He Must Be Joking: Biden Says ‘Iranian Influence in Iraq Is Minimal’
The sectarian violence that continues to plague Iraq is also partly the result of Iran’s playing of both sides. It is no secret that Iran supports the Shiite end of the violence, but the regime also is involved in Sunni attacks on Shiites.
On January 9, 2008, the Treasury Department blacklisted Ahmed Forouzandeh, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards’ elite al-Quds Force. Forouzandeh’s Iranian intelligence staff was attacking Iraqi officials and security personnel, and in mid-February 2007, they were commanded to attack Shiites in order to provoke sectarian violence. Of course, the U.S. still refuses to drop the myth that Islamic extremists of different ideologies don’t work together, causing the Iraqi foreign minister to criticize America’s close-mindedness on the issue.
Furthermore, the Iraqi intelligence chief resigned after massive bombings shook Baghdad in August 2009. He had reportedly received proof of Iranian involvement, but Prime Minister al-Maliki told his staff not to officially accuse Iran. This continued a long-standing practice of only referring to “neighbors” when discussing the terrorists’ backers.
If Iranian influence is so “minimal” as Biden said, then why is there such a reluctance to state the obvious truth?
The August 2009 bombings carry another lesson. The Iraqis had enough of Syrian support for terrorism in their country and took matters into their own hands. They bluntly threatened the Assad regime and released proof after proof of Syrian sponsorship of terrorists, including al-Qaeda, and publicly blamed Syria for the Baghdad bombings. They even tried to get international support for a UN tribunal to prosecute Syrian officials and terrorists harbored in Syria (which the U.S. disappointingly did not support).
Terrorism in Iraq fell 75 percent during the ensuing diplomatic crisis, proving two things: Syria and Iran are the primary instigators of the violence in Iraq and their behavior can be influenced through exposure and confrontation.
The implication of Biden’s statement is that Iran can sleep at night knowing the U.S. doesn’t recognize the depth of its role, and therefore won’t do anything. The Iranians continue this destructive activity simply because it works and it’s worth it to them. They’d be crazy to stop with this lax and non-responsive U.S. attitude.
And Joe Biden’s remark will only further persuade Iran that meddling in Iraq is a risk-free investment.
Biden is just a symptom of what has happened to the political elites in America & other Western countries. Appeasement of Islam is not working, indeed, it’s a spectacular failure. But, the spineless creeps who run the West, politicians, media, & academia, just can’t face reality, they can’t admit the failure of their ideas.
So, they lie to cover it up.
They are the kind of people that are so stupid and unthinking that if you said to them “Hey Joe could you sniff my butt and see if I just farted!” they would proceed to do just that…what a bunch of idiots they are…wouldn’t want to offend anyone no matter how ridiculous or dangerous the request!
Does he look like he’s joking?
Almost the entire war with Iraq has been a proxy war with Iran. I guess he’s hoping no one noticed.
Joe Biden is a moron, the court jester for the god president and the democrat elite.
what a bafoon! he and bam-bam and all their ilk are an embarrassment to our country and our education system.
This pathetic homo sapiens is an embarrassment to the intelligent of the specie, much less the U.S. Congress.
For those of you in Rio Linda, he’s dumb as a box of rocks, and is extremely over paid.
Does anybody listen to Biden. The man has a history of talking about things he knows nothing about. It is to our shame that he is given a pulpit to spout his garbage.
So all of those weapons with Iranian markings that our troops have been finding in Iraq were what, picked up at a rummage sale?
Biden “IS” an idiot. He makes Dan Quayle look like a bloody genius.
He also said that the Iraq surge was a failure, so….
What is wrong with this guy? I can’t believe Obama hasn’t duct taped his mouth yet. He’s a regular gaff a minute! The fact that he is next in line to the presidency absolutly sickens me.
We’ve only ourselves to blame. Who but ourselves voted for these jerks?. We’ve allowed the “majority” of ourselves to be snookered en masse by slick-tongues and Janus-faced opportunists of no depth and experience of the largest issues. Metropolitan (i.e. not cosmopolitan) City-Ward politics is a shallow school for world responsibilities.
Democracy is a messy process, fortunately we’ve the opportunity coming this November to turn the national inertia in another “right”-ward direction. Since we’ve wrinkled our noses over the pungent scent of socialism; let’s have the cojones to examine Europe’s surrender to Islamic/Muslim stealth with a cold eye. We’ve only to look around the world for examples of what not to do. But it ain’t going to be a quick turnaround.
My hope is that our America can be liberated from its tweeting-texting-truncated-language-brain-shortened attention spans to be able to accomplish this needed turnaround. I wish us luck, literally.
If Biden were a Republican, the (rotting) MSM would be all over him. But, alas, he’s a Dummycrat and the MSM just keeps mum. One has to question, however, the electorate of Deleware for continuing to elect him to the Senate.
Can’t we get a smart VP ant least as smart and Larry the Cable Guy. Delaware should just blow itself up for giving the nation Biden. What kind of moron would pick Biden??
remember when OBOTS were telling you to run scared from REPS b/c what if HORRORS! Sarah might become the prez>???
Is Biden any smarter? a pretty smile and good looks – not one thought under the pretty coif-
a man so throughly educated in glad-handing without an IOTA of sense or smarts————–
I am sad to see USA represented by this (useful to someone but not to me) idiot
During this period of decline in the American Empire, the most electable politicians have to be the best entertainers, promisers, and liars. There is too much corruption unaddressed in the political system that seems to better quick fix with paint. (POR) Biden is not nearly the stone faced, deeply sincere liar that the O is, so he makes up for it with the flashy teeth and little gaffs. Clinton was still the best at telling the crowd stunning whooper, with a margin of humor thrown in. Bush winced and choked too much.
