2008 Video of Joe Biden Talking about Withdrawing Troops and Leaving Equipment Behind in Iraq

President Joe Biden’s long history in politics has come back to bite him countless times, but a clip from the 2008 presidential election seems almost prophetic.

During the 2008 Democratic primaries, Biden, who was a senator from Delaware at the time, made comments about withdrawing American troops from Iraq while speaking at a campaign event in Iowa in August 2007.

“[I]t makes a big difference to tell the American people the truth about what our options are in ending this war. If tomorrow, the order goes out — I’m president of the United States and I issue an order, ‘End the war today, begin to withdraw all American troops’, it will take a year to get all the American troops out,” Biden said in the clip from CSPAN.

“Do you hear me now? That’s the truth. It will take a year to get them physically out. Now if you leave all the equipment behind, you might be able to do it in seven months, and you leave those billions of dollars of weapons behind, I promise they’re gonna be used against your grandchild and mine someday.”

It should be obvious based on the date and context of the 2008 race, but in this clip going around conservative Twitter and shared by senators and members of Congress, Biden is talking about Iraq not Afghanistan.

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