Fresh off a controversy about jumbling the details of a moving story about a war hero, Uncle Joe showed a more serious lapse yesterday, telling NPR that he came out against the Iraq War “immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment.”
As NPR’s Asma Khalid pointed out, that’s just not true.
In multiple public remarks made after the invasion began in 2003, Biden openly supported the effort. Biden publicly said his vote was a mistake as early as 2005, but not immediately when the war began in 2003.
“Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force, and I would vote that way again today,” Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution on July 31, 2003. “It was a right vote then, and it’ll be a correct vote today.”
As with Donald Trump, the biggest problem surrounding Biden’s untruthful statements is that he refuses to acknowledge them. He refused to concede getting anything wrong in the war hero kerfuffle, and he can probably be counted on to do the same thing with this — especially because polling has shown that his endorsement of that war is his biggest political liability.