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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My Brother was Classified 4F because of Childhood Asthma.
He had to disclose his Draft Classification on a Job Application for a Major Airline as an A&P Mechanic. They wouldn’t hire him because of it.
“Must be pretty bad if CNN is calling him out on it!......................”
I think the MSM is going to turn towards Bloomberg as the candidate.
Or Tom Steyer..................
This from CNN? Really? I know it’s not satire but it’s getting harder for me to tell satire from the real news these days.
The long knives are out for Biden.....................
From Hairplugs to Buttiplugs.................
Soros prefers a different candidate?
Chuck Todd, as if taking sides, made mincemeat of Elizabeth Warrern (or maybe she did it to herself and Chuck just called attention to it.)
Now CNN embarrasses Biden as if taking sides?
Back in 2001-2002 Biden was very flexible and political at the beginning of the Iraq conflict. He achieved fame and attention when early in the conflict he supported a 3 state solution. A Kurdish State. A Sunnie State. A Shia State.
It got attention because the Neo-Cons at National Review and their guys in the administration who were vocal about Nation-Building seemed to have zero ideas, knowledge or experience on how or what to nation-build.
Biden filled the vacuum. Of course, Bush and the neo-cons did not implement Biden’s plan. But he was the only person who had a plan.
I’m not saying it was a good plan. I don’t know. But it was the only plan. The nation-building neo-cons had nothing.
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