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@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 1) "Biden was concerned about 'the enormous consequences of failure.'" -- Barack Obama, recalling how as vice president Joke Biden argued against launching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 2) "If I have to follow him to the Gates of Hell, I will get Osama bin Laden ... " -- Rep Pres nominee John McCain (8/16/2008)

@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 3) "The American people are ... so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand. We are united and when people harm Americans we don’t retreat, we don’t forget. We will follow (ISIS) to the Gates of Hell.” -- Vice president Joke Biden (9/3/14)

@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 4) "We think that surge should be Afghanistan, not Iraq, where the Taliban appears to be making a serious comeback." Sen Joke Biden, co-author, Afghan Freedom and Support Act authorizing significantly increased reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan. (1/30/07)

@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 5) "Instead of having a counterterrorism capability to have small forces there in-- or in the region to be able to take on Al Qaeda if it tried to reconstitute, we decided to engage in nation building.That never made any sense to me." -- Pres Joke Biden (8/18/21)

@AKA_RealDirty @sethjlevy 6) "Look, that's like askin' my deceased son Beau, who spent six months in Kosovo and a year in Iraq as a Navy captain and then major-- I mean, as an Army major. And, you know, I'm sure h-- he had regrets comin' out of Afganista-- I mean, out of Iraq." Pres Joke Biden (8/18/21)

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