Biden exaggerates his visits to Iraq and Afghanistan at veterans town hall in Delaware

[mystery-ak]

December 16, 2022 3:08pm EST
Biden exaggerates his visits to Iraq and Afghanistan at veterans town hall in Delaware
Fact-checker has rated Biden's claim on number of Iraq, Afghanistan visits 'false'

By Chris Pandolfo | Fox News

President Biden was speaking at a town hall event with veterans Friday when he repeated a false claim about the number of times he's visited Iraq and Afghanistan.

The president was the featured speaker at a town hall event hosted by Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., the last Vietnam veteran serving in the Senate, at the Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center near New Castle, Delaware. Elected officials and veterans groups gathered there Friday to discuss the PACT Act — legislation Biden signed that expands medical benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances from burn pits. 

"I've been in and out, not as, obviously, a combatant, but in and out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and those areas 38, 39 times as vice president, only twice as president," Biden told his audience as he related discussions that occurred before the law was enacted. 

The president exaggerated the number of times he's visited the Middle East, which he has done before. In his first State of the Union address, Biden falsely claimed he had traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan "over 40 times." The actual number is closer to 21 times, according to a PolitiFact fact-check that rated his claim "false" in March. 

While Biden has traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq many times, including to visit his late son, Beau, who served in Iraq, he has a habit of exaggerating his visits when speaking in public. In 2019, he made up a story about a four-star general asking the then-vice president to travel to Knar, Afghanistan, to award a medal to a Navy captain. The Washington Post exposed the tale as a fib, and the Biden campaign admitted the correct number was 21 trips, some of which happened while Biden was serving as a U.S. senator from 1973 to 2009.

Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. His father, the president, has often attributed Beau's illness and death to exposure to toxins forum burn pits in Iraq. 

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[berdie]

Joey reminds me of a friend (?) I used to have. When having a discussion I might say "The wind was really strong last night at my place." She would counter with "Oh yeah..I had a hurrinado that blew my house to Oz."

He needs to be the bestest.

[mountaineer]

21, 39, 50 ... whatever it takes.
Anyway ... oh, you know ...

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1603882157466083328

[mystery-ak]

Yeah...and now Beau got brain cancer from the burn pits....I thought Beau was a lawyer and served his time in a Baghdad office...Mike said he is unaware of any burn pits there.

Mike is on the VA registry since he served two tours in Camp Anaconda, Balad airbase where they were notorious for their 24/7 burn pits.

[mountaineer]

Beau's fatal illness had absolutely nothing to do with his time in the Middle East, and Joe knows it. Well, he probably did know it at one time, but he's forgotten.