looked me in the eye, needed a vote to get inspectors in to iraq to determine what saddam hussein was engaged with a nuclear program. then we had shock and awe. the moment it started i came out against the war at that moment. sean: a problem with all of this, biden was still publicly backing the war for many, many months, more than he s claiming. here s a sample of his remarks in 2003 m and 2004. joe needs to learn to tell the truth. some of my own party have said it wass a mistake to go to iraq in the first place. and believe that it s not worth the cost, whatever benefit may flow. from our engagement in iraq. but the cost of not acting against saddam, i think, would have been much greater. and so is the cost and so will be the cost of not finishing this job.