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Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is failure
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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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 110th; biden; defeatists; handwringers; iraq; supportthemission; supportthetroops; surge
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Horses rear end.......
1 posted on 04/05/2008 8:39:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

F#*&k Him


2 posted on 04/05/2008 8:41:05 AM PDT by woofie
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Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is a failure

There ... fixed it.

3 posted on 04/05/2008 8:42:02 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you torture the data long enough, it will confess, even to crimes it did not commit")
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How can anyone so stupid continue to be elected. Oh wait i know, by those who are more stupid than him.


4 posted on 04/05/2008 8:42:41 AM PDT by chiefqc
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"There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon."

LOL. How's the democrat party doing, Joe?

Dumbest man in the Senater.

5 posted on 04/05/2008 8:43:01 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person)
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To: Sub-Driver

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?


6 posted on 04/05/2008 8:43:45 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Sub-Driver

Laying claim once again to the right to be called Slow Joe.


7 posted on 04/05/2008 8:43:50 AM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: Sub-Driver

Newsflash: Biden proves himself as clueless as ever, still likes to hear himself talk.


8 posted on 04/05/2008 8:44:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Typical White American)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


9 posted on 04/05/2008 8:46:06 AM PDT by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


10 posted on 04/05/2008 8:47:22 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Sub-Driver; All

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.


11 posted on 04/05/2008 8:47:58 AM PDT by CyberAnt (AMERICA: The greatest nation on the face of the earth.)
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Just like hillary most democrats have become a joke. Who listens to anything they say anymore?


12 posted on 04/05/2008 8:48:37 AM PDT by jackv (DEMOCRATS HATE BUSH MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!!!)
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Want to see a failure Senator? Look at your plug job. Why do the folks in Delaware keep voting this piece of trash into office.
13 posted on 04/05/2008 8:49:42 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (So long Myron. Call the Steelers games from heaven.)
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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.


14 posted on 04/05/2008 8:50:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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HEY!
Hey!! All you LIBEREALs, Leftie Loons, and DemocRATS

15 posted on 04/05/2008 8:50:19 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Troops: Sen. Biden a Failure
16 posted on 04/05/2008 8:50:43 AM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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Hey Joe.......those hair plugs look like a failure too!


17 posted on 04/05/2008 8:52:13 AM PDT by vietvet67
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Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is failure

Sen. Biden: Troop buildup is a failure

There. I fixed it.

18 posted on 04/05/2008 8:53:48 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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Despite hair plugs and years of help from staff, the presence of Joe Biden of Delaware in the US Senate has turned out to be a failure. Consider that when he gives a stirring speech it turns out to be stolen. When he speaks on his own, he's dismal.

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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Help a Freeper into Congress.

19 posted on 04/05/2008 8:55:48 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob ( www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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Tell us all about your military service, Joe. What's that, you never served a day in the military, even though you're in the Vietnam War age group? So how do you have any more authority on this issue than any one of us? Many of us here served our country in the Armed Forces, and we ain't buyin’ whatever the hell it is you're selling, Senator Plagiarist!
20 posted on 04/05/2008 8:57:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (http://www.fourfriedchickensandacoke.blogspot.com)
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