Biden’s Tuzla Moment?
Here’s how Joe Biden describes the encounter he calls Cloud-Pirates of Khandahar: Sky-Warriors of the Golden Triangle:
“What I care about is: What in God’s name is she going to do — along with John McCain — about the thousands of people who don’t have health care?” Biden asked. He’ll ask her about “The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down…John McCain wants to know where Bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Quaida is. That’s where Bin Ladin is. It’s not in the country of Iraq.”
Here’s how others reported the same incident:
Update at 3:33 p.m. ET: CNN says a Kerry spokesman has told the network that the helicopter landed because of impending bad weather, that none of the three are hurt — and that all three now are out of Afghanistan.
Update at 3:43 p.m. ET: A Biden spokesperson also is characterizing the landing to CNN as more of an “unscheduled,” instead of “emergency,” event because of unexpected bad weather.