Pete Wehner deflates E.J. Dionne’s hope that Barack Obama will consider choosing Joe Biden as his running mate:
The problem is that the two most important policy decisions related to Iraq were the decision to go to war in the first place and the President’s embrace of the so-called surge. On the former, Biden justified his support of the use of force resolution by saying, among other things
Saddam is dangerous. The world would be a better place without him. But the reason he poses a growing danger to the United States and its allies is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and is seeking nuclear weapons,[…]
During his January 8, 2007 appearance on “Imus in the Morning,” Biden said, “there’s a civil war that can – will not be affected by us putting in 20,000 or 30,000 or 40,000 troops. It will not change the dynamic.”
Saddam is dangerous. The world would be a better place without him. But the reason he poses a growing danger to the United States and its allies is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and is seeking nuclear weapons,[…]
During his January 8, 2007 appearance on “Imus in the Morning,” Biden said, “there’s a civil war that can – will not be affected by us putting in 20,000 or 30,000 or 40,000 troops. It will not change the dynamic.”
Wehner notes the many other ways in which Biden–who had once argued there were too few troops in Iraq–became a chief opponent of the surge. Go read the whole thing here.
