Joseph Biden actually said...

"Our interests in going was to prevent al Qaeda from reemerging, first to get bin Laden, wipe out al Qaeda and Afghanistan, prevent that from happening again."

"To fight a war that we had already won relative to the reason why we went in the first place. I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a Democrati..."

"Millions of Afghani citizens who are not Taliban, who did not actively cooperate with us as SIVs, who, if given a chance, may be on board a plane tomorrow."

"Look, I know of no conflict as a student of history, no conflict where, when a war was ended, one side was able to guarantee that everyone they wanted to be extracted from that country would get out."