Joe Biden--SHUT UP! Uh...on second thought...forget what I said

Joe Biden actually said something that made me not want to stuff a sock in his mouth.

Wow.

Biden says that the troops should get the hell out of Iraq by the summer if the Iraqis can't get their act together.

"We can't want peace in Iraq more than the Iraqis want it," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We can't want it more than they want it. And if they don't step up to the ball, we're going to be gone."

Biden said if knew what he knows now when Congress voted on the Iraq war resolution, he would have opposed it. "This has been a debacle," he said.


Oh. My. Not only is Joe calling for withdrawal, but he also says he wouldn't have supported the war knowing what he does now.

The teeny-tiny cynical voice in me is saying that Joe is probably saying this stuff with an eye on a presidential run (no, Joe, just no), but the optimist in me is applauding him for saying this.

Congresscritters and senators on both sides of the aisle need to follow Murtha, Biden, and Congressman Walter B. Jones not only in calling for withdrawal, but in saying, "If I knew then what I know now."

Naturally, fellow 2008 hopeful George Allen is against a timetable. And Karl Rove gave the usual blather about why the US should stay the course. C'mon, guys. Those talking points don't fly anymore.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tell us something we don't already know

The MTA is clueless. Man, if you need a place to vent or learn the full story behind mass transit horror stories, check out Gothamist. The MTA admitted that the service was not acceptable on many accounts, from the flooding to the fact that the MTA's website was overwhelmed. Then there's also the fact that the MTA was urging people not to take the subways and opt for a bus instead, only for buses to be (A) few and far between and (B) crowded as anything. They forgot to mention "(C) fucking slow." Don't the people at the MTA feel really stupid when they say shit like this? MTA CEO Lee Sander said, "We really are sorry about the inconvenience that New Yorkers had to deal with. In terms of how it happened, we had three inches of rain in an hour. The system is designed to handle 1.5 inches." This isn't quite as appalling as last year's 9-day Queens blackout--you know, the one where Con Ed lied about the number of places without power--but it still in
Read more

We're the ones we've been waiting for, and all that

Via Blue Wave News , Van Jones' speech at the Campus Progress National Conference, which rang true to this cautiously optimistic liberal. More from Mr. Jones, via HuffPo: We are trying to build a pro-democracy movement in a country that, at least for eight years, was run by [inaudible] authoritarians. And it is not going to be easy. But I tell you, the most important thing I can say is... We feed the fearmongers. We feed the politics of division, by giving it so much attention and letting it fill up the space in our mind. We have to feed the hope. This country is an extraordinary -- I get choked up -- this is an incredible, beautiful country... That little idiot box off in the corner trying to depress you and make you feel like this is a horrible country and everybody believes evil things about the president... it is just not true. Cut it off, just cut it off and walk down the street and talk to real people in this country. They are sophisticated. They are wise. They don't kno
Read more