Biden: Distrusted and Dismissed by Iraqis

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 Biden: Distrusted and Dismissed by Iraqis

It’s funny how Iraqis seem to be reacting to Obama’s pick of Senator Joe ‘Hair-Plug’ Biden for the VP slot: the unanimous tone, as voiced by Iraqi politicians and analysts on Iraqi TV stations and on Al-Hurra-Iraq, is that Biden is not so knowledgeable on Iraq, or foreign policy in general.

Wasn’t Biden’s ‘intellectual’ heft supposed to be the whole point of adding him to the Obama ticket to balance out the greenhorn factor?

Iraq’s political class doesn’t seem to be buying it, though. They are not reassured by the Biden pick, whose name is forever associated, in Iraqi eyes, with a hastily-thought plan to divide Iraq that he publicly announced at Dr. Bernard Lewis’ 90th birthday celebration in Philadelphia on May 1, 2006.

The American public doesn’t seem to be buying it either, for the polls are demonstrating that there’s been no Biden bump to speak of whatsoever. Wait, isn’t Delaware a subsidiary of the DuPont Pharmaceutical Empire? Don't tell me that it's that stretch of 95 that overcharges on tolls?

For my part, this is what I thought of the Biden plan at the time: What About the Druze?

Shouldn't some reporter be asking Biden if he still stands behind his own plan?

[memphis]

Nobody in Iraq has heard of Joe Biden. Many people in America still haven't. Iraqis simply want America out.

[J. J.]

Nobody in Iraq has heard of Joe Biden. Many people in America still haven't. Iraqis simply want America out.

Actually, Biden favored "soft partition" plan for Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12572371/

I can understand why Iraqi commentators don't like him.

[memphis]

Nobody in Iraq has heard of Joe Biden. Many people in America still haven't. Iraqis simply want America out.

Actually, Biden favored "soft partition" plan for Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12572371/

I can understand why Iraqi commentators don't like him.

Still doesn't mean many over there have heard of him.

[J. J.]

Nobody in Iraq has heard of Joe Biden. Many people in America still haven't. Iraqis simply want America out.

Actually, Biden favored "soft partition" plan for Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12572371/

I can understand why Iraqi commentators don't like him.

Still doesn't mean many over there have heard of him.

No, not the average Joe, or Josef, on the street, but the chattering class there.

[JSojourner]

Nobody in Iraq has heard of Joe Biden. Many people in America still haven't. Iraqis simply want America out.

Actually, Biden favored "soft partition" plan for Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12572371/

I can understand why Iraqi commentators don't like him.

He's also talking about the Iraqi's actually spending some of their own money to solve their own problems, rather than milking us dry.  They probably aren't too keen on that.

I'm not sure what other world leaders think of him.  All I know is, if a single world leader says anything good about Obama OR Biden, most Republicans will say it just proves that Democrats are appeasers and won't put America first.  But if some world leader says something negative, most Republicans will say it just proves these guys lack the intellectual heft to manage foreign relations.