“I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden opposed aspects of the Afghanistan war as vice president, including a 2009 troop surge ordered by Obama. However, Biden voted to launch the war in the first place, three days after the 9/11 attacks.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 12 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 December 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU0spyR9gvc
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