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Fact check: Biden again dishonestly suggests he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning
CNN ^ | Updated 8:32 AM ET, Mon January 6, 2020 | By Daniel Dale

Posted on 01/06/2020 12:13:23 PM PST by Red Badger

Washington (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden dishonestly suggested on Saturday that he had opposed the war in Iraq "from the very moment" it began in 2003 -- even though Biden's campaign said in September that he "misspoke" when he made a similar claim. Biden was responding Saturday to a voter in Des Moines, Iowa, who told him, "I'm with you 90% of the way" but questioned his judgment in part because "you were for the second Gulf War, which was a mess." Biden said that "from the very moment" President George W. Bush launched his "shock and awe" military campaign, and "right after" that occurred, "I opposed what he was doing, and spoke to him." It's false that Biden opposed the war from the moment Bush started it in March 2003. Biden repeatedly spoke in favor of the war both before and after it began.

Biden's language on Saturday -- saying he opposed "what he was doing" at the moment the war commenced -- was more vague than his language in September, when he flatly said he had opposed "the war" at that moment. But the new version was highly misleading even under the most generous interpretation. On both occasions -- and on another occasion earlier this week -- Biden created the impression that he had been against the war at a key moment when he was actually a vocal supporter.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: biden; clowncar; delaware; desmoines; gulfwar; iowa; iran; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; newhampshire
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Must be pretty bad if CNN is calling him out on it!......................
1 posted on 01/06/2020 12:13:23 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Joe might just not remember.

Maybe it was his war with Corn Pop that he was against.


2 posted on 01/06/2020 12:15:30 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

The dems and their partners in the media don’t want an old white guy in the race.


3 posted on 01/06/2020 12:16:07 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Red Badger

Although I don’t consider Biden to be “smooth” in any real sense, he is nevertheless a “smooth talker”. He phrases things as artfully as he can manage so that he can lie to you without quite lying. He’s a used car salesman. He’s a politician. He just wants to get away with whatever he can getaway with.

President Trump, on the other hand, is not a smooth talker. He doesn’t “filter” himself because he doesn’t need to filter himself. He says what he means. He means what he says. That’s part of the reason the smooth talkers hate him.


4 posted on 01/06/2020 12:20:23 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: DannyTN

Maybe he’s remembering Vietnam....... it’s seared into his memory, like John Kerry...............


5 posted on 01/06/2020 12:21:10 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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His Campaign is always correcting him.

Something is wrong.

With the Media and his brain.

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6 posted on 01/06/2020 12:22:01 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: shelterguy

They don’t want a ‘white anything’ in the race.............


7 posted on 01/06/2020 12:22:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: ClearCase_guy

He says whatever he figures the people in front of him at any given time want to hear...................


8 posted on 01/06/2020 12:23:03 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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"Biden received student draft deferments during this period, at the peak of the Vietnam War, and in 1968, he was reclassified by the Selective Service System as not available for service due to having had asthma as a teenager." - Wikipedia

Sounds like Biden was breathing heavy during the Vietnam war.

9 posted on 01/06/2020 12:23:54 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

I opposed running a war of occupation and pointed out that within the middle east punative wars are appropriate.


10 posted on 01/06/2020 12:26:00 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Yes, drop the bombs, destroy the infrastructure, then leave.............


11 posted on 01/06/2020 12:27:10 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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They’re turning on him?

Who do they have waiting in the wings to take the Dem nomination?


12 posted on 01/06/2020 12:27:28 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Red Badger

More “truth over facts” in action.


13 posted on 01/06/2020 12:28:40 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Red Badger

Is he saying he was against the war from the start..and not for it until he was against it?


14 posted on 01/06/2020 12:31:22 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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I think he’s mixing up his wars, Vietnam with Gulf War II and Desert Storm................


15 posted on 01/06/2020 12:33:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

The dirty secret is the leadership of the Democrat Fascist party is acting exactly like they always have done. They simply stopped lying about it now.

The only reason they were forced to put a sock in it after 09-11 was the people would of lynched them. The day after 09-11 people like Hillary Clinton were complaining about having to get the President a blank check to fight the terrorists.

The people running the Democrat Fascist Party are pure scum who have no business being in any position of political power anywhere


16 posted on 01/06/2020 12:40:01 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Red Badger

Biden is precisely what’s wrong with American politics.


17 posted on 01/06/2020 12:42:17 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Red Badger

Makes sense, opposed the Iraq War but was all in for Libya and removing Gaddafi.......yeah, okie dokie. This sh*t getting to the point that any time any DEM libtard running for POTUS opens their mouth, they flat out making sh*t up or outright lying. Like WTF, and peeps still identify or stay Democrats. The idiocy is real.


18 posted on 01/06/2020 12:54:31 PM PST by cranked
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Enjoy this while you can -- once Joe is the nominee, all these pinnochio moments will be scrubbed from media websites.

19 posted on 01/06/2020 12:55:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

I would go even further. I wouldn’t even claim responsibility. “no comment”

Let them see us as a hurricane that takes in the night.


20 posted on 01/06/2020 1:12:14 PM PST by The Toll
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