Biden: Bush Gave Al Qaeda "A Powerful Recruiting Tool"

New York Times:

Visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency's 19th director, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the Bush administration's intelligence policies "gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool."

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Comments

[Pulemerci]

Biden never know when to keep his mouth shut. Did Al Queda have trouble recruiting people for 9/11? That terrorist massacre of over 3000 Americans surely took planning long before Bush was president. Or the USS Cole and the embassy bombings in Africa during the Clinton administration. Granted, Clinton did not have a proactive policy re terrorism. and I guess that appeased them. Bush went after them and destroyed theur safe havens which I guess made them madder at us.

[SparkyDash]

Biden is totally correct on this one. Glad he had the huevos to say it.

Obama set a strong tone for our nation's mayors too.

Out with BS, roll up sleeves, let's move forward.

Obama and Biden...I love these guys.

[LibRS]

ole joe. serving up the kool aid as usual. and all you libs just drink it down.

[86masters]

Learn to write in complete sentences.

[davism97]

Whoa now wait a minute. That's a HUGE statement to make about someone, and if Biden truly believes it isn't he obligated to initiate an investigation to prove it? If I was responsible for aiding Al Queda wouldn't I be tried as a traitor and probably executed? What's so special about Bush that he doesn't have to face up to what he did?

[PippiLongstocking]

Biden is s.e.x.y...

[SparkyDash]

;-)

[mikep]

Biden is a liar and a hypocrite, and a man who has spent his entire life as a stooge for corporate America. What a jerk. Biden, like Hillary and all of the other Democratic warmongers, voted for Bush's wars and the rest of the Bush agenda. There's no possible way that Bush could have done what he did without the strong support of the Democrats in Congress. They were with him every inch of the way, and have all made large fortunes off of these illegal wars. To claim after the past eight years, that there is any significant difference between the two parties is beyond ludicrous. The Democrats and others who try to blame the Republicans are losers who avoid responsibility for their actions by blaming others. But it's not going to work. The world knows the truth, and it knows that it wasn't Bush who attacked Iran and Afghanistan. It was the Republicans AND the Democrats working closely together in service of the military-indiustrial complex. This is undeniable, and anyone who would argue with this is just a troll for the Democratic corporate warmongering agenda.

The hypocrisy here is just beyond belief. Biden's votes in support of Bush's agenda are a matter of public record. If you have any doubt just look in the Congressional Record. The proof that Biden is a war criminal is there for all to see, and it is repulsive in the extreme that he would lie so openly and so blatantly.

[UtahLady]

Biden's right. Now we have to clean up the mess Bush and his policies called. Sad.

[hjfraser2002]

Yeah, and it is going to take a long time, because we have created generations of new terrorists.

[rayanthony]

Two guys who nothing of what they are talking about, and one of them is going to lead the CIA

[hjfraser2002]

You know nothing about what you are talking about. You have been sold a bad bag of goods and you think it is the best thing in the world. Wake up and join the thinking crowd.

[ImWithThatOne]

Biden is absolutely correct. Bush's policies just made the terrorists hate us more.

[rayanthony]

This guy is an a**

[hjfraser2002]

How so. He is telling the truth. All we have done is created more terrorists. More generations that have a negative view of us. This is the real world view, not the one that has been painted for the last 8 years.

[SparkyDash]

yes, Biden is an ace.

[ZellaBee]

Well didn't the US pay for their training with the help of the CIA. Wasn't Bin Laden a paid CIA operative years ago?

[hjfraser2002]

You hit the nail on the head.

[PoliticalAmazon]

Yes, and it worked SO WELL for our country that President Obama has decided to use the same tool in Afghanistan.

[hjfraser2002]

And we have a winner. First thru gate.

[Eyeswideopen1]

He is 100% correct. This is an absolute truth agreed upon by EVERYONE in the world except right wing nuts so basically all Republicans.

[hjfraser2002]

Boy, that is the truth. Lets see the tr0lls attack this.

[Gib]

A pretty obvious truth, but how refreshing to hear it said by someone in a position of power.