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Pete Donnes

I almost expected to hear him say that he had invented the internet... Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he led the charge to include Poland in NATO when he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a claim that is simply not true. TRANSLATION -- Thats a LIE. The problem with the vice president’s NATO remarks — which some news organizations have characterized as a “gaffe” — is that he served as chairman from 2001 to 2003. Poland joined NATO in 1999. “Fifteen years ago, I was honored, as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to lead the fight for Poland’s admission into NATO,” Biden said in Warsaw, Poland, during a tour in Eastern Europe aimed at calming fears over Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine. It was Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, who guided the committee and launched the floor debate on granting NATO accession to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Biden did lead minority Democrats in approving the treaty resolution, after having initially expressed doubts about the political viability of expanding NATO. “If we are really going to alienate the Russians,” Biden asked in January 1997, according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, “what are we going to get for it?” To his credit, by the time the Senate was ready to debate the treaty in committee and on the floor, Biden had become an ardent advocate for its approval. go.bloomberg/political-capital/2014-03-18/bidens-gavel-gaffe-in-poland/

Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:35:48 +0000

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