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He was asked on the street by a random reporter.
His quote includes "likely"
For the last couple years Bidens off the cuff remarks haven't exactly been reliable.
Yet people are treating this as an official stance of the US Government...
I’ll take what the president says as the stance of the US government, and I don’t think that’s remotely unreasonable…
If he’s making mistakes with off the cuff remarks, then he needs to stop making off the cuff remarks.
It's certainly more likely to be the correct way if looking at it than it was a few short years ago.
Well, the president is stopping short of saying it was Hamas yet, so there you go.
Nobody thinks it was Hamas. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a different Iran-supported group.
No one from the US government has said it was anyone...
Just "it doesn't look like Israel is responsible"
Yet people are acting like it's undeniable proof...
Good enough for me.
The same people who jumped on the Israel definitely bombed that hospital bandwagon are now so sure that nothing short of 100% proof could ever sway them
A week ago Biden said he saw beheaded babies
Biden's been making stupid off the cuff remarks since the 80s, it's practically what he's known for.
"Iraq has WMD's" is a similar statement, backed by an entire administration, that also led to unnecessary deaths.
Its a political statement, because if Israel did attack the hospital, then that's another outright war crime right after Israel was threatened by Jordan, Lebanon, and Iran.
Uh, did you miss this part?
The embedded tweet:
So the investigation isn't concluded, there might not have even been an official investigation, and all they're saying is Israel "isn't responsible".
None of what OPs headline claims.
That's a tweet from the white house national security council. That's completely independent of the article's claim that two pentagon officials gave them info.
So those two officials haven't officially said it...
And even if they did say it to journalists, there's nothing to back it up?
What exactly are you trying to get at? I've literally rebuked every claim you've made, but your stance just seems to boil down to "they are lying."
Wow shocker the pentagon is defending its close partner in the war. Ill beleive them when they actually release evidence not just "The pentagon said so."
Out of anything this is the strangest complaint. Why wouldn't he answer a street reporter?
Because Biden's biggest fans have spent years defending his misspeaking by saying his stutter makes him get words mixed up when he's randomly asked questions...
So when he's stopped to get asked a random question, we need to wait a day or two to see if that's what he really meant to say, or if his stutter made him somehow say the wrong words again.
If the administration comes out with a revision or clarified updated statement then I’ll likely accept that too. For now, words out of the presidents literal mouth are as much of an official statement that I need.
Must have been a confusing seven years for you then...
Which seven years are you referring to?
The most recent seven...
I didn't think I needed to specify that
Admittedly Biden is old and boring and sometimes confusing. Trump was a gaslighter whose words also represented the office, but that I couldn’t trust.
I don’t have to wake up worrying about some dangerous shit that Biden tweeted though. I’ll take this any day of the week.
Well, yeah.
The world isn't black or white. But if you've been accepting anything a US president says as enough...
Saying it's been an issue for 7 years is an understatement. Which is why you asking g me to clarify was so weird.
Obama was only decent because of the drastically low bar we've had for decades.
I’m accepting it as “enough” in the very narrow definition that words from the president qualify as a statement from the office.