http://www.charlescitypress.com/articles/2007/09/04/news/news03.txt“We must end the war so we can come home and tend to the business of our nation, and bring home a generation from a war based on a faulty premise,” he said.
According to the 34-year veteran of the U.S. Senate, ending the war in Iraq would be his second priority as president. The first would be to restore America’s credibility throughout the world.
Biden said America is facing a foreign policy crisis, and that there is a need to improve the nation’s image because it affects the American people’s way of life.
“America has never been more isolated as America is today in the world,” he said.
To regain lost credibility, Biden proposes a plan that he says would end the war, but leave the region with some stability. He said he could accomplish that by dropping any attempt to unite the factions in Iraq.
By ending America’s engagement in Iraq, Biden said that will allow lawmakers to address domestic problems.
“We have to restore our flexibility here at home,” Biden
remarked.
“I now refer to (Pres. Bush) as ‘Houdini’ because he’s done something I didn’t think was possible. He’s taken a $5.8 trillion surplus, a $232 billion operating surplus and turned it into a $250 billion a year deficit — that’s a half a trillion dollar a year turnaround,” Biden said.
While candidates agree that a need for change looms in the future for our government, Biden contends that a much larger change possibly is waiting.
“I’m running for one reason. I’ve been there for seven presidents, I’m not naive, but I believe with every fiber in my being that we have a better shot now to make hope and history rhyme than we have in the last 75 years,” Biden said. “We have a gigantic opportunity to literally change the direction of the world and get it back on track.”
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