Posted on 09/09/2019 9:08:28 AM PDT by conservative98
Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden's campaign said Monday that the former vice president misspoke when he said that he immediately opposed the Iraq War.
"Vice President Biden misspoke by saying that he declared his opposition to the war immediately," senior campaign adviser Antony Blinken told The Washington Post for a fact-checking piece on Biden's Iraq stance.
"He opposed the way we went to war and the way the war was being carried out. He has for many years called his vote a mistake and takes full responsibility for it."
Biden in 2002 voted to give then-President George W. Bush the authority to launch the war.
Now the Democratic primary front-runner, Biden has said he opposed the Iraq War from the “moment it started.”
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The Post's fact check comes days after political commentator David Axelrod called out Biden for allegedly distorting his record on Iraq.
Axelrod, who was chief strategist to former President Obama, linked to a story from Slate titled "When Did Joe Biden Start Believing He Had Opposed the Iraq War?"
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“Misspoke” is such a loathesome weasel word. Nobody ever admits they were wrong or mistaken anymore, they just misspoke.
All democrats can say whatever they want - the slugs in the corrupt press will cover for them...
Hey, Hitlery was a gaffe machine too, and voted in favor of the WOT, it didn't stop her from running.
Never feel badly for these LIB losers and malignancies to civil society until they have no power and no authority . To feel badly for them is seen by them as a sign of weakness.
Gropin Joe is a gaffeholic.
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