Preach it Joe! Biden: Romney wants war with Syria, Iran

[cali]

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press – 27 minutes ago

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republican rival Mitt Romney is "ready to go to war in Syria and Iran" while hurting the middle class.

The warning came during a campaign stop in York, Pa., designed to promote President Barack Obama's economic policies among white, working-class voters. The thrust of Biden's pitch has been that America is digging out from the 2008 economic collapse and that Romney would take the country backward. But Biden, a foreign policy heavyweight, also cautioned voters that Romney would adopt a foreign policy that favors confrontation over cooperation.

"He said it was a mistake to end the war in Iraq and bring all of our warriors home," Biden said of Romney. "He said it was a mistake to set an end date for our warriors in Afghanistan and bring them home. He implies by the speech that he's ready to go to war in Syria and Iran. "

Romney has forcefully criticized Obama on foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. He has faulted Obama for allowing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad to remain in power and has pledged to defend U.S. ally Israel, even if that means strikes on Iran's suspected nuclear facilities.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. +1

Pound it out, Joe.

[hedgehog]

2. Go Joe!

[snappyturtle]

3. Mitt's war mongering is what we should have been talking about immediately

after the convention instead of Clint/chair.

GO JOE!

[siligut]

4. PNAC already has this all planned out.

Mitt will get his shale oil, destroy the middle class and his Mormon legacy thing and the PNAC will march on.

Here are the search results for when we had this discussion when Dubya was pResident.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/searchresults.html?q=PNAC+syria+iran&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&sa=Search%21&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en

[reformist2]

5. I'm glad he's bringing this to the front burner!

[reflection]

6. Repeat this often, Joe!

The public is not ready for another ridiculous war. Say is loud and often until it sinks in. The independents will flock to Obama in droves.

[RZM]

7. Mitt talks tough, but I doubt his resolve to be a war president

I don't think his military posture would be appreciably different from Obama's. I think Mitt wants to go down in history as the economic genius who brought his business acumen to Washington and turned things around.

[gulliver]

8. This is probably why Romney left out talk of war in his RNC speech

All of the Republicans at the convention want more war. Romney knew there was no way to get an applause line out of the loonies at the convention without shocking the rest of the voting populace. They don't want to talk about what they've done. They don't want to talk about what they want to do.