Joe Biden Mistakes Bad Weather For Terrorists

• September 23, 2008

Invoking echoes of Hillary’s Balkan adventures, during a recent speech Joe Biden alluded to having been in a helicopter that was forced into evasive maneuvers by what he suggests (though doesn’t actually say) was the Taliban and/or al Qaeda terrorists.

“Ladies and gentlemen, where are we now? Where are we now?” Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said to the National Guard Association today, talking about the war in Afghanistan.
“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”
Biden said that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., “says he’ll follow them to the gates of hell. You don’t have to go to hell. Just go to Pakistan. Just go to that area. That superhighway of terror that exists between Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Sounds like Biden is saying that he and the other Senators/military brass on that helicopter had a close encounter with terrorists, no? Well, the truth is that it was more of a close encounter with some sort of cold front:

“The weather closed in on us,” Kerry told the AP at the time in a phone interview from Turkey. “It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges. So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed…We sat up there and traded stories.”
Kerry joked, “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn’t have to do it…Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.”

A year ago Biden was also caught exaggerating dangers he faced while visiting Iraq.
I know Democrats are desperate to look tough in the war on terror, but this sort of thing is just silly. I don’t really care if these politicians were caught in fire-fights, or had close calls while visiting war zones. I don’t expect a US Senator, or even the President of the United States, to personally take the field of battle and dodge bullets. So why are they making this stuff up?
Other than to puff up their already inflated egos, that is.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

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What is that meant to imply, other than that his helicopter was forced down by terrorists?

Holy fucking shit!!! Your right. I mean, what else could he have been trying to say? He is so stupid. He should know that if they actually were forced down by terrorists, we would have surely heard about it and that it would have been a huge deal. HE IS SO STUPID!!!! Wow. How does this guy function? I mean, after H. Clinton’s gaff about her “combat experience” no one should dare try that stunt again. This guy must have been under a rock. Or stuck in some bad weather in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Good job Silent Bob. Keep up the great work. You are so smart to put that together.
Chris

Sounds like Biden is saying that he and the other Senators/military brass on that helicopter had a close encounter with terrorists, no?

No.

Lunch Box,
You are such a dumb ass.
docdave

Get a hold of yourself, and do not allow others to lead you by the nose

And who has control of your nose? I think you only breath out of one nostril, the left one.
ellinas

ellinas should go to work for Charlie Gibson

kbiel on September 23, 2008 at 08:43 am

I am retired and will not work for anyone.
Get a hold of yourself, and do not allow others to lead you by the nose.
welder4

It sounds like Biden needs to inform the military of O samas whereabouts so they can catch him, if he knows where he is at why in the world doesn’t he tell Bush and the military>??
Hannitized

It’s better than breathing out of your anus, as Doc Dave does.
ellinas

“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

Biden said that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., “says he’ll follow them to the gates of hell. You don’t have to go to hell. Just go to Pakistan. Just go to that area. That superhighway of terror that exists between Afghanistan and Pakistan.“

By Rob on September 23, 2008 at 07:20 am

Seems to me he is saying something different from what you are saying.
welder4

It sounds like Biden needs to inform the military of O samas whereabouts so they can catch him, if he knows where he is at why in the world doesn’t he tell Bush and the military>??
ellinas

You think? You think? Wow!!!! You can think.
Well let me tell you something. I, unlike you, found a cure.
It is called middle of the road.
sayanything-2407

It is called middle of the road.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Proving once again that Biden doesn’t know Jack (Frost)? Heh.
welder4

It sounds like Biden needs to inform the military of O samas whereabouts so they can catch him, if he knows where he is at why in the world doesn’t he tell Bush and the military>??
kbiel

ellinas should go to work for Charlie Gibson. I understand he appreciates researchers who have not concept of context.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Biden is a gaff machine and a gift to the GOP…
http://hickeyblogspot.com/ Pat Hickey

Commander Joe McBragg!

Afghanistan . . .my greatest adventure . . . quite.’

http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccainpalin-world-of-commander-joe.html
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Here’s what Biden actually said:

“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

Biden is saying that if you want to find al Qaeda, come to where his helicopter was forced down.

What is that meant to imply, other than that his helicopter was forced down by terrorists?

Seriously, guys. This reading for meaning stuff isn’t rocket science. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and recognize that Democrats do, in fact, sometimes say stupid things that are worth of criticism.

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