Posted on 04/09/2009 2:41:21 AM PDT by Scanian
Today, Vice President Joe Biden sings a different tune about the Iraq War than he sang 18 months ago.
This week, Biden spoke at a welcoming event for members of the XVIII Airborne Corps returning to Fort Bragg, N.C. after 15 months deployment in Iraq. He said,
Fifteen months ago, our country called you to serve in Iraq. For some of you this was not your first deployment. You arrived in a country that was on the brink of a civil war, a country that I first visited over six years ago...You went in the midst of what was an uncertain future for Iraq, and you left -- you left five or six days ago -- you left behind a country in which violence is being replaced by progress.
Over the course of your deployment, you dealt a serious blow to al Qaeda and Iraq by taking the fight to them in the north, by moving out into Anbar Province, by taking on the Shia extremists in the south, and by stemming the flow of weapons and foreign fighters along that broad, open, expansive border in Iraq. You helped secure the provincial elections, which I might add, as you'll remember, General, were very much in doubt. Everybody acts now like this was a done deal, this was a certainty, but it was not -- it was not. So you have made sure those provincial elections took place at the beginning of this year, the first of what will be basically four elections in that country.
If that’s not a declaration of ‘Mission Accomplished,” it’s sure close to it.
Compare those comments to what Biden said during a September 2007 Democratic Party primary debate:
Q: Do you accept the evaluation and interpretation by Gen. Petraeus
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Different President, different outcome of the war that the current President didn’t fight, but will take credit for ‘winning’.
Great post; American Thinker seems to have a lot of 'em.
They sure do. My favorite read to start the day. Glad you liked the post.
Yup, printing the news that the mainstream media won’t.
And they wonder why their circulation and viewerships numbers are down...
This is the closest we will ever see Biden associated with the concept of “Thinker” - getting undressed (again) for those who have eyes to see, ears to hear and brains to think.
The man is a disgrace. But, we already knew THAT.
THE VICE PLAGARIZER IN CHIEF INSERTING FOOT IN MOUTH AS USUAL! Anybody else would be embaressed for their Errors, ut NOT Plugs Biden! Biden is a walking Disaster who saed ZERO from a homosexual scandal with Larry Sinclair!
The administration is determined to win the military vote in 2010.
Will all be forgotten about demanding wounded troops being told to get their own health insurance as the government would not be paying for their medical care?
Will false promises ring true to our military and their families?
We can only pray that the truth prevails when it comes to this administration’s hatred of our military.
sickening putz....they will all say what is best for them at the time just to further their own personal cause and not for what is best for this country.
The ramblings of a typical brain addled ego-maniacal politician. Obama's first executive act, the selection of Biden, is proof of his naivety and incompetence. I guess when Obama said in Turkey "I am not naive", he should have added "nor incompetent". It could go down in history, along with Nixon: "I am not a crook".
Biden wanted to carve Iraq into 3 parts and shut down our involvement. Biden is incompetent.
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