{"id":110333,"date":"2021-02-08T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110333"},"modified":"2021-02-08T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:00:46","slug":"biden-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110333","title":{"rendered":"Biden Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110334\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110334 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden_clinton.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We recently posted some news commentary about this, but the Daily Wire compiled a list of Biden&#8217;s claims and his rebuttals about being under fire in a war zone.\u00a0 The war stories from Hillary Clinton and Brian Williams are spoken about as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-cmdiie e172hw750\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ive-been-with-some-of-you-when-weve-been-shot-at-biden-revives-story-of-being-under-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u2018I\u2019ve Been With Some Of You When We\u2019ve Been Shot At\u2019: Biden Revives Story Of Being Under\u00a0Fire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has revived a story he told years ago that he was \u201cshot at\u201d overseas, mirroring a claim once made by Hillary Clinton for which she later said she \u201cmisspoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a short address to State Department employees on Thursday, Biden said, \u201cYou have great personal courage. I\u2019ve been with some of you when we\u2019ve been shot at.\u201d He offered no further details of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, Biden was forced to walk back a similar claim during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate. Then, he said he was \u201cshot at\u201d inside Baghdad\u2019s fortified Green Zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s start telling the truth,\u201d he said at the debate. \u201cNumber one, you take all the troops out \u2014 you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die, number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden later said, \u201cI was near where a shot landed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Then, when questioned further about the incident, Biden replied&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He added that the vehicle he was traveling in the day before might also have been hit. \u2026 Thinking about it now, he said, a more accurate comment would have been: \u2018I was near where a shot landed.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?\u00a0 People that we post about in this blog often take nuances of the truth, carefully craft their sentences and not take responsibility for people filling in the blanks.<\/p>\n<p>I call this leading a horse to water and not taking responsibility for it drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Some common ones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CLAIM: <em><strong>&#8220;My unit served in Vietnam \/ Khe Sanh \/ Battle of Ramadi.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>TRUTH: The individual &#8220;served&#8221; in the unit years later, but it is true that <em>*historically*<\/em> the unit served in X, X, or Z<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>CLAIM: <em><strong>&#8220;I served during the first Gulf War.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>TRUTH: True, but individual served stateside in a Motor-T\/transportation unit. Nothing wrong with that, certainly, but the statement is misleading.\u00a0 Served <em>during<\/em> and not <em>in<\/em>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>CLAIM: <em><strong>&#8220;When I was at BUD\/S&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>TRUTH: True, but they leave out the part about being a Drop on Request (DoR) and never finishing.\u00a0 There is no shame in going to BUD\/S and not finishing, but to imply you were a Navy SEAL and not correcting people&#8217;s assumption is crossing a line.\u00a0 The odd part about bragging about attending BUD\/S and not finishing is we have seen this on people&#8217;s resumes.\u00a0 How many people say they attended law school or medical school but leave out the part that they never graduated?\u00a0 Perhaps this is because it is illegal to claim you are a lawyer or doctor when you are not.\u00a0 It is not illegal to claim you were a SEAL, but it is unethical and perhaps illegal if there is something gained by the claim.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>CLAIM: <em><strong>&#8220;I am a disabled veteran.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>TRUTH: True, the individual is a veteran, and <em>is<\/em> disabled but fell off a ladder decades after he\/she got out of the military.\u00a0 The combination and proximity of the words <em>disabled<\/em> and <em>veteran <\/em>imply a combat-wounded veteran or service-connected disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The oddity about this is when questions arise such as &#8220;Weren&#8217;t you too young to serve in Vietnam?&#8221; or &#8220;How come you don&#8217;t have a CIB?&#8221; the individual comes at the questioner hard with making an assumption based on something he never claimed.\u00a0 i.e. <em>&#8220;I never claimed I was <strong>in<\/strong> Vietnam!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OK, <em>technically<\/em> there wasn&#8217;t a lie but what did you expect a person to believe based on how the claim was phrased?<\/p>\n<p>It is highly plausible that there was an intent to deceive although there was not <em>technically<\/em> a lie.\u00a0 This is compounded by the fact that the individual had to have tested this claim with others and if any doubt was raised they would modify the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Example: <em><strong>&#8220;I served during the first Gulf War.\u00a0 Stateside, but I proudly served during the course of the Gulf War.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So again, I question the motives of the individual making a claim who then quickly attack any person making the assumption.\u00a0 The individual making the claim <em>knew<\/em> exactly what they were saying and had the follow-up in their back hip pocket ready as a defense &#8211; like somehow it was silly to make the assumption.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the bullet may have hit the jeep I was riding in the night before &#8211; wasn&#8217;t that obvious?<\/p>\n<p>Is the desire for &#8220;street cred&#8221; so great that these awkward claims get thrown out there?<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-body-articles css-ns67zv\">\n<section>\n<header class=\"css-6k1apq e1azoy6g1\">\n<div class=\"css-18wsiqh\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently posted some news commentary about this, but the Daily Wire compiled a list of &hellip; <a title=\"Biden Under Fire\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110333\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden Under Fire<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":110334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,5,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-politics","category-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110340,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110333\/revisions\/110340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}