Liar, liar, pants on fire.
So Mr. Biden, when were you actively misleading America? Then, or now?
History lessons
The Washington Times
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
December 14, 2005
From Sept. 3, 1998, congressional testimony of Scott Ritter, former UNSCOM inspector, before the Senate:
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Sen. Joseph Biden: And you [Mr. Ritter] and I both know and all of us here really know, and it's a thing we have to face, that the only way, the only way we're going to get rid of Saddam Hussein is we're going to end up having to start it alone -- start it alone -- and it's going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot in the desert taking this [expletive] -- the -- taking Saddam down. [Laughter.] You know it and I know it. So I think we should not kid ourselves here. They're stark, stark choices. I happen to agree with your assessment:
A.) that diplomacy was picked over inspection-driven confrontation;
B.) that there's an illusion of arms control that cannot guarantee he will have no system of -- no weapons of mass destruction; and
C.) that as long as he's there, he's concluded he can absorb air strikes.
So I think you've done a significant service for this country; a different policy judgment has been made. If we don't like the policy judgment -- in my view, from observation that's been made by the administration, and the Security Council and our allies -- if we don't like it, we should step up to the ball and say it, because you forced us and I think properly so, to a day of reckoning here about what our policy should be.
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