Posted on 07/04/2009 12:16:02 PM PDT by Merciful_Friend
Vice-President Joe Biden presided in Baghdad over a naturalization ceremony, where 237 U.S. troops -- comprising immigrants from places such as Mexico and Haiti and also some native Iraqi interpreters -- were sworn in as American citizens. The ceremony took place in the late Saddam Hussein's former Al-Faw Palace. CNN quotes the VP:
We did it in Saddam's palace and I can think of nothing better. That S.O.B. is rolling over in his grave right now.
So, there's the Vice-President of the United States, publicly spitting on Saddam Hussein's grave and reveling in the performance of an American ceremony of naturalization in one of his former residences.
Do I have a problem with it? Not particularly. To the victor go the spoils, as they say, and the U.S. military sure beat the hell out of Saddam, and he deserved no less than what he got; it was ultimately a treatment considerably kinder than that which he meted out to the Iraqi people for decades.
What I'm trying to imagine, however, is the reaction that would ensue had such remarks been made by President Bush or Vice-President Cheney: standing on Iraqi territory, with U.S. flags flying high, and rejoicing in that son-of-a-bitch Saddam Hussein rolling over in his grave. How gauche. How jingoistic. How coarse. Cowboy diplomacy isn't even the half of it. "This is exactly what the world hates about America," is what we'd be told by our nannies on the New York Times editorial page and elsewhere. Needlessly provocative, inflammatory and juvenile.
And those would be just some of the milder criticisms we'd have heard if Bush or Cheney had ever spoken like this in such a context (which, of-course, they did not).
But I don't criticize Joe for it. I hope the troops got ...
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe! Tough guy! LOL!
I’m recalling Joe’s wife making the comment that he was offered the SOS or the VP job. He chose the VP job because it would mean less travel. Well, seems like he is traveling more than the lil broken down Hill.
Lil Hill didn’t travel to Russia this week because of her elbow boo boo.
A broken elbow wouldn’t prevent her from traveling, I think there is some truth that her and 0 are having issues. She is more of a man than 0 is.
So now Biden thinks the Iraq war was correct? LOL, my how things and times change
DUMBOCRAPS are the Scourge of the EARTH! and “PLUGS” BIDEN is the “Poster Moron” for all of them!
PRESIDENT GEORGE WALKER BUSH and OUR GREAT MILITARY ANNIHILATED SADDAM HUSSEIN AND FREED 30 Million IRAQI’S over the Protests, Traitorous Sabotage and the Dispicable Acts and Lies of Scumbags like Murtha, Biden, Pelosi, Dinghy Harry and OBIE HUSSEIN, Jr. and these scumbags NOW try to take credit for those Brave Acts! Curses on Them, the Dumborats of AMERICA! :-)
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICA!!
HILDABEAST and The MUSLIM PHANTOM TOTUS are at WAR!! She knows Everything about that pathetic bag of camel dung and can’t stand his amateurish, juvenile and mentally unbalanced circus side show antics! We can say what we want about HILDA, but she isn’t stupid like the Chicago Con-Artist:-)
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/08/23/politics/fromtheroad/entry4376910.shtml
Actually,her taking SOS was a dumb move rather then staying
on as a Senator.This from the smartest woman in the world.
You had nothing to do with the success in Iraq.
NOTHING.
Neither did yur buddy Barky.
Nothing at all. You people tried to derail it.
And we haven't forgotten.
Hope you're enjoying the sandstorm, Plugs.
Sad, the World is laughing at Joe, and therfore all of us!
Agree.
And yes, she is no dumbazz.
0 cut a deal with Bill and Hill. I know they had tons of dirt on him that they were ready to go public with.
Really waiting to see how this train wreck works out. Crossing fingers is exposed by them for the 0 he really is.
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