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[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That daily beast article is trash lol. But also: isnt this guy a sex offender?

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah apparently twice convicted...

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

yeah... twice 8 years apart is where my brain pretty much discards the possibility that there was fuckery with the conviction and accepts he's probably a pedophile. If you were falsely charged with soliciting a minor in an online chatroom, it would be pretty easy to never do that again. Simply don't go on chat rooms, or even less effort: simply leave when they say they're underage

[–] davel@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For those who don’t remember Scott Ritter:

Biden told Ritter that no matter how thorough the inspections, the only way to eliminate the threat was to remove Saddam Hussein. […] “You and I believe, and many of us believe here, as long as Saddam is at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect you or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out, root and branch, the entirety of Saddam’s program relative to weapons of mass destruction. […]

Hussein, it turned out, did not have an active WMD program.

During questioning, Biden mocked Ritter as “ol’ Scotty boy” and suggested that his demands — that the international community compel Iraq to cooperate with inspectors — if met, would give Ritter the unilateral authority to start a war in Iraq. Biden argued that such decisions belonged to higher-level officials. “I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether or not to take the nation to war,” Biden said. “That’s a real tough decision. That’s why they get paid the big bucks. That’s why they get the limos and you don’t. I mean this sincerely, I’m not trying to be flip.”

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can see the Biden in that article and clip being the foreign policy strategist some users have made him out to be. Nowadays not so much. I think a lot of what gets attributed to “Biden” is more likely a result of people like Victoria Nuland and Antony Blinken.

[–] NoSuchAgency@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to the MAGA club Mr. Ritter

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 months ago

Joe Biden was always a warmonger.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Most freedom-and-democracy in the world brandon