During the YouTube debate on July 23, 2007, then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he had been to the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq seven times and been 'shot at'.The Hill: Biden revises claim he was ‘shot at’ in Iraq (August 8, 2007)
Questioned two weeks later by The Hill newspaper, Biden said that during a Green Zone visit in December 2005, a projectile landed outside the hotel they were staying at and they felt the building shake.Fox News: Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq (September 30, 2008)
Some media commentators have pointed out that Hillary Clinton was criticized for misstatements about her experiences under sniper fire, and Sarah Palin for comments about American policy in Pakistan, and they wonder why Biden hasn't been criticized for his misstatements.Fox News: Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq (September 30, 2008)
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"No one got up and ran from the room--it wasn't that kind of thing. It's not like I had someone holding a gun to my head." -- Joe Biden, revising his earlier statementsThe Hill: Biden revises claim he was ‘shot at’ in Iraq (August 8, 2007)
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In December 2005, Biden's helicopter en route to the Baghdad airport was shot atThe Hill: Biden revises claim he was ‘shot at’ in Iraq (August 8, 2007)
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In December 2004, while leaving Iraq, Biden's C-130 cargo airplane's anti-missile system registered an attack by a surface-to-air missileThe Hill: Biden revises claim he was ‘shot at’ in Iraq (August 8, 2007)
