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Another, 'It's OK as long as a Democrat is the President.' By, Joe Biden, From 2001

Posted on 03/30/2011 6:04:46 AM PDT by maineman

Sen. Biden Questions Airstikes’ Drudge Report ^ | Wed Oct 24 2001 10:22:37 ET | Wilmington News Journal

Posted on 10/24/2001 10:47:54 PM by tomball

The top Democratic lawmaker on foreign policy said Monday that unless the bombing of Afghanistan ends “sooner rather than later,” America risks looking like a “high-tech bully,” the Wilmington News Journal reports.

“Every moment it goes on, it makes the aftermath problems more severe,” said Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan group of foreign policy experts, Biden said he understands the bombing is required to help safeguard U.S. special forces operations, and that requirement creates a difficult balance.

Biden stressed that, like most Democrats, he has supported President Bush - but the “honeymoon’ might get rockier soon.”

“The longer the bombing goes on, the more susceptible we are to criticism, justified and unjustified, in the Islamic world,” he said.

“With every hour that passes, the United States pays an escalating price in the Arab world, and faces complaints that it is a high-tech bully that only attacks from the air.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; cfr; hypocrisy; libya; vpotus

1 posted on 03/30/2011 6:04:49 AM PDT by maineman
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“With every hour that passes, the United States pays an escalating price in the Arab world, and faces complaints that it is a high-tech bully that only attacks from the air.”

Great one, Joe. How's that working out in Libya?

2 posted on 03/30/2011 7:29:03 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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