Biden Meets Fourth-Graders In New Hampshire
When asked how the Iraq war started, Biden compared the conflict to the invasion of Afghanistan.
"Osama bin Laden set up camps there, and he was getting a lot of help from folks running that country called Afghanistan," Biden told the kids. "And that's where he planned an attack on America to bring the World Trade Towers down and kill all those innocent Americans. We had a right to, and we should've gone, to Afghanistan to try to get bin Laden and those people who've done very bad things to America."
"But the president, I think, he got a little confused," he added. "I think he thought the folks in another country, way, way far away, far from here, it's also far from Afghanistan, called Iraq. He said, 'The guy in Iraq he helped bin Laden do bad things to us,' and he didn't. He wasn't a good guy, but he didn't help. So we used that kind of as an excuse to attack Iraq."