need a new pseudo medical term for Joe, the Biden Scrambled Synaptic Syndrome (BS ... S ... S)!
Mouldy Joe was at the battle of Thermopylae too. And a young brave Spartan.... Well you know the rest.
My word as a Biden.
Worthless as a turd in a punch bowl.
The story in the WaPo is just another apology for Biden’s gaffes. It is a “Trump did it too” story. According to the article President Trump has told 12,000 false or misleading statement during his term. Think about that for a minute. 12,000 in three years is 11 to 12 per day! Talk about lying POS, WaPo and CNN take the prize.
“I bet Bidens aides had a carton of Silver Stars to hand out.”
Didn’t the powers that be afforded LBJ the same sort of treatment during World War II? IIRC, it was some perfectly safe (and useless) mission that he flew on and he ended up earning a Silver Star for it.
What is the difference between a ‘sea story’ and a fairly tale? Fairly tale begin ‘once upon a time’ and sea story begins ‘this aint no sh*t’.
Biden is a joke-always has been and always will be.
He is just a place holder until the convention where they will be unable to get a candidate so they will draft the First Transsexual Mr. Michelle Obama.
Maybe the guy looked really young for his age?
Tanks were rolling full speed right out of ocean.
Brian Williams witnessed the whole thing.
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I thought Brian Williams was actually with the Navy Captain bringing the body up. He was providing covering fire while hanging on the rope. He killed 5, uh.. 17 ISIS fighters including Osama Bin Lauden (sp). He was wounded 3 times but was able to heal himself immediately with little aftereffects other than extreme stupidity.
Also doesn’t the commanding officer have to nominate the soldier for a silver/bronze star, then it gets reviewed, ordered, before the soldier actually gets the award?
He’s from Delaware .
There’s a famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware.
Maybe he can work with that.
Omg doesnt anyone check over his speeches before he talks?
Perhaps it is just as well that we see him for how he is when he speaks impromptu.
Either way, he just sealed his fate.
I can picture him saying something like that lol.
Good catch!
yep... my thoughts exactly no Navy O-6 is going to be rappelling down into a ravine.
And then I said “Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead!”.
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