Defending his 2002 vote on Iraq, former Vice President Joe Biden wrongly claimed the Bush administration “said they were not going to go to war.” He said, “They said they were just going to get inspectors in.”
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Joe Biden claimed that “more people are coming home from Iraq with brain cancer” than “any other war.” But existing statistics do not indicate that Iraq veterans are more affected by brain cancer than other veteran groups.
This is our final installment of “Obama’s Numbers,” a regular feature on the state of the United States under President Obama.
The president said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6 trillion we could have rebuilt our country.” But that’s not how much the U.S. has spent so far.
