“I’m sure it’s just an innocent mistake of memory, but that recollection is flat wrong,” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told the Fact Checker. Biden, during the Senate debate on a resolution authorizing force against Iraq on Oct. 10, 2002, argued that the resolution was designed to ensure diplomacy. Irritating allies, the administration argued that the inspections could not be allowed to drag on because the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf region had proceeded too far to turn back from war. I am not opposed to war to remove weapons of mass destruction from Iraq,” he said in a February 2003 speech. That was the position taken by Senate liberals that Biden had previously dismissed during the debate about the war resolution.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2020 21:27 UTC