Posted on 12/13/2005 10:46:42 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
On Special Report with Brit Hume on Fox News, 13 December, 2005, Senator Joe Biden (D, Delaware) said the following in reply to President Bush’s third policy speech on Iraq in Philadelphia yesterday:
“Failure to get a consensus constitution spells doom for our policy in Iraq. So what is the plan, Mr. President? That is still lacking.”
After saying that means participation by the UN, NATO, and Iraq’s neighbors, Biden added:
“If this time next year nothing has changed concerning in terms of our success rate, we will be out of Iraq. The American people will not sustain this.”
The transcript of this is not up yet, but these quotes are TiVo’ed and accurate.
The full answer to these historically foolish statements by Senator Biden were given by President Bush in the first ten minutes of his speech in Philadelphia, on Monday. Bush began by recounting the history of America writing its own Constitution. He took time to note that our first attempt to draft an acceptable constitution was an abject failure. Under the Articles of Confederation, our government failed financially, and there were armed rebellions in the streets.
As the President carefully pointed out, it took us “eight years to write our Constitution.” The Battle of Yorktown effectively ended the American Revolution in 1781. It was not until 1789 that our Constitution was both written and ratified, to replace the Articles of Confederation, which had failed.
So the first historical nonsense stated by Senator Biden was that the American people will not “sustain” more than a one-year wait to obtain workable constitution.
But the worse error in Senator Biden’s remarks, as compared to America’s own constitutional history, was his claim that to be successful, Iraq had to write a “consensus constitution,” acceptable to its neighbors. Is the Senator totally ignorant of recent history? Money, fighters and weapons are leaking into Iraq across its borders with Iran and Syria. Just today, Americans captured a tanker truck that came in from Iran which concealed thousands of forged ballots for the current Iraq election.
What kind of constitution would Iraq have, if its neighbors who want it to fail, had any kind of approval rights over it? None.
The same answer comes from American history. What kind of Constitution would we have written and ratified if it had to be by “consensus” with our neighbors? Our neighbors were then Britain, which still controlled Canada, and France, which still controlled the Louisiana Territory. We, too, would have never achieved our Constitution, under conditions like those that Senator Biden said are essential.
But Americans in reading or watching the news would be totally unaware of the American history which demonstrates that Senator Biden’s remarks are foolish, from the MSM coverage of Bush’s speech. Only 6 of the 128 hits from “Articles of Confederation” on Google News are news stories. Most of the rest are the full text of the Bush speech. Most Americans don’t read the whole text of speeches, nor watch them live in full on TV.
The simple fact is that the MSM, because they are lazy, foolish or biased, buried the lede. The important comparison between American and Iraqi constitution writing, including initial and major failures, was edited out of almost all news stories about that speech. So, the comparison which demonstrated in advance that Senator Biden’s remarks are downright foolish, wasn’t presented.
Contrary to the way that history is (mis)taught in American schools today, history did not begin yesterday. The history of America’s constitution writing is directly relevant to the current history of Iraq’s similar efforts today. And these facts were presented by the President, but largely ignored by the MSM.
John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
Obviously Senator Chia pet's hair plugs were place so deep that they disrupted the connection between his two brain cells.
"Biden is the only real threat to Boxer for the dimmest bulb title."
I will call with Cynthia McKinney and Sheila Jackson-Lee, and raise you 2 with Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters.
I think you should fold :-)
Senate vrs House...but that's a whole lot of dumb.
"MSM buries Biden spineless, stamina-less, stupidities"
is more like it.
So many names, so little time.
Eventually, evolution will catch up with these flounders and labels like left/right will become obsolete as they will be readily identified.
If memory serves, I think the Spanish controlled the Louisana territory at the time, but your point is well taken -- Biden is indeed an idiot.
And then many are foolish enough to try to make a comparison between the founding of this nation of states to Iraq's third 'founding' this century when in fact it is impossible.
yea...and other disparaging antidotes detailing Bidens uselessness. :)
John Murtha actually said that the 29% of Iraqis that think their country is going in the wrong direction was way too high, and was a recipe for disaster, suggesting that if that many americans had thought that during our revolution that we never would have been a country, or something like that.
I can't find the quote now, I heard him on the radio while I was driving.
And I don't mean to be racist, but why is it that all the really dumb house members are black?
I think it is because gerrymandering guarantees these seats to black people, and the appeal to that constituency doesn't seem to favor reasoned thinking. But I can't figure out why that would be the case.
I actually think that there are a lot of house members, and several other senators, who are as dumb as these people, they just know to keep their mouths shut.
Were they wrong to do that? Or, are you wrong to ignore George Santayana's caution, "Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it"?
If you want more recent history that even you could not decry as irrelevant, look at the "nation-building" which General MacArthur in Japan and General Eisenhower in Germany, after WW II. Germany is especially relevant, in light of the assassinations and sabotage that the werewolves carried out for years after being created by the Nazis to do exactly that, after the end of the war in Europe.
Congressman Billybob
Still can't find it. BTW, I hear that the story about the forged ballots was false.
An excellent post. I'm emailing it around the country right now.
John Murtha actually said that the 29% of Iraqis that think their country is going in the wrong direction was way too high, and was a recipe for disaster, suggesting that if that many americans had thought that during our revolution that we never would have been a country, or something like that.
How does that fat doughboy Murtha know that many Americans DID NOT think that during the revolution and its aftermath?? Things were incredibly rough during those times. The fat slob might try picking up a book on some history of the American revolution. 1776 by David McCollough would be a good start.
And far more Americans than 29% now think things are headed in the wrong direction, though god knows why. Our economy is as sound as it's ever been, we have more money in our pockets and more comforts in our home than ever before. But whiney, spoiled Americans just want everything perfect or it's not good enough. Wahhhh, get over it. You've never had it so good.
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