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Biden Only Misstates Number of Wounded Troops by 47,000
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 12, 2014 @ 10:13 am In The Point | 10 Comments
Joe Biden is a Patriot. He watches all their games on television. He really cares about all of America’s fighting men and women. Especially the ones high on cocaine sired by him. The first thing he does every morning, before putting on his face, is get an exact count of them all.
Because that’s just how much he cares. Or his speechwriter does. but then the teleprompter missed a number and it all went to hell.
Vice President Joe Biden misstated the number of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan by 47,000 at a Veterans Day event today at Arlington National Cemetary.
“Every day for the last six years, I ask my staff early in the morning to contact the Department of Defense to get a detailed report of the number of troops deployed, the number wounded, and the number killed. Not a general number; the exact number every day,” said the vice president. “Because for every one of those warriors there’s an entire family, extended family, back in America that has bled or is bleeding.”
Biden continued, “As of this morning, U.S. troops died in Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,703; troops wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan: 5,168.”
In fact, 52,168 troops have been wounded in these wars.
Maybe he just stole Neil Kinnock’s notes and meant British wounded? It’s happened with Joe before.
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