Biden: Too Soon to Declare Afghan War a Failure
Insists Wars Are 'On Track'
Speaking today at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Indiana, Vice President and war enthusiast Joe Biden declared that America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are both “on track” and that progress is being made in each.
The optimistic Biden chastized the public for believing that the nine year old Afghan War was a failure, insisting it was “much too soon” to judge what some are calling the longest war in American history. Recent polls have showed the vast majority of Americans opposing the conflict.
But Biden insists that the Obama Administration’s mulitple escalations and the installation of Gen. David Petraeus mean “we now are only beginning” in the Afghan War. He assured that the July 2011 drawdown date wouldn’t mean a pullout.
On the subject of Iraq, Biden mocked those who suggested that violence would rise ahead of the drawdown, insisting it “didn’t happen.” Last month saw the highest death toll of Iraqi civilians in over two years.
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seannielson
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Good, now they have admitted it.
Sean
Andron
August 24th, 2010 at 12:02 am
The Bible says "There are none so blind as those who will not see".
Did anybody take notice of the triumphal speech of President Bush telling the world "Mission Accomplished" or the smiling(?) President Obama informing us of the end of the Iraq war – a short time ago??
What are we thinking off if we don't believe a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and a honourable nan?
theothercanada
August 24th, 2010 at 12:56 am
The bloodthirsty Biden needs more dead Muslims to keep his Zionist masters happy.
O=W
August 24th, 2010 at 3:20 am
It's certainly not too early to call Biden a failure however…
boutet
August 24th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Vice President Biden is out Cheneying Cheney. Who thought such a thing possible? This is not leadership this is the betrayal of his oath of office which includes defending the United States Constitution.
skulz fontaine
August 24th, 2010 at 5:16 am
After almost nine years in the Afghaniscam and "we now are only beginning?" Biden is out of his freaking mind. The "Empire" needs it's war and the "Empire" needs it's loyal subjugated to play nice with the war. Would "you" let your child go to war for this clown?
liveload
August 24th, 2010 at 5:37 am
No one can out Cheney Cheney. The dark lord is without peer in that respect. He is a monument to himself. Biden is just that annoying uncle that keeps trying to get you to pull his finger at the Thanksgiving dinner table…
Tonyjoe
August 24th, 2010 at 6:24 am
Biden has obviously been into the opium! The Afghan War was LOST on the first day that an American troop stepped foot onto that land nine years ago. Joe Biden: "I am a Zionist" – YES, he is indeed – he is also an idiot and a moron.
ariadna
August 24th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Agree completely. What's there even to comment other than to observe in passing that Biden moos again. He'll be back to chewing his cud before the next moo.
ariadna
August 24th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Maybe not too early but it would be wrong.
Just as wrong as thinking that being so low on the ground the slug must have fallen.
Good luck
August 24th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
The actual quotation:
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:- Jeremiah 5:21
Some more Jeremiah:
The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end? – Jeremiah 5:31
Any more Jeremiah and I will start sounding like Westboro Baptist Church. But actually if you read one book of the bible these days, that's the one.
Oh, OK one more:
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. – Jeremiah 11:14
Good luck
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
.Biden is just that annoying uncle that made it impossible to discharge student loans during a normal bankruptcy
davey
August 24th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I say there is no GOD
Hypocrite
August 25th, 2010 at 2:27 am
What if Biden's, hillary's or Obama's childrens were killed in Irak or Afghanistan? The war will stop immediately and they will find a reason for that.
CertainQuirk
August 25th, 2010 at 8:59 am
What exactly is the mission? What will determine success?
As I recall, the mission was to find the WMD's in IRAQ, and that would mean our so-called "intelligence" lost the war before it ever began.
But we all know that this has nothing to do with any of the reasons we've been given for all this destruction, and it will be over when "they" say it is, for the reasons "they" determine.