Senator Biden (D) reaffirms he's a candidate & Sunday Talk show comments
Biden's comments on Meet the Press were spot on the sentiment of regarding where the country is regarding Iraq. He said the Administration and this President are not leveling with the American people. He said the American people know things aren't going well there, that it is incomprehensible that we still don't have the right body armor protection for our troops, as was described in the NY Times today. Senator Biden said he has no confidence in Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the President should fire him, because everything that could go wrong there has gone wrong there.
On another Sunday show, Sen. John McCain also said he has lost confidence of Rumsfeld.
On Chris Mathews NBC show this morning, NY Times correspondent, David Brookes, said, "Senator Biden and Sen. Clinton are the only Democrats that have given specifics as to how to improve the situation in Iraq" (but there suggestions have fallen on deaf ears is apparent I would say).
Senator Biden reiterated his plans to seek nomination from his party to run for President in 2008 after visiting recently in the "Red States" and being encouraged to run.
Henry Kissinger when asked on Wolf Blitzer's The New Iraq this morning, about whether what is starting to happen in Iraq today is reminicent of what happened in Vietnam. Kissinger in his response seemed to blame the anti-war movement for what happened rather thatn a failed policy of the Nixon Administation and previous Administrations. My question is thisWhen are these current and former policy makers going to take responsibility for their failures? They want to blame the American people for what was wrong in Vietnam and now in Iraq other than a failed policy and strategy. Why didn't Rumsfeld consider more troops when he was advised to going into the war from his top General? We should reinstate the General and have him get Iraq right. As Senator Biden said today, "If Donald Rumsfeld was a CEO he would have been fired long ago!!!"
posted by Charles Amico at 10:01 AM
1 Comments:
If Rumsfield had a real plan, it wouldn't have included invading Iraq in the first place. That decision is both a sign of W's leadership and Rummies incompetence.
Unfortunaetly this sound bite politics that is starting up again is NOT the answer to our problems. In my not so humble opinion I think we need to bring the whole lot of them to heel. We the people (I like that phrase ) need to remind these "leaders" that it is OUR country and OUR government and that they actually only work for us.
Being a senator or congressman doesn't make a man any smarter in foeriegn policy or ecomnomics than the man in the street. In fact the isolationist mentally of congress (they get raises when other people don't) begs the question of how much they really understand.
Do they understand what happens to a person's paycheck when the interest rates double or when the COLA (cost of living adjustment) pushes theminto the AMT? No way. If they did they'd fix it with no argument. Somethings just aren't partison politics.
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