Posted on 04/05/2008 8:39:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is failure
16 minutes ago
A leading Democrat on Saturday declared last year's troop buildup in Iraq a failure.
Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the military push didn't succeed because U.S. troops remain committed there in large numbers and political reconciliation has not been achieved.
"The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically," said Biden, D-Del., in this week's Democratic radio address. "Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together."
He later added, "There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon."
Biden offered an early rebuttal to next week's testimony by Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador there. Petraeus and Crocker are expected to say the recent buildup in troops has succeeded in improving security. But they also likely will say that a period of assessment is needed this summer before officials can decide whether troop withdrawals can continue.
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F#*&k Him
There ... fixed it.
How can anyone so stupid continue to be elected. Oh wait i know, by those who are more stupid than him.
LOL. How's the democrat party doing, Joe?
Dumbest man in the Senater.
By Biden’s measuring stick, the Dimocrats should have totally ended poverty and crime in the U. S. many years ago.
Sheesh, I wonder who Biden heard say what he’s quoted as saying here so he could “appropriate” their words?
Laying claim once again to the right to be called Slow Joe.
Newsflash: Biden proves himself as clueless as ever, still likes to hear himself talk.
Even Hillary!08 sees keeping 80,000 troops in the region forever or until nobody wants the oil anymore. O’Bama, bowling 37, would throw in the towel in the first round.
I think Deleware, New Jersey, Maryland and the Philadelphia SMSA should be combined into one state, and their allotted number of senators would then decrease to 2.
Hmmmmm ..?? I seem to recall somebody by the name of Limbaugh who predicted this very opinion from the libs.
The libs are never satisfied - no matter what you do they will find something else to complain about.
Just like hillary most democrats have become a joke. Who listens to anything they say anymore?
Hey joe.....pay attention.
The war is won. The political process is now free to sort its self out.
Life and history are not a football game. They are an ongoing process.
By your reasoning the USA is doomed because for the last two years the party running the hHouse and Senate have failed miserably to accomplish any thing.
Hey Joe.......those hair plugs look like a failure too!
Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is a failure
There. I fixed it.
It's like the short and nasty review of a new play. "This play is both good and original. The parts that are good aren't original, and the parts that are original aren't good."
Congressman Billybob
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