No, No He Did Not.
Katrina Pierson says President Barack Obama began the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Pierson, now a long-time spokesperson for the Donald Trump for President campaign, wrongly blamed the Afghanistan war on President Obama, when in fact his predecessor, President George W. Bush, took the nation to war in Afghanistan in what became the longest war in all of U.S. history.
“Remember we weren’t even in Afghanistan by this time,†Pierson told CNN’s Victor Blackwell, on “New Day” Saturday morning. “Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem.â€
Pierson later restated her false claim, that Afghanistan “was Obama’s war,” when given the opportunity to clarify her previous remarks.
As most schoolchildren know, President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, on October 7 of 2001.Â
“Obama was a state senator in Illinois at the time, moonlighting as a restaurant critic. Being president was nothing but a dream for him back then,” Sam Stein at the Huffington Post notes.
“When he did end up in the White House in 2008, the war in Afghanistan was still going on,” Stein continues. “And Obama made ramping up U.S. presence there a central plank of his foreign policy platform during his campaign to be president. Too many resources had been spent on Iraq, he repeatedly argued, and not enough on the country from which al Qaeda actually planned the attacks.”
Once again, Pierson’s remarks are wholly incoherent and fact-less.Â
“Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan‘s death in 2004?,” Mediaite asks today in reporting Pierson’s false accusation. Just one week ago a Trump advisor, ironically on CNN, promised Americans, “I think we’re fixing it, I guarantee you that won’t happen again with her, that’s for sure.â€
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