LogFAQs > #983700156

whitelytning posted...

As has already been explained, that isnt what he said.

Gwynevere posted...

Yeah, I mean it's straight up misquoted as "had legitimate reason" in the topic title. Why let accuracy get in the way though?

Biden: "He made the legitimate argument-- his perspective, 'and look, these are the guys who killed my people. These are the guys who are all over in these tunnels.' Nobody had any idea, you know, that miles of tunnels were down there... It's *amazing* what they built! And they were sometimes 200 feet under the ground! Only way to get them were to take out the places which they were under which, the places ways that they got to the tunnels... And so, that's the first time I had a discussion about bombing civilian areas was, when I went over there after the 9/11 -- uh, after the massacre that occurred."

Interviewer: "So after 8 10 11 days, you had already raised the issue of, of how to get to a ceasefire--"

Biden: "Well not a ceasefire. How to prevent innocent death. And then I pushed really really hard for more humanitarian aid."

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Please explain how the bolded section is not Biden straightforwardly saying that mass bombing was necessary to destroy the "Hamas tunnels".