Speaking of Joe “Smarter than you” Biden

The LA Times catches Joe Biden on the Larry King Show last night (Lord knows none of us would have caught it during our regular programming hours);

I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this 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.

I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. 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.

Hmm, lemme see what Biden’s record has been on Iraq. First he voted for the use of force against Hussein, then he told us the only way to pacify Iraq was to partition it by religious beliefs, then he told us that war was lost and we should just pull out. Sure, Biden visits Iraq frequently, but you have to wonder if he’d be doing that if we’d adopted any of his hare-brained schemes for Iraq.

And, oh, by the way, this administration’s “great achievement” in Iraq was brought about by the same policy the President and Vice President BOTH opposed in 2006 and 2007 – the “surge”. So how do they summon the chutpah to claim it as their achievement?

Perhaps they’d like to claim credit for the pacification of Germany and Japan, too, since we’re drawing down the forces in those two countries, too.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War