Biden: McCain’s Iraq, Terrorism Stance ‘Dangerously Wrong’

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Source: New York Times

The Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking two days before the first presidential debate, accused Senator John McCain of pursuing “dangerously wrong” policies on Iraq, Iran and terrorism.

As Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, went into relative seclusion to prepare for Friday’s debate on foreign policy matters in Mississippi, his running mate opened his harshest attack yet on Mr. McCain in a speech he delivered in Cincinnati this morning.

He said Mr. McCain would continue what he called the Bush administration’s wrong-headed approach to the conflicts in the Middle East, endangering American security.

In an emphatic way, Mr. Biden said, “Time and again, on the most critical national security issues of our time, John McCain’s judgment was wrong. Right after the terrorists attacked us on 9/11, John responded by urging that we consider attacking countries other than Afghanistan, including Iraq, Iran and Syria. In the run-up to the war in Iraq, John insisted that we would be greeted as liberators, that we didn’t need a lot of troops, that victory was imminent.”

“John is more than wrong — he is dangerously wrong,” Mr. Biden continued. “On a question so basic, so fundamental, so critical to our nation’s security, we can’t afford a commander-in-chief so divorced from reality and from America’s most basic national interests.”



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1. Obama in seclusion? He's about to speak! NYT Caucus Blog drives me nuts. nt