The Onion @midwest.social Clodsire @lemmy.ml 1 yr. ago

Biden Expresses Doubts That Enough Palestinians Have Died

www.theonion.com Biden Expresses Doubts That Enough Palestinians Have Died

WASHINGTON—Saying civilian casualties were the “price of waging a war” and that so far the price had not been high enough, President Biden spoke to reporters Thursday about the conflict in Gaza and expressed doubts that enough Palestinians had died. “I have no confidence that the death toll provided...

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Buuut… how far is this from what he actually said? I’m sure it’s pretty close.
- What did he say?
  
  Ok, fine, after a quick look at news, these are the two main things said.
  
  In regard to the 7000+ dead reported by the hamas run health department:
  
  I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.
  
  Also:
  
  I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war.
When people try to tell me the democrats are too Liberal/left wing/progressive…yeah no, I wish they were.
“Obviously, statistics from Gaza are subject to bias, so we can’t use them to determine when the number of dead Palestinians has reached a sufficient level. Perhaps when the fog of war has cleared, we’ll realize Israel has killed more Gazans than was necessary, but now is not the time to ease up.”

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