As Obama approved sending troops to Afghanistan throughout 2009, Biden repeatedly pushed back on that decision as a 'strategic blunder.'
that would “bring administration down.” At one point, the vice president even considered stepping down in protest,“Tomorrow the President is going to make a fateful decision regarding Afghanistan — as I sat looking out the window at the sea — thinking I should resign in protest over what will bring his administration down,” Biden wrote. “Although I obviously wasn’t there I feel like this is what it must have felt like for Kennedy then Johnson in the early days of VTN .
Biden strongly opposed the decision to send troops to Afghanistan, which was documented in several entries in the then-vice president’s notes cited in special counsel Robert Hur’s report. Biden had even sent a memo to then-President Obama that “strongly criticized” the plan in an attempt to change his mind.
Biden later relayed to Hur that he sent the memo “because I was trying to change the President’s mind, and I wanted to let him know I was ready to speak out … and to really, quite frankly, save his a**.” That memo was among the classified documents found in Biden’s Delaware home alongside other marked documents, according to the special counsel report. Hur concluded that Biden had “a strong motive” to keep the documents as they helped preserve the record that he opposed the Obama administration’s Afghanistan policies.
Although the special counsel report found that Biden has mishandled classified government documents, Hur said the conduct did not warrant criminal charges.
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