‘We actually fought in your damn wars!’: Biden turns back on veterans during confrontation over war record

By Spencer Neale

Published March 5, 2020 5:51pm ET

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‘We actually fought in your damn wars!’: Biden turns back on veterans during confrontation over war record — Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, from left, bestows a medal on former U.S. President George Bush as former First Lady Laura Bush has the same bestowed by Doug DeVos, Executive Committee Chairman for the National Constitution Center, at the National Constitution Center Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Philadelphia. | (Corey Perrine/AP)

Two veterans who confronted former Vice President Joe Biden about his voting record on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars believe the Democrat should be disqualified from the race.

Air Force veteran Michael Thurman and another Army veteran told Biden he “enabled” the Iraq War, which began in March 2003, during a confrontation at the Buttercup Diner in Oakland on Super Tuesday.

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