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To: LindyBill who wrote (95980)	1/20/2005 6:55:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793936

Hugh Hewitt - The Los Angeles Times trumpets a new poll that purports to show that support for the war in Iraq has hit a new low. Funny how this is timed for the day before the Inauguration, and how such an unpopular war's leader was resoundingly re-elected two months ago, while his party added strength across both chambers of the Congress. Who exactly is the Times trying to kid? Slow Joe Biden, on his meeting with Muammar Qaddafi, from today's hearing on the nomination of Dr. Rice to be Secretary of State: "I asked him [Qaddafi] why he made the deal. Straight up. State Department was in there. He said, 'It was simple.' He said, 'I knew if I had used nuclear weapons,' he said, first of all he said 'Nuclear weapons didn't help you much,' through a translator, 'nuclear weapons didn't help you much in Vietnam and in Iraq.' That was his comment. Secondly he said 'I know if I use them,' I forget exactly the phrase, 'you'd blow me away.' And thirdly, he said 'They weren't of much value to me.' And then he went on to say, 'And, now I can have American oil companies in here pumping the oil out of the ground.' I asked why, [garbled] he wanted American oil companies. And he made an analogy to the French. He said 'You make a deal with the French and they say 90/10, they take 95.' He said 'The Americans, you say 50/50, they only take 50.' He's the most candid guy I ever spoke with." In September, 2003, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi relayed that Qaddafi had capitulated on his WMD programs out of fear of American military might, telling Berlusconi "I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid." So, the most candid guy Joe Biden has ever spoken with is a murderous thug who told a completely different story to a different representative of the West, and a terrorist-supporting killer of Americans who refused to own up to his complicity for decades. What do Biden's colleagues think about being called less candid than Qaddafi? They and most people will excuse this as just another Joe Biden gaffe, and it is. But it is also a great reminder why just because someone got the votes of a few hundred thousand Delaware people is no reason to conclude that they ought to be allowed to represent America abroad. What an embarrassment. When Joe left the tent, do you suppose Qaddafi turned to his aide and asked: "He's the most important Democrat on foreign affairs in the United States Senate? Remind me again why I am afraid of the Americans?"