Biden Misrepresented His Position on the Iraq War

“In recent speeches and interviews defending his past foreign policy decisions, former Vice President Joe Biden has misrepresented his past position on the Iraq War,” CNN reports.

Said Biden to NPR: “Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment.”

He gave a similar explanation at the July presidential debate: “From the moment ‘shock and awe’ started, from that moment I was opposed to the effort, and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress and the administration.”

“But a review of Biden’s public statements about Iraq in the lead up to the invasion shows he was never entirely opposed to military action against Saddam Hussein, and Biden continued to defend his vote to authorize the war in the months after the US military campaign began.”