Look Out, McCain: Biden Issues a Challenge on National Security | BuzzFlash.org
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by Christine Bowman
Senator Joe Biden is talking national security, and though no longer a candidate for the presidency, he just challenged Republican candidate John McCain on behalf of the Democrats on what some presume is McCain's main strength with voters.
"I think we as Democrats should not shy away from a direct confrontation with the Republicans on national security. The Democratic Party and the Democratic candidates are stronger on National security than George Bush or John McCain. ...
"The Democratic Party is not at all reluctant to debate national security with John McCain or George Bush. We are stronger on it, we will make America more secure and make it safer," he declared in an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."
In a speech delivered Tuesday at Georgetown University, Biden critiqued the GOP and laid out a Democratic foreign policy vision that contrasts sharply with Bush's and McCain's. He called fear "the main driver of our foreign policy" and said, "Even if you look at the world through this administration’s distorted lens, you see a failed policy. This failure flows from a dangerous combination of ideology and incompetence and a profound confusion about whom we’re fighting."
Biden also said in his speech that McCain's remark about staying "100 years in Iraq" fuels conspiracy theories about America's motives in the region. As he later told Olbermann, "When we say to the Arab world that we would stay in Iraq even in peaceful circumstances, it feeds the assumption that we're there to control their oil and to have a permanent base ..."
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden said that in two weeks of hearings prior to General Petraeus' much touted testimony, he heard from many in the defense and foreign policy establishments who have come to "the exact opposite conclusion" about the wisdom of a troop drawdown than had General Petraeus, Ambassador Crocker and George Bush.
** Biden talking like a real Senator, doing what he's paid to do! **
** Thank you Joe Biden **
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Conniepae
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Where is mainstream media. Senator Biden made these comments and MSM virtually ignores him? They pick and choose the information they report.
Americans are screaming for voices of reason, but when someone speaks with reason, MSM doesn't cover it. It's an 'Assault on Reason'.
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Conniepae
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phoenix_fire999
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Biden for VP!
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phoenix_fire999
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Conniepae
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VP is a pipe dream. He's not speaking as a candidate and we don't have to spin him into one. He is a Senator today, 'speaking for me' today!
I commend Joe Biden for what he is doing today! I hope he is the light we need, to shine the light on what is being done today!
I have posted this often and it's appropriate today:
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a Gift, that's why we call it PresentIf Joe Biden takes them to task today, it's a gift I will gladly accept today!
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Conniepae
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chet_arthur
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Biden for VP.
Please.
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chet_arthur
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VoyagerFilms
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My hats off to Senator Biden!
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