was major... Bidened claim the US and France kicked out Hezbollah from Lebanon and then let Hezbollah back in... What a lie... Syria was kicked out, not Hezbollah, and by Lebanon and NOT the US OR France... Hezbollah is the ONLY militia that did NOT disarm or were disarmed by Syria... Hezbollah's sponsor is Iran... Either Biden's after 30+ years in the Senate is unqualified to be a Foreign Affairs expert in the Senate and to be VP, or Biden mis-spoke... That no-one noticed speaks volumes about the knowledge of the American Press...
That the MSM and the talking heads were either too ignorant about Lebanon, did not care, or in the tank for Obama the scandal is that Biden was not called on it by the moderator or Palin and that the Press did not pick up on it... http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/35261 >>> What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have >>> kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even >>> remotely like that ever happened in this one. Nobody – nobody – has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody. Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about. It’s too bad debate moderator Gwen Ifill didn’t catch him and ask a follow up question: When did the United States and France kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon? The answer? Never. And did Biden and Senator Barack Obama really say NATO troops should be sent into Lebanon? When did they say that? Why would they say that? They certainly didn’t say it because NATO needed to prevent Hezbollah from returning–since Hezbollah never went anywhere. I tried to chalk this one up as just the latest of Biden’s colorful gaffes. Did he mean to say “we kicked Syria out of Lebanon?” But that wouldn’t make any more sense. First of all, the Lebanese kicked Syria out of Lebanon. Not the United States, and not France. But he clearly meant to say Hezbollah, not Syria, because he correctly notes just a few sentences later that Hezbollah is part of Lebanon’s government. He wasn’t talking about Syria. He was talking about Hezbollah all the way through, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of his outlandish assertion. Like many who watched the debate, I was bracing myself for Palin to say something off-putting about foreign policy. She’s the one who needed the crash course, allegedly; Biden is supposedly Mr. Foreign Policy. He’s supposed to be the experienced elder statesman Senator Barack Obama chose to help him govern and fill in some of his knowledge and experience gaps. He’s supposed to know far more about foreign policy than she does. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
