Big Joe Biden "called Milosovic a war criminal to his face"!!

[bushisanidiot]

fuckin' A, baby! that's a man right there!!

[Coexist]

1. Hell yeah!

[dflprincess]

2. Now, if he's only do the same to Bush & Cheney

(and if anyone will do it, I'll bet it'll be Biden)

[Phredicles]

4. Aww, ya beat me to it.

[AnnieBW]

3. He takes no shit

I posted this in the Maryland forum. This was in the Murdoch Street Journal yesterday. It's by my State Senator, Jim Rosapepe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=157x5140

In most of our meetings, Romanian leaders reiterated their strong interest in joining NATO. At lunch in my house with opposition party leaders, one of them said that NATO membership was important to their country for a reason I'd never heard before.

"If we're in NATO, we won't have to worry about NATO attacking Romania over our relations with our Hungarian minority the way you attacked Yugoslavia," he said. "Since Turkey has been in NATO for decades, you let them do what they want with the Kurdish minority."

Mr. Biden, visibly angry, rose from his chair, leaned across the table and said: "If that's why you want to get into NATO, I'll make sure you never do!"

Cooler heads assured Mr. Biden -- and me -- that the gentleman had misspoken and that Romanians were committed to good relations with their Hungarian minority. And they were right. When the opposition party came to power a year later, the Hungarian party supported the new government. In 2004, Romania joined NATO -- with Mr. Biden's support.