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During debate on the binding Iraq-withdrawal bill that would require George W. Bush to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq within one year, Joe Biden rips Rep...
Amanda Carpenter: Does Biden Undermine Obama's FP?
townhall.com 8/23/2008 — I think this will be the big question of the day. Joe voted for the Iraq war, just like Hillary and everybody else did. Obama bashed Hillary on this over and over again through the primaries and yet Obama picks a VP who...
Biden in Iraq
corner.nationalreview.com 8/23/2008 — It didn't take long for the RNC types to forward this around, from Reuters:
VP choice Biden unpopular in Iraq for autonomy plan
BAGHDAD - Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and ...
Joe Biden
justoneminute.typepad.com 8/24/2008 — Joe Biden is the VP pick. It's interesting how far off the table the war in Iraq has fallen as an issue for the Democrats - Biden voted for the fateful resolution in 2002 (isn't this all about judgment?) and...
Biden and the AUMF
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 8/24/2008 —
There’s a lot of interest, naturally, in Joe Biden’s vote in favor of the 2002 Iraq AUMF. Fortunately, Biden is much more disposed to deliver long talks on foreign policy than is your average Senator, so it’s possible to put his ...
No Netroots Sweetheart
hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com 8/25/2008 —
Although most liberal bloggers are comfortable with Barack Obama 's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate, few are excited about it. Biden has never made much of an effort to reach out to the netroots (he was the only Democratic Presidential ...
Biden and Obama on Iraq —
Matthew Yglesias
In addition to questions about Joe Biden’s position on Iraq in 2002-2003 a lot of people are wondering what happened to Joe Biden’s forward-looking proposal for Iraq. His plan, which has oft been characterized as a scheme of “partition” or “soft partition” but which he and Les Gelb deemed “Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq” , was unveiled in the ...
Can Biden criticize McCain on foreign policy? —
The Next Right
The conventional wisdom of Barack Obama's Joe Biden pick is that he will be an attack dog, especially on foreign policy, where he has the most credibility. But there's a problem. In April, I wrote a litlte about Joe Biden :
Over the last couple of years, he has resisted the far-left at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, by refusing to demagogue the Iraq issue. He has generally pushed ...
Iraqis Upset At Choice Of Biden - Sectarian Unity In Hatred —
Pat Dollard | Young Americans
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq’s feuding Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way.
Across racial and religious boundaries, Iraqi politicians on Saturday bemoaned Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s choice of running mate, known in Iraq as the author of a 2006 ...
No wonder Joe Biden is unpopular in Iraq —
TigerHawk
Reuters is reporting that Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden is not popular among Iraqis, who very much dislike Biden's proposal to partition their country.
Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way.
Across racial and religious boundaries, Iraqi politicians on Saturday bemoaned
McCain criticizes Biden-Gelb —
Ben Smith's Blog
In an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, McCain criticized Joe Biden's 2006 plan to divide Iraq into three loosely federated parts, a plan that was the core of his own presidential bid.
"I've always respected Joe Biden, but I disagreed with him from the time he voted against the first Gulf War to his position where he said you had to break Iraq up into three different countries," ...
The Biden Myth —
The Corner on National Review Online
I'm puzzled why many press reports about Joe Biden touting his foreign-policy expertise and using as example the plan he supported to divide Iraq into three ethnic enclaves. This was a terrible notion, and would have led to far more violence in Iraq than anything we have seen there, along the lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, but worse. It would have taken one security challenge and given ...
Biden at CAP —
Matthew Yglesias
Conveniently enough, the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted a Joe Biden event a few months ago at which he delivered a speech about Iraq and foreign policy more generally. You can watch the whole thing . This seems insightful and well-put to me:
Biden argued that the costs of our involvement in Iraq have outweighed the benefits and have ironically strengthened the greatest ...
Day By Day by Chris Muir August 23, 2008 —
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
Day By Day by Chris Muir
With Barack Obama’s choice of pro-Iraq War Resolution voting Senator Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential choice, the New York Times and other left leaning MSM press outfits will have a more difficult time in spinning: Obama is right on the Iraq War. Didn’t Joe Biden propose to divde Iraq into tres partes?
The Iraq War is drawing to a close and will ...
Biden Clip Reel —
Matthew Yglesias
Via James Fallows, here’s a kind of greatest hits reel of Joe Biden at a Democratic debate:
From a Heads in the Sand point of view, I’d be much happier if Joe Biden had opposed the 2002 Iraq AUMF. And even beyond that, I don’t always agree with his substantive positions on the issues. But one clear asset he has is that like only a handful of other prominent ...
Obama Makes the Right Choice —
The Moderate Voice
As the selection of Joe Biden becomes clear , the only remaining mystery is how political observers could have possibly doubted that Obama would make it.
Stooping to self-quotation , “It is more than Biden’s years in the Senate that recommend him. During the Democratic primary debates, the phrase ‘Joe is right’ was heard so often that it became the theme of his ...
Joe-Mentum?... Obama Picks Pro-Iraq War Plagiarizer Biden For VP —
Gateway Pundit
So much for "hope and change"... Barack Obama picked long-winded Senator Joe Biden from Delaware for his running mate it was announced this morning. He is asking for donations on his website. The AP says the "newly minted ticket" will perform today in Springfield, Illinois the hometown of Republican Abe Lincoln: Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential ...
JOE BIDEN OPPOSED THE SURGE AND SAID IT COULDN'T WORK —
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
BIDEN IS OFTEN PORTRAYED AS AN EXPERT ON FOREIGN POLICY. BWAHAHAHAHA! BIDEN - LIKE OBAMA - OPPOSED THE SURGE. INSTEAD OF THE SURGE, BIDEN WANTED TO CHAT TO IRAN. HE WAS WRONG. HE FAVORED APPEASEMENT. HE WAS WRONG. HE FAVORED PARTITION - HE WAS WRONG AGAIN. WATCH HIM IN THIS VIDEO DISPLAY HIS OWN INCOMPETENCE AND IDIOCY. [ASIDE: IN THIS VIDEO, BIDEN ALSO DEMANDS PUBLIC FINANCING OF ...
Biden's Son Off to Iraq —
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By Shailagh Murray As Sen. Barack Obama closes in on his running mate pick, one prospect with clear momentum is Sen. Joseph Biden Jr. Even difficult news for the Delaware Democrat personally has added a compelling twist to his case. On Oct. 3, Biden's son, Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III, will be deployed to Iraq. "I don't want him going," Biden told an Iowa state fair crowd a year ago, ...
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