Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't.

function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); A spokesperson for Donald Trumps presidential campaign has blamed President Barack Obamafor invading Afghanistan ' a foreign policy decision he never made. Remember we werent even in Afghanistan by this time, Katrina Pierson told CNN early Saturday, referencing the year 2011, when the U.S. withdrew from Iraq. Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem.That was Obamas war, she declared later in the program, when asked to clarify if she meant Obama was responsible for its launch.In fact, the invasion of Afghanistan took place in 2001 after the attacks on September 11 of that year. 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.When he did end up in the White House in 2008, the war in Afghanistan was still going on. 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. Pierson most likely mistook Obamas announced surge in December 2009' the outgrowth of his campaign policy ' as an actual invasion. But it wasnt.There is good reason to conclude that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent war created a real mess. Obama will leave officewith American troops still there.But there is a reason it is widely described as Americas longest war. Its because it started in 2001. Not, as Pierson implied, 2009. Editorsnote:DonaldTrumpregularlyincites political violenceand is aserial liar,rampant xenophobe,racist,misogynistandbirtherwho has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ' 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ' from entering the U.S. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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