Posted on 12/31/2019 4:51:12 PM PST by karpov
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg attacked rival Joe Biden on Sunday over Biden's support for the invasion of Iraq, saying Biden had "supported the worst foreign policy decision made by the United States in my lifetime."
Biden's Monday response was misleading -- both about his past position on the war in Iraq and about his past position on the war in Afghanistan.
Before he addressed his past position on Iraq in particular, Biden touted his broader foreign policy record. Citing judgment calls he said had been vindicated, such as his opposition to US intervention in Libya, he told the editorial board of New Hampshire's Seacoast Media Group: "I'm the guy that -- as has been pointed out repeatedly -- that thought we should not be going into Afghanistan."
Biden might have just been speaking imprecisely here, but the result was misleading no matter what his intentions.
Biden did not oppose the US invasion of Afghanistan. As a US senator from Delaware, he joined his Senate colleagues in a unanimous vote in support of the 2001 resolution that authorized the use of military force against "nations, organizations, or persons" President George W. Bush determined were behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
What, then, was Biden talking about when he said he was the man who "thought we should not be going into Afghanistan"? He was referring to his opposition to President Barack Obama's "surge" of additional troops into the country when Biden was vice president in 2009, a campaign official said on condition of anonymity. (Biden is known to have argued against the surge in internal debates.)
Indeed, Biden's next comments to the editorial board were about how he urged Obama-era military leaders to use a smaller military footprint in Afghanistan than some of them wanted.
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Translation from Communist Netspeak: Biden lied out his sociopathic pedo ass regarding . . .
Misleading, misspeaking....can anyone spell the word LYING?
That cant be true, because he’s been on both sides back and forth throughout, it just depends on who he’s talking to
They just cannot call him a LIAR, can they?
Of course not because he is a fellow Dem..if Biden were a Republican he would have been called a LIAR..oh and the media would have called for investigations into his dealing with Ukraine along with his crack addict son
Whoa. Be more specific, Joe. You talking about being opposed when Hillary cackled her famous, "We came, we saw, he died" line or were you opposed to intervention when our embassy in Benghazi was under attack?
Give him credit. He called for an independent Kurdistan.
Oh, right, right, right. The entire world was on the verge of collapse had Kurdistan not achieved independence. Just one question, Chief. Did Kurdistan achieve independence?
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LOL @ CNN spin
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