In God We Trust, not the self-centered power brokers. Hopefully, Dante was right and those -crats will spend eternity in a cess pool reserved for liars, panderers, and seducers.
This is no surprise. Liberal Presidents and Vice Presidents often listen to the Media more than their own CIA and DOD.
Joe Biden was the “grown-up” on the ticket. Put there to make the slackers, lefties and indie-scum-dents feel safer voting for their “dream-date”. The one they all knew way too fickle and vain and just to PERFECT to ever be THEIR steady at the Prom they so desperately wanted to just BE at.
Biden, to them, was the political equivilent of a limo ride home for when “The One” dumps them at the punch bowl. White guy, silver hair, blue suit safe… he’ll get them home before curfew, but he’s just cool enough to let them drink beer along the way.
He is a walking, talking, living stereotype of everything that people SHOULD HATE about politicians. He combines the cheesy, creepy shallowness of an Edwards, and the False Patina of Kennedyesque maturity.
He is a complete moron, an intellectual midget who been utterly and demonstratably WRONG on most topics which he has ever spoken on or about.
But for his “standard” looks, and his “get out of jail free” card issued by the MSM due to his perpetually Left Leaning stances, he is entirely un-electable outside his small crony machine politik state.
How such people can ascend to the national political scene without imploding is beyond me.
Seriously, does anyone NOT know this guy is a complete jerk?
Vice President Joe Biden is in the wrong profession; he should be a stand-up comedian instead of a corrupt, Democrat senator for 30-something years. Heck, he could even cite someone else’s joke as his own & have the people believe he wrote it himself. Many professional comedians don’t even write their own jokes. However, instead of choosing the correct path as the comedian, Biden is the fool anyway. Except the people are laughing at him instead of with him. Idiot.
He actually believes what he says. We would do better with a name selected at random from the phone book.
Biden is a F%^king idiot. Let’s vote these knuckleheads out.
My name is Larry. I met Joe Biden once- actually twice in the same day. Once he spoke to my graduate seminar of six students for 90 minutes non-stop. He even took some questions. He let us know enthusiastically that the US should recognize Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel.
Several hours later, he spoke to a large student assembly and reversed his position on Jerusalem. I take Joe’s words on Iraq on faith, as I am sure most do.
BTW, I like the sound of ‘Promise Day.’ As a Jewish guy and an Israel citizen, can I take part in Promise Day, or would it be more like ‘Guillotine Day’? Wondering…
It`s true folks. A box of rocks are smarter than VP Dummy…
Ummm….Iran and Iraq were mortal enemies for quite a while, to the point that Hussein would have formed another alliance with the US right up until we invaded Iraq because it was supposedly an “imminent threat.” Al-Qaeda was always strongly connected to Iran (check the date of that article and then scroll down to “Iranian links”) and not at all to Iraq outside of the US-protected Kurdish “No-fly Zones.”
Has it begun at all yet to sink into you guys how really, really awful Bush and his crew were? And that if you had voted for Bush in 2004, you really should admit to not having anything resembling a clue when it comes to politics, including who’s a liar and who isn’t.
Talk about not having a clue.
‘Has it begun at all yet to sink into you guys how really, really awful Bush and his crew were?’
Nope. Doubt you’d find too many here who didn’t feel Bush could have done more, but they also realize that being a wartime president means compromises.
The ‘Bush lied us into war with Iraq’ jackassery played well in the fever swamps, but the marching morons never really mattered. It never gained any traction with thinking people. They can and do read and understand plain English. Just as importantly, they are not such shallow thinkers that they cannot understand context. So, Bush was reelected.
You, well, you seem incapable of critical thinking, and so are led by the nose. Think you’d learn.
Those Americans with “long term memory” may remember that during Biden’s campaign for presidency …he was well received by IRI lobbyists in LA and a handsome amount was donated to his campaign. Likewise with Hillary Clinton. Biden’s relationship with IRI goes a long way…so there is no surprise here for him to minimize Iran’s influence in Iraq….just wait…this administration is going to hand Iraq over to mullahs on a silver platter …if Maleki can move recent deadlock his way! When it comes to Middle Eastern and foreign policy Americans are just about clueless as they can be. Just look at US foreign policy fiasco over the past 32 plus years. It was the Saudi interference that somewhat prevented Maleki from winning the elections.
Just think Joe Biden is just a heart beat away from being our president. All this shows is how unintelligent our present president was and is. The really sad thing is this is no joke, our country is at stake!!
“He Must Be Joking”
What do you mean by adding ing?
Biden is just biden his time until he gets promoted to chief presidential lavatory attendant.
What a joke.
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kind of reminds me of the gerald ford comment during debate with jimmah carter. who, thanks to BO is now the SECOND worst president of the US. Poland is not under the control of the soviet union. many americans, and most poles disagreed with that idiotic statement. of course jerry ford was a rino idiot!
And if Obama is somehow relieved of his duties as POTUS we’ll have a President Biden and if some disaster should befall them both, President Pelosi. What a sterling command structure, a foundation built on solid rock sitting in a bed of quicksand.
Maybe Pelosi will be removed from that line of succession in November, 2010 but that leaves two more years of Obama/Biden. No wonder these dupes continue to receive such ardent support from their cheerleaders in the media who likely have fingers and toes crossed that this pair doesn’t do to their fellow travelers what they predicted would be the long sought fate of the Right, the demise of the Republican Party after their messiah was elected; that is if the Republicans don’t screw things up by attempting to reach across the aisle and curry favor with a press whose sole purpose is fiercely dedicated to burying them in a sewer of derogatory lies and smears.
Huh??
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