Sunday 5 October 2014

Joe Biden's Harvard bombshell

World media lies about Biden speech
Seemorerocks

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to students faculty and staff at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)


Yesterday RT came up with the mind-boggling story of how US VP Joe Biden gave a speech at Harvard in which he told the truth about US allies supplying Jihadists in Syria.  Except he forgot, at the same time to mention the US's own role in all of this.

This earth-shattering news did not get any coverage anywhere in major western news outlet despite the fact that the video footage is available and you can hear first-hand what Biden had to say.

I said yesterday "just wait for the reaction"

And it came with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan making this statement:

"If Biden told these words, then he will be history to me. I never uttered such remarks, he should apologize. I'm saying this clearly. And we won't accept slender, indirect explanations.” 

God knows what was happening yesterday behind closed doors but the reports are that Biden has had to apologise to Erdogan.

Here is how the Guardian reported this:


In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded and received an apology from the US vice-president, Joe Biden, over comments in which Biden said the Turkish leader had admitted Turkey had made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.

Erdogan denied ever saying that and told reporters in Istanbul that Biden “will be history for me if he has indeed used such expressions”.

The White House said Biden spoke to Erdogan on Saturday “to clarify comments”, and said Biden apologised “for any implication” that Turkey or other allies had intentionally supplied or helped in the growth of the Isis group or other extremists in Syria.

Responding to questions following his speech at the Harvard Kennedy School on Thursday, Biden described Erdogan as “an old friend” and added: “He [Erdogan] said: ‘You were right. We let too many people through.’ Now they’re trying to seal their border.”

Erdogan said: “I have never said to him that we had made a mistake, never. If he did say this at Harvard then he has to apologise to us. Foreign fighters have never entered Syria from our country. They may come to our country as tourists and cross into Syria, but no one can say that they cross in with their arms.”






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See also: Biden apologizes to Turkey president in phone call


Nowhere in the report is it acknowleged what Biden ACTUALLY said:

"So, determined to take down Assad they poured in hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons to anyone who would fight Assad; except the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra, al-Qaeda and extremist elements of Juhadis coming from other parts of the world" (my transcript of Biden's speech)


You can hear for yourself what was actually said.

So the part of the media that is covering this AT ALL is lying by omitting to quote what was actually said.

It seems, also, if you look at the quote that Erdogan is not acknowledging the truth of what was actually revealed

I am actually surprised that no one is jumping up and down about this - yet another indication of how far we have slipped when it comes to reporting an vestige of the truth.


If you really want to hear for yourself, listen to this more objective report from RT





Here is RT's article from today: 


Biden apologizes to Turkish president for ISIS remarks


U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. (Reuters/Larry Downing)

RT,
26 January, 2013

US Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleging that the leader allowed foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State to cross into Syria. Erdogan was outraged over the remark.


Biden presented his apology in a phone call to Erdogan on Saturday, the White House said.

Speaking at Harvard University on Thursday, Biden claimed that 
"President Erdogan told me, he is an old friend, said you were right, we let too many people through, now we are trying to seal the border.”

Responding to the remark, Erdogan said he 
never admitted any mistakes.”
"If Biden told these words, then he will be history to me. I never uttered such remarks," the Turkish leader said. He should apologize. I'm saying this clearly. And we won't accept slender, indirect explanations.”

During the phone call with Erdogan, Biden 
apologized for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL (IS, ISIS) or other violent extremists in Syria," the White House said.

On Thursday, Biden blamed America’s allies in the region – Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – for allowing the rise of the Islamic State, saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.


Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said. He went on to explain that such allies were so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against the Syrian leader.


So we do not lose touch with what Biden said in the recent past, see this

US VP Biden: We Couldn't 

Convince Our Mideast Allies 

to Stop Supporting Extremists 

in Syria




US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS aka ISIL or ISIS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to topple Assad in Syria.

America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.

Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad.

And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said Biden, thus dissociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria.

The outcome of such a policy now is more visible,” he said, as it turned out they supplied extremists from Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda.



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