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On the subject of Iran this morning, Biden said that when Obama took office in 2009, America was the problem:
That’s struck a few people on twitter the wrong way. Jim Geraghty from National Review wrote:
Could Biden give a timeline on when the ayatollahs & mullahs stopped being "the problem", and when, or if, he thinks they resumed that role?
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 8, 2012
Stephen Hayes from the Weekly Standard had a few things to say:
When Biden thinks "we were the problem," Iran was literally shipping tons of weapons to kill US soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 8, 2012
When Biden thinks "we were the problem," Iran built secret nuclear facility that Pres Obama would declare "inconsistent" w/peaceful program.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 8, 2012
When Biden thinks "we were the problem," Iran was listed by State Department as the foremost state sponsor of terror in the world. Still is.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 8, 2012
Guy Benson from Town Hall reminds us of Biden’s foreign policy chops in 2008, when he suggested we just send a ‘no strings attached’ check for 200 million to Iran. It was quickly shot down by his advisers.
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UPDATE: Go read Jim Geraghty’s piece on just how wrong Joe Biden is in his statement above.