Biden Attacks Romney For Being Ready To Go To War With Syria, Iran - Mediaite

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Vice President Joe Biden's is attacking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for what he considers his cavalier suggestion that the U.S. should be prepared to send U.S. forces into more battlegrounds in the Middle East in the near future. According to NBC News, Biden attacked Romney for being "ready to go to war" with Syria and Iran. These comments suggest to some that the administration of President Barack Obama will not back the Israeli government if they determine to strike at Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities.

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Biden was asked to respond to the attacks on the Obama administration that Romney levied during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech last week. The Vice President replied that he was concerned Romney seemed to view going to war as being a casual decision.

Listen to what he says about foreign policy. You caught some of it in his speech [at the Republican National Convention]. He said it was a mistake to end the war in Iraq and bring all of our warriors home. He said it was a mistake to set an end date for our warriors in Afghanistan and bring them home. He implies by the speech that he's ready to go to war in Syria and Iran. He wants to move from cooperation to confrontation with Putin's Russia.

Romney has been critical of the Obama administration's stewardship of the alliance between the United States and Israel.

A report on Biden's comment in the Jerusalem Post links his statement to a recent comment by Gen. Martin Dempsey who told reporters that the U.S. did not "want to be complicit" in an attack on Iran by Israelis. The Jerusalem Post notes that Biden's comments make it increasingly clear to skeptics that Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv are not "in sync on the Iranian nuclear program."

Read the whole article in the Jerusalem Post

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• Biden is a goof sometimes but he is right with this. 

• That's because Conservatives love war. They love the prospect of going to war, they love the money to be made by corporations by going to war. They love war because they consider it the ultimate expression of their patriotism. They love war because there are guns involved and conservatives love guns. They just love war. So basically, Romney was playing to the red meat crowd and that's fine. Now that the general election is on, he'll have to balance the "I love war" crowd with the "I hate war" crowd and the "war as a last resort" crowd.

• the entire GOP presidential candidates seemed a little caviler to send people into harms way, interestingly, Ron Paul, the only one with a military background was against such rash courses

• Biden is the intellect of the Democrat party.

• Romney didn't serve, nor was his father nor his 5 sons, nothing wrong with that its their choice. But that wretch would want to send people to war without hesitation, but couldn't find time in his wretched speech to acknowledge them. What a shame, who want's to have that one as a commander in chief, what a joke!

• but there are reports that Obama has secretly assured Tehran that the U.S. will not support Israel if they attack Iranian nuclear facilities … http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159563#utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=fanpage

• Shut up,Joey.Romney will send all his 5 sons to fight the war

• "Romney has been critical of the Obama administration's stewardship of the alliance between the United States and Israel".
  Noah, like a good journalist, check out an interview made by Wolff Blitzer of CNN with the Isreali Minister of defence, E. Barak, a couple of weeks ago. He was asked to rate the most trusted American president in history for the Isreali.
  This was in relation to their security and existence.
  We are waiting for the response he made from Noah.

• Another day, another Rothman lie.

  Biden attacked Romney because Romney wants to go to war with Syria and Iran.

  Fortunately, the Romney/Rothman neo-con alliance will never get the chance to start wars they don't have the balls to fight personally. 

• Romney has been on his knees, blowing AIPAC.

• There are also reports that you beat your wife

• Looks like Biden is sounding off the dog whistle for all the anti-semites and muslims that want Israel eradicated from the planet. 

  Yeah, the DNC has your back, Iran!

•  "Kind of a grin with a body behind it."

• Oh? Not wanting to go to war with Iraq means  hate Israel,and hate jews? Right wing logic is sure effed up

• Will Romney be in France during the war?

• Here is part of that interview for Noah's homework!!!!!

  http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/30/israeli-defense-minister-ehud-barak-bulgaria-attack-on-israelis-will-be-avenged/?iref=allsearch BLITZER:  You've studied U.S.-Israeli relations over many years.How would you describe the relationship today?BARAK:  I think that from – from my point of view, of defense minister, they are extremely good, extremely deep and profound.  I can see long years administrations on both sides of the political aisle deeply supporting the state of Israel.  I believe that that reflects a profound feeling among the American people.But I should tell you, honestly, that this administration, under President Obama, is doing, in regard to our security, more than anything that I can remember in the past.BLITZER:  More than any other president?LBJ?BARAK:  Yes.BLITZER:  Or…BARAK:  Yes.BLITZER:  – Bill Clinton…BARAK:  Yes.BLITZER:  – or George W. Bush?BARAK:  Yes.BLITZER:  (INAUDIBLE).BARAK:  In terms of the support for our security, the cooperation of our intelligence, the sharing of thoughts in a very open way, even when they are differences, which are not (INAUDIBLE) sometimes, I've found their support for our defense very stable.(CROSSTALK)BLITZER:  – the most supported ever, in your opinion?BARAK:  Yes, for the – the kind of two generations, I can bring to – to memory, from Carter on.  I cannot say exactly about LBJ, because I didn't watch it from close these times.  But from Carter on, the – the defense relationship between Israel and the United States are extremely stable and – and good.It doesn't mean that we agree on anything.  It is very well known that we have differences between our government and the American administration about – (INAUDIBLE) about other issues that I believe in in regard to world terror and in regard to Hezbollah, in regard to all – what happens in Syria, in regard to Iran.  We basically – basically agree on the diagnosis.We – we don't agree on the prognosis on – on some of these.###Ehud Barak sings praises of Obama administration 

• "Right wing logic" Sorry, I spit up coffee all over my keyboard when I read that phrase…LOL

• With no military draft, it's easy for right-wing pigs to rattle their swords.

• No one is the intellect of the republican party.

• Nice

  A nutbag american publication, picks up on a nutbag foreign publication..

  This is gonna make Breitbart famous.

•  Noah is married?

• Romney had a pretty good kill rate during the Vietnam war.  He killed his bishop's wife and almost killed the other driver because of his reckless driving in France.

• Don't confuse him with the facts.  

• …as Barry cleans up the mess in Afghanistan ( http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/01/23/rate-of-deaths-in-afghanistan-skyrockets-under-obama/ )

•  He sure will, he has a history of going there because it is the most dangerous place to be if your an American during war time.

•  You mean the plastic ones with an olive on the end of it in a martini glass don't you?
   
  OR are they rattling the swords that real American soldiers brought home from Iraqi palaces that republicans were too afraid to go earn themselves?

   OR are they the old Confederate swords they stroke lovingly after they expel the media from their RICH OLD WHITE GUYS ONLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS FUND RAISERS they hold?

   OR are they swords that KING GROVER uses to knight them in the anti-America order of DROWN AMERICA IN A BATHTUB conservatives?

• Joe Biden charges the Secret Service to guard him.

• Biden may be goofy but he is no fool and he knows his sh*t,he's been around.

  I may be proven wrong but with this habit he has developed of outright lying on stage,something tells me Paul Ryan is in for an ass whooping at the debate.We'll see,I guess.

• Don't forget that Romney is the guy who after doing everything he could to keep his ass out of the war zone commented on how he wanted to go to Vietnam. A guy who equated his kids working on his campaign to soldiers doing actual fighting and dying.  Like you I have no problem with people who take a stand against war, but don't turn around when your life, or your childrens lives, are no longer on the line and become a war hawk.  There are people like this in both parties, but the republicans make it an art form.

• On the campaign trail.

• Just because the right wants to see the mushroom cloud over the Middle East ushering in the second coming doesn't mean we all have the same death wish.