Biden continued to make the case that going into Iraq was justified in the months after the invasion and instead argued that the Bush administration bungled the execution of the war. It was not until 2005 that Biden acknowledged his vote was a “mistake.”
As the US War in Iraq continued to unravel in the spring of 2004, then-Sen. Joe Biden delivered a commencement speech at the University of Delaware where he addressed the original decision to go to war.
"Let me tell you what I see with Iraq," Biden told the graduates."We had to go into Iraq, not because Saddam was part of Al Qaeda, there was no evidence of that, not because he possessed nuclear weapons or because he posed an imminent threat to the United States, there was no evidence of that." "The legitimate reason for going into Iraq, was he violated every single commitment he made and warranted being taken down.
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