Iranian Media: ‘Biden’s Mental Health Under Question Again’
John Hayward 25 Jun 2021
Iran’s pro-regime Tasnim news agency reported Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s mental health is “under question again” after a “gaffe” during a speech in North Carolina in which Biden claimed the coronavirus has killed more people than all the wars of the 20th Century combined, including an American war in Iran that did not actually occur.
The Tasnim article largely plagiarized a piece in the New York Post on Thursday, copying much of it word-for-word without attribution, including the punctuation. Tasnim’s writers threw in a few more scare quotes to make Biden seem even more eccentric, especially when he referred to the non-existent American invasion of Iran.
“We lost 600,000 dead in America in about a year. That’s more than every life lost in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, Iraq, Iran, across the board. Afghanistan. More lives lost in a year than every major war in the 20th Century and the 21st Century,” Biden said in North Carolina on Thursday.
Biden was more or less correct about the number of American deaths attributed to the Wuhan coronavirus, which stood at 618,702 on Friday. Hideous as this total might be, it is far less than “every life lost in World War I” alone, let alone “every major war in the 20th Century and 21st Century.” At least 16 million people died in the First World War, including about 8.5 million soldiers from all combatants. The Second World War was considerably deadlier than the first.
Assuming Biden meant “every American life lost” in those wars makes for a much closer comparison, provided one leaves out the Korean War, which Biden forgot to mention. It is still a strange factoid to toss around as a talking point, even before Biden slipped up and added Iran to the list of major American military conflicts.
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