Biden Calls Staying In Iraq “Intolerable”
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden says Republican Sen. John McCain would continue President Bush’s practice of pursuing the war in Iraq at the expense of other urgent global issues.
“When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip,” Biden said Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University.
“When it comes to Iraq, there will be no change with a McCain administration … and so there is a real and profound choice for Americans in November.”
McCain, the certain Republican presidential nominee, backs Bush’s policy in Iraq and favored last year’s increase in U.S. troops in the country.
“John McCain remains wedded to the Bush administration’s myopic view of a world defined by terrorism. He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority,” Biden said.
“It is time for a total change in Washington’s world view. That will require more than a great soldier. It will require a wise leader.”
Asked whether Biden was right, McCain argued anew that he spent four years before the troop influx pressing for more forces, and he said the right strategy is now in place.
“I’m always pleased to get Senator Biden’s advice and counsel,” McCain told reporters in Pennsylvania. But, McCain said: “The present strategy is succeeding in Iraq and I respect the view of those who don’t agree.”
Biden accused the Bush administration of squandering the ability of the U.S. to shape such emerging issues as the increasing influence of China and India, the resurgence of Russia, the unification Europe, the spread of dangerous weapons and lethal diseases, the impact of climate change, and shortages of secure sources of energy, water and food, among others.
Instead, the war in Iraq “stands like a boulder in the road between us and the credibility we need to lead in the world and the flexibility we require to meet our challenges at home,” Biden said.
“We should debate the consequences of drawing down in Iraq,” Biden said. “But more importantly, we should talk about what both President Bush and Senator McCain refuse to acknowledge: the increasingly intolerable costs of staying.”
Biden dropped out of the Democratic presidential race after Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses. He has not taken sides in the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
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Senator, you being in the state next door is intolerable.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:54 pmDear Senator Biden, watching your antics on Capitol Hill is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. There’s a documentary film airing on Showtime before the November Election that may in fact end your party’s quest for power for the next twenty years.
I can hardly wait to see how it turns out.
PS - Pat,
April 15th, 2008 at 11:32 pmWe have to flee, how else can we dems cuase another 9/11 and live up to our reputation as spineless cunts.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:12 amThat is a good picute of him for a caption contest.
My entry, “the strap-on Hillary used on me was THAT big”
April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I call having the Democrats in control of Congress — intolerable.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:34 amJust a few years ago he was saying that a timetable was a retarded idea!
April 16th, 2008 at 5:45 amSenator Biden, you and your whacked out dem wrecking crew are INTOLERABLE
A look at his list of “emerging issues” and “challenges at home” is very clearly why they are intolerable - most of these are either non-issues (ie. important to dem/liberals only) or are issues where he and his wrecking crew are THEMSELVES the problem (ie shortages of energy, water and food) Let’s drill in Anwar (
) you idiots and take advantage of our own energy.
The “tiny minority” that is keeping terrorism on the front burner will very quickly become an overwhelming majority the day after another 9-11 event - an event which Biden and his crew are enabling, and will be completely powerless to circumvent if they (god help us all) end up at the controls.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:30 amHave you all noticed that when the Dem’s talk about getting out of Iraq. It is allways about the Cost $ of war? Money means more than winning to them! (Assholes)
April 16th, 2008 at 9:01 amBiden is the intollerable one. He and his slumber party compadres are the most despicable group of individuals that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:51 amBiden!, How about getting out of our 40 year ‘war on poverty’ that you dems keep on and are in a quagmire. How much $$$$ has that cost? You haven’t even won or lost that one because you get VOTES keeping people dependent on you.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm