Biden Fires Back at Republicans on Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

Biden Fires Back at Republicans on Iraq
Senator Faults Bush, Rumsfeld for Favoring Attacks Over Solutions
By ED O'KEEFE

Sept. 3, 2006 — Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., shot back at the White House after a week of Bush administration speeches attempted to portray the war in Iraq as the central front in the war on terror and Democrats as appeasers who had not learned the lessons of past conflicts.

In an exclusive appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Biden responded to a quartet of hard-line speeches from nearly every top administration official.

"When you run out of ideas, what you do is attack," he said.

"What is the plan for Iraq?" Biden repeatedly demanded. "There is no political solution offered here, there is no plan."
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http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2389647&page=1

[Deja Q]

1. Bidet has proven himself to be a fool in the past.

Why should we believe him now?

The fact he's restorting to rhetoric doesn't help either; we all know there is no plan and nothing BUT attacks. The fact he can't come up with anything - from either side - only makes him look the joke he is.

Indeed, knowing what oil goes into, we (as a country) may now be in a war we're going to HAVE to support. (unless you like the idea of mass starvation to the tune of 300 million plus the population of Europe and even the urban areas of China and India, also dependent on oil-based crops...)

In other words: It's a no-win scenario. How the hell DOES one respond to a no-win scenario?

[wtmusic]

4. Question

What's an oil-based crop? :shrug:

[NOLADEM]

7. I think what he was inferring

Is that it takes a HUGE amount of oil products to produce most crops. Fertilizer, Pesticide, Fuel for tractors, etc.

I didnt get the rest though

[rodeodance]

5. Biden has a 3 prong plan that I think is quite reasonable. I am sure you

can find it on the net.

The fact he can't come up with anything - from either side - only makes him look the joke he is.....

[rodeodance]

2. he is right, we respond to attachs from RW--not the substance

[rodeodance]

3. "The administration's very flat footed; it's almost dysfunctional....

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Rumsfeld's comments, which drew parallels between "appeasing" Nazi Germany and the debate surrounding the modern war on terror, evoked ire, particularly from Democrats.

"He knew exactly what he was doing," Biden told ABC News. "The only similarity I find between this war and World War II is that this war is shortly going to have lasted as long as World War II.

"The administration's very flat footed; it's almost dysfunctional right now," Biden said.

Biden rejected the administration's coordinated assertion that "Islamic fascists" were in some way a unified front.

[independentpiney]

12. He missed one WWII similarity

They both were started with preemptive attacks.

[bemildred]

6. Joe looks like he's had some "work" done. nt

[NOLADEM]

8. Joe is a buffoon

He pushes his way to the front of the line to holler the latest fad, then goes back to being a do-nothing DLC Credit Card Shill.

Good speaker. Disingenuous man behind the mask.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Yep, but when Biden runs out of patience on Iraq, you know it's time...

to withdraw. Bush and Anne Coulter are the only ones that think that things are going "swimmingly" (Coulter's words) in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[badgervan]

10. Addicted To Cameras

Too many of our dem "spokespeople" love the camera way too much. We need more Paul Hackett types on the cable news shows.

[freeplessinseattle]

11. "exclusive apparance"

as if it's so hard to get him in front of the camera