The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., attacked rival primary candidate Joe Biden for trying to “rewrite history” on his voting record on the Iraq War.
In a statement late Saturday, Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to the Sanders campaign, called Biden’s position “dead wrong,” The Hill reported.
“It is appalling that after 18 years Joe Biden still refuses to admit he was dead wrong on the Iraq War, the worst foreign policy blunder in modern American history," Weaver charged.
"Unlike 23 of his Senate colleagues who got it right, Biden made explicitly clear that he was voting for war, and even after the war started, he boasted that he didn’t regret it."
David Sirota, a speechwriter for Sanders, tweeted that Biden "isn’t getting away with rewriting history about how he helped lead America into the Iraq War."
In a defense of Biden on Sunday, John Kerry, former Secretary of State and a surrogate for Biden on the campaign trail, told CBS News’ “Face The Nation” the vote wasn't for or against war.
“I know very well what Joe's position was, because I answered those questions back in 2002, 2000- 2003 and four,” he said.
“And it was very clear that what we were doing was listening to a president who made a pledge that he was going to do diplomacy, that he was going to exhaust diplomacy, build a coalition. And ultimately we learned, as Joe did and I did, that the intelligence was distorted.
“The vote was not a vote specifically to go to war.," he said. "it was a vote for the president to have leverage with respect to getting Saddam Hussein back... to the inspections. And I think we were let down and Joe has said many times that it was a mistake.”
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