Comments on: Joe Biden Is the Bomb http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/joe-biden-is-the-bomb Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: matttbastard http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/joe-biden-is-the-bomb/comment-page-1#comment-29375 matttbastard Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:24:50 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=3764#comment-29375 (Still, was nice to see Crocker sweat. ;-) ) (Still, was nice to see Crocker sweat. ;-) )

]]> By: matttbastard http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/joe-biden-is-the-bomb/comment-page-1#comment-29373 matttbastard Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:18:07 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=3764#comment-29373 No cookies for Joe - even if he knows how to preen for the cameras and drop a cute applause line at just the right moment, <a href="http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002195.html" rel="nofollow">he's still part of the problem</a>: <i>BIDEN: Based on what you've said, there's really no hope, is there? We should really get the hell out of there right now, right? There's nothing to do. ROSEN: <b>As a journalist, I'm uncomfortable advising an imperialist power about how to be a more efficient imperialist power. I don't think we're there for the interests of the Iraqi people. I don't that's ever been a motivation</b>. However, I have mixed emotions on that issue. Many of my Sunni friends, beginning about a year ago, many of them who are opposed to the Americans, who supported attacking American troops in Iraq, began to grow really nervous at the idea of the Americans leaving Iraq because they knew they would be massacred. It could be Rwanda the day the Americans leave. The creation of these Sunni militias, the Awakening groups, militates against that kind of a massacre of civilians occurring because now there are actually Sunni safe zones...But I do believe that if Americans were to withdraw you'd seen an increase in violence at least temporarily, until some sort of equilibrium is reached— BIDEN: <b>But the good news is we wouldn't be imperialist anymore in Iraq, from your perspective</b>. ROSEN: <b>(smiling widely) Only elsewhere in the region</b>. BIDEN: <b>Only elsewhere in the region. I'm sure glad we invited you, I tell you</b>. [Bloviates for ninety seconds, then turns to other witnesses.] Gentlemen, to the non-imperialist side of the witness stand...</i> Oh noes, Rosen spoke truth to power! How <i>rude</i>! No cookies for Joe – even if he knows how to preen for the cameras and drop a cute applause line at just the right moment, he’s still part of the problem:

BIDEN: Based on what you’ve said, there’s really no hope, is there? We should really get the hell out of there right now, right? There’s nothing to do.

ROSEN: As a journalist, I’m uncomfortable advising an imperialist power about how to be a more efficient imperialist power. I don’t think we’re there for the interests of the Iraqi people. I don’t that’s ever been a motivation. However, I have mixed emotions on that issue. Many of my Sunni friends, beginning about a year ago, many of them who are opposed to the Americans, who supported attacking American troops in Iraq, began to grow really nervous at the idea of the Americans leaving Iraq because they knew they would be massacred. It could be Rwanda the day the Americans leave. The creation of these Sunni militias, the Awakening groups, militates against that kind of a massacre of civilians occurring because now there are actually Sunni safe zones…But I do believe that if Americans were to withdraw you’d seen an increase in violence at least temporarily, until some sort of equilibrium is reached—

BIDEN: But the good news is we wouldn’t be imperialist anymore in Iraq, from your perspective.

ROSEN: (smiling widely) Only elsewhere in the region.

BIDEN: Only elsewhere in the region. I’m sure glad we invited you, I tell you. [Bloviates for ninety seconds, then turns to other witnesses.] Gentlemen, to the non-imperialist side of the witness stand…

Oh noes, Rosen spoke truth to power! How rude!

]]> By: The Bushies, Osama bin Laden, and Common Sense « Liberty Street http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/joe-biden-is-the-bomb/comment-page-1#comment-29363 The Bushies, Osama bin Laden, and Common Sense « Liberty Street Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:53:25 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=3764#comment-29363 [...] border is the more serious threat to U.S. interests than Al Qaeda in Iraq, as Joe Biden got Ryan Crocker to admit at the Petraeus hearings today, then where would common sense tell you Osama bin Laden would prefer [...] [...] border is the more serious threat to U.S. interests than Al Qaeda in Iraq, as Joe Biden got Ryan Crocker to admit at the Petraeus hearings today, then where would common sense tell you Osama bin Laden would prefer [...]

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