Biden: Don’t trust McCain on Iran
In his vice presidential acceptance speech [at 20:34 in the video], Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) used the candidate's contrasting approaches on Iran as one of the distinctions he drew on foreign policy:
"Should we trust John McCain's judgment when he rejected talking with Iran and then asked: What is there to talk about? Or Barack Obama, who said we must talk and make it clear to Iran that its conduct must change. Now, after seven years of denial, even the Bush administration recognizes that we should talk to Iran, because that's the best way to advance our security. Again, John McCain was wrong. Barack Obama was right."
Obama drew criticism from his onetime primary opponent Hillary Clinton and from Republicans for his statement last year that he would be willing to meet with the president of Iran, and he and Biden were two of just two dozen senators to oppose an amendment urging the declaration of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist group. But the campaign has been making the case that the Obama-Biden policy on Iran would be more effective.
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Yid with Lid reports that Biden threatened Menachim Begin by saying he would cut off aid to Israel.
Heard in August 1939:
“Should we trust Winston Churchill’s judgment when he rejected talking with Nazi Germany and then asked: What is there to talk about? Or Neville Chamberlain, who said we must talk and make it clear to Nazi Germany that its conduct must change. Now, after seven years of denial, even the Chamberlain administration recognizes that we should talk to Hitler, because that’s the best way to advance our security. Again, Winston Churchill was wrong. Neville Chamberlain was right.”
That quote is a fabrication, and would be irrelevant even if genuine. By August 1939 Germany had already annexed Austria, dismembered Czechoslovakia, and supported Franco’s destruction of the Spanish Republic and Mussolini’s attack on Ethiopia. The invasion of Poland was days away.
Iran has attacked no other country, and hasn’t the means to. Even if its leaders had the desire, and missiles that worked, what country could Iran attack? Saudi Arabia? Oops, heavily armed, with U.S. forces in its territory. Pakistan? Oops, nukes. Iraq? Oops, U.S. and allied forces still there. Israel? Oops, nukes. Get real.
But Israel has nukes, and a history of attacking its neighbors. If you like 1939 analogies, let’s put the shoes where they fit: Israel is Germany, and Iran is Poland.
If you ruled Iran, what would you be doing now?
I don’t trust Biden. He who manufactures falsehoods is one not to be trusted and he listed many fabrications of supposed fact in his acceptance speech. All one has to do is check the records of many of his supposed facts.
Just one example is the lie that Obama was the one who revealed the scandal of the treatment of Veterans his writing and supporting the bill.
Fact. The news was brought out by the Washington Post. He did not write nor was Obama involved in the development of the bill to aid U.S. Veterans. He was out campaigning in the primaries for the 91 days from the inception of the bill to its passing. I guess his not being there nor involved is what the accolytes of Obama call help.
Nuff Said
Archie
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David K.
08/28/08 02:23 AM
Considering Iran’s track record of ignoring numerous offers and deadlines put forth by the West, “we should talk to Iran” translates as “we must provide Iran the time it needs to obtain nuclear weapons”.