Biden’s chopper was forced down by al-Qaeda!
Posted by LoneStar on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Al-Qaeda snowflakes, that is.
I’m beginning to wonder if liberals take a sacred oath to cheat, embellish the truth, or simply outright lie before they can become honorary liberals. Biden is certainly a liar… if we have established the meaning of the word “is” by now?
From Fox News :
In a Baltimore speech last week, Biden said: “If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. 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.”
Two days later, in Cincinnati, he said Al Qaeda has re-established a safe haven and it’s not in Baghdad. “It’s in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said, “where my helicopter was recently forced down.”
At a Sept. 9, fundraiser, Biden addressed his national security credentials by talking about “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down. John McCain wants to know where bin Laden and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Qaida is. That’s where bin Laden is.”
THE FACTS: In February, Biden and fellow senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were flying in a helicopter over Afghanistan in a fact-finding trip when a snowstorm closed in.
“It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges,” Kerry told The Associated Press afterward. “So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed.”
He said the group waited for about three hours until a convoy with U.S. troops took them to Bagram Air Base.
“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.”
He added: “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.”
The area was reported as not being under Taliban control. But Wade noted “it’s the wild west out there” and the senators were transported under guard and with air cover from an F-16.
So Biden says his helicopter was “forced down” in the middle of Bin Laden and al-Qaeda territory, so he can show John McCain where they’re at. Such grave overtones of experience, of danger.
All because he encountered… snowflakes. How terrifying, I’m sure. Perhaps Biden thinks his helicopter was “forced down” by some of Hillary’s sniper-fire?
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October 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
The majority of the press are giving Biden a pass.