Joe Biden, at an Iowa town hall on Saturday, was confronted by a voter. "I'm with you 90% of the way" he said, but was still hesitant to vote for him because "you were for the second Gulf War, which was a mess." Biden responded that he opposed the war “from the very moment” it began.
Biden said the same thing back in September, and his campaign was forced to state that he “misspoke” at the time. And here is Biden again, pulling a Trump, repeating the easily fact-checked lie.
And this one isn’t even close, as the CNN fact check linked above makes clear. But there are plenty of other examples, such as a speech at Brookings in 2003, when Biden said, “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. It was a right vote then, and it'll be a correct vote today."
It’s even worse than that, however. Democrats were in charge in the Senate during the war vote, and any such force authorization had to go through the Foreign Relations Committee. And guess who was in charge of that committee?
Yup. Joe Biden.
He was literally in charge of giving George W. Bush his war powers in the Senate. He says he “trusted” Bush, which is in itself disqualifying. If you want the complete comprehensive blow-by-blow, this piece is good. But ultimately, it comes down to whether we nominate someone who is a clear break from the past hypermilitaristic and interventionist foreign policy school of thought from which Biden emerges, or whether we forge a new post-Trump path that respects the world and lessens demands for needlessly surrendering our blood and treasure in unnecessary overseas adventures.