President Biden voted 20 years ago to go to war in Iraq. The vote has so far been a mixed bag in terms of predicting his actions as commander in chief.
President Joe Biden voted 20 years ago to go to war in Iraq. Unlike Hillary Clinton, this did not prevent him from subsequently reaching the White House. The vote has so far been a mixed bag in terms of predicting his actions as commander in chief.
The president’s travel schedule illustrates the tension. Biden was criticized for being among the last national leaders to visit Kyiv and meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When he finally did so while in Europe for broader international talks, he was pilloried for not being in East Palestine to survey the Ohio train derailment wreckage instead.
“Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized beyond Afghanistan,” Biden said when announcing his withdrawal decision. “So, we are repositioning our resources and adapting our counterterrorism posture to meet the threats where they are now significantly higher: in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.”
“In my judgment, President Bush is right to be concerned about Saddam Hussein’s relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the possibility that he may use them or share them with terrorists. These weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein, or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power," Biden said.
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