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As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story
Washington Post ^ | 08/29/2019 | Mat Viser and Greg Jaffe

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 can’t 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 don’t 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 God’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenlies; joebiden; liar; whoops
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To: Responsibility2nd

I honestly do not think Biden is lying. It is worse. He cannot tell the difference between the real world and the world in his head.


61 posted on 08/29/2019 2:49:03 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: albie

And the RED CHINESE dropped an ATOM BOMB on our favorite whore house, but we were able to fight them off with our light sabers and photon torpedoes.

And if you don’t believe me, ask the blind man around the corner, he saw it all.


62 posted on 08/29/2019 3:07:04 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
the WaPo??? beware of flying swine!!!
63 posted on 08/29/2019 3:34:36 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

See post 21.

George Costanza and Joe Biden are a lot alike.


64 posted on 08/29/2019 3:37:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: colorado tanker

“Brian Williams witnessed the whole thing.”

witnessed? the way i heard it from Brian is that he picked up a dead soldiers automatic musket, charged up San Juan Hill, and fought off the Taliban assault almost single-handedly ...


65 posted on 08/29/2019 4:13:10 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“I honestly do not think Biden is lying. It is worse. He cannot tell the difference between the real world and the world in his head.”

the other possibility is that Bidn has been so used to making up stuff with impunity for decades in front of small audiences, that he doesn’t fully understand that practically everyone on the planet now has asmart phones that contains a vid camera with the result that every public word and every public action is nearly instantly available to all of the billions who watch the internet, and that therefore there is no such thing as a lie told to a small public group that stays just with that group ...


66 posted on 08/29/2019 4:24:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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67 posted on 08/30/2019 8:03:49 PM PDT by bitt (The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.- Ayn)
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To: Responsibility2nd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SsgTaSjoI&feature=youtu.be


68 posted on 08/30/2019 8:04:31 PM PDT by bitt (The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.- Ayn)
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To: hinckley buzzard

If you think it’s a whitewash try watching the video with it

https://youtu.be/t1SsgTaSjoI

Same thing they did to him In 1988 they took him out with the kinnock plagerism side by side.

https://youtu.be/fmuAB5MqP0Y


69 posted on 08/30/2019 8:18:34 PM PDT by BiggBob
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To: Responsibility2nd
I'm betting the Washington Post - or the democrats that feed her - have known this crap about Biden for decades. They've decided to STOP protecting him because he's not a commie and he can't beat Trump.
70 posted on 08/30/2019 8:38:19 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Poised to" "prepared to" "considering" "Intends" (Freeper LS) isn't "news it's crystal ball gazing.)
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