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02-12-2010, 11:34 AM
File this under “The Audacity of Biden.”
ABC News:
On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”
The vice president said he’d been to Iraq 17 times and visits the country every three months or so. “I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society” he said. “It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.”
At the briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Biden calling Iraq one of the great potential achievements of the Obama administration given that Biden had previously advocated that the country should be divided into thirds and split among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, and then-Sen. Obama opposing the surge of US troops that many experts argue helped bring stability that allowed the reconciliation process to continue.
In fact, in January 2007 then-Sen. Obama said that he was “not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
Gibbs said the achievement was “putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year.”
Let’s breath slowly here. Biden wanted to split Iraq into three parts based on ethnic borders. That is the equivalent of going into south during the 1950’s and giving blacks their own sections of Alabama and Mississippi. Calling it the United States of African America.
That would be overtly racist for black Americans as it would be for Iraqis.
The answer to segregation wasn’t to reward the bigots and the solution to ethnic unrest isn’t to draw lines in the sand separating each side with borders.
And these guys wanted a smaller American footprint. We invaded to save Iraq from a dictator and left the country split into three separate nation states or giant provinces.
Essentially Biden would reward sections of Baghdad that were ethnically cleansed by Iranian back murdering militias and violent Sunni al Qaeda terrorists. Great idea.
Obama and Biden claiming victory in Iraq is like me claiming to have invented the Pay Pal button. Patently false and laughable to be mentioned aloud.
You want Hubris… I present to you the modern example
ABC News:
On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”
The vice president said he’d been to Iraq 17 times and visits the country every three months or so. “I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society” he said. “It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.”
At the briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Biden calling Iraq one of the great potential achievements of the Obama administration given that Biden had previously advocated that the country should be divided into thirds and split among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, and then-Sen. Obama opposing the surge of US troops that many experts argue helped bring stability that allowed the reconciliation process to continue.
In fact, in January 2007 then-Sen. Obama said that he was “not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
Gibbs said the achievement was “putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year.”
Let’s breath slowly here. Biden wanted to split Iraq into three parts based on ethnic borders. That is the equivalent of going into south during the 1950’s and giving blacks their own sections of Alabama and Mississippi. Calling it the United States of African America.
That would be overtly racist for black Americans as it would be for Iraqis.
The answer to segregation wasn’t to reward the bigots and the solution to ethnic unrest isn’t to draw lines in the sand separating each side with borders.
And these guys wanted a smaller American footprint. We invaded to save Iraq from a dictator and left the country split into three separate nation states or giant provinces.
Essentially Biden would reward sections of Baghdad that were ethnically cleansed by Iranian back murdering militias and violent Sunni al Qaeda terrorists. Great idea.
Obama and Biden claiming victory in Iraq is like me claiming to have invented the Pay Pal button. Patently false and laughable to be mentioned aloud.
You want Hubris… I present to you the modern example