Biden is not abandoning his repeat false claim that he opposed the war in Iraq from the moment Bush went to war -- he did another version of the claim tonight. We've debunked it repeatedly: cnn.com/2019/12/31/pol…, cnn.com/2020/01/06/pol…, cnn.com/2019/09/04/pol….
Biden is correct that he called his vote a "mistake." But that was in 2005. He keeps saying he came out opposed to the war right when it started in March 2003. He very much did not. He was a vocal supporter of the war, though also a critic of Bush's handling of it, through 2004.
Biden is also dishonest when he keeps saying he only voted to authorize force because he thought Bush only wanted to get inspectors in. Biden did want inspectors in, but he was very clear, in 2002, 2003 and 2004, that he was voting for war if necessary -- and believed in the war.
