Biden: Obama Turned to Me to End the War in Iraq

‘Barack Obama, picked me to be his vice president’

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BIDEN: “And I acknowledged that. But right — the man who also argued against that war, Barack Obama, picked me to be his vice president. And once we were elected president, he turned — and vice president, he turned to me and asked me to end that war. I know what it’s like to send a son or daughter like our colleague has gone to war in Afghanistan, my son for a year in Iraq, and that’s why I do it very, very reluctantly. That’s why I led the effort, as you know, wolf, against surging tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan. We should not send anyone anywhere unless the overwhelming vital interests of the United States are at stake. They were not at stake there, they were not at stake in Iraq. And it was a mistaken vote. But I think my record overall on everything everything we’ve done has been — I’m prepared to compare it to anybody’s on this stage.”

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