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Looks like he's thinking about running. Why else would he need to start rewriting history to make himself look better to the public? The loyal media won't contradict him by looking back a few years to see what they reported then. Now he says he was in favor of going after bin Laden, but before he stated he was against it.
Biden's account changed over the years. Of course, the WH account was changing drastically in the days immediately following the SEALS' successful mission.
How does anyone know when to believe them and when not to? Or do libs just believe the version they finally settle on? Is today's story more credible than yesterday's story?
Biden's latest account on the decision whether or not to go after Osama bin Laden:
"Itâs been held up as one of the starkest differences between Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden: She decisively supported the raid to take out Osama bin Laden, and he opposed it.
But on Tuesday, Biden altered his account of what happened in the lead-up to the 2011 operation, telling an audience that he gave his direct support to President Barack Obama after a cabinet meeting, and notably omitting Clintonâs name from the list of people who were definitively in favor of it â amid sky-high speculation that he is poised to challenge her for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
"It was something that was a difficult call for the president. So, we sat in the cabinet room at the end of the day making the decision. He said, âI want everybodyâs opinion.â Everybody went around the room," Biden said at George Washington University.
"There were only two people who were definitive and absolutely certain: Leon Panetta said go and Bob Gates said donât go, and others were 51-49, some ended up saying go, but it was such a close call," he continued. "I joked and I said, âYou all sound like 17 Larry Summers,â the economist, on one hand then on the other. They said, âJoe, what would you do?â There was a third option I didnât really think we should do. I said, I think we should make one more pass with a UAV to see if it is him."
"The reason I did that is because I didnât want to take a position to go if that was not where [Obama] was going to go. So as we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go, but follow his own instincts," Biden added. "But it would have been a mistake â imagine if I had said in front of everyone, donât go or go, and his decision was different. It undercuts that relationship. I never say what I think finally until I go up into the Oval with him alone.""
His account back in 2012:
"Every single person in that room hedged their bet except Leon Panetta. Leon said go. Everyone else said, 49, 51," Biden said in 2012. "He got to me. He said, âJoe, what do you think?â And I said, âYou know, I didnât know we had so many economists around the table.â I said, âWe owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, donât go. We have to do two more things to see if heâs there.â"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/20/joe-biden-alters-bin-laden-account-he-supported-the-raid-hillary-clinton-wasnt-decisive/
Biden's account changed over the years. Of course, the WH account was changing drastically in the days immediately following the SEALS' successful mission.
How does anyone know when to believe them and when not to? Or do libs just believe the version they finally settle on? Is today's story more credible than yesterday's story?
Biden's latest account on the decision whether or not to go after Osama bin Laden:
"Itâs been held up as one of the starkest differences between Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden: She decisively supported the raid to take out Osama bin Laden, and he opposed it.
But on Tuesday, Biden altered his account of what happened in the lead-up to the 2011 operation, telling an audience that he gave his direct support to President Barack Obama after a cabinet meeting, and notably omitting Clintonâs name from the list of people who were definitively in favor of it â amid sky-high speculation that he is poised to challenge her for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
"It was something that was a difficult call for the president. So, we sat in the cabinet room at the end of the day making the decision. He said, âI want everybodyâs opinion.â Everybody went around the room," Biden said at George Washington University.
"There were only two people who were definitive and absolutely certain: Leon Panetta said go and Bob Gates said donât go, and others were 51-49, some ended up saying go, but it was such a close call," he continued. "I joked and I said, âYou all sound like 17 Larry Summers,â the economist, on one hand then on the other. They said, âJoe, what would you do?â There was a third option I didnât really think we should do. I said, I think we should make one more pass with a UAV to see if it is him."
"The reason I did that is because I didnât want to take a position to go if that was not where [Obama] was going to go. So as we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go, but follow his own instincts," Biden added. "But it would have been a mistake â imagine if I had said in front of everyone, donât go or go, and his decision was different. It undercuts that relationship. I never say what I think finally until I go up into the Oval with him alone.""
His account back in 2012:
"Every single person in that room hedged their bet except Leon Panetta. Leon said go. Everyone else said, 49, 51," Biden said in 2012. "He got to me. He said, âJoe, what do you think?â And I said, âYou know, I didnât know we had so many economists around the table.â I said, âWe owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, donât go. We have to do two more things to see if heâs there.â"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/20/joe-biden-alters-bin-laden-account-he-supported-the-raid-hillary-clinton-wasnt-decisive/
