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Biden Flubs the Bush Doctrine

10:47 AM, Sep 25, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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From the "If Sarah Palin had said it" files: Fox News's Aaron Burns reports that during a speech in which Biden accused McCain of being "dangerously wrong" on foreign policy, the Delaware senator's gaffes "included saying that President Bush sent a US envoy to Iran, and that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said we were losing the war in Iraq (he actually said we were losing in Afghanistan)."

Criticizing McCain for opposing negotiations with Iran, Biden said even the Bush administration now favors such talks - which Obama has long supported.

"After seven years, in which our senior diplomatic personnel were not allowed to make a single contact with Iranians, the Bush administration realized the absurdity of its own policy and sent our leading diplomat to Iran," he said. "The Assistant Secretary of State as he went to Tehran, sat down at the instruction of the President of the United States."

It sounds great for Obama and Biden that the president came around to something so close to their position on talks with Iran; trouble is, the event Biden described never actually happened.

Of course, Biden meant to say Pyongyang rather than Tehran. He must not know the Bush Doctrine 6.0 dictates that we fecklessly negotiate with one rogue regime at a time--not to be confused with the "naive" Obama Doctrine of meeting with all of our worst enemies without precondition in the span of a year.

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