Joe Biden: Just making shit up as he goes along

Seems Joe never doubted that the Iraqi troop surge would be successful. even when he said it wouldn't work, he knew that it would work militarily. Joe knew that only a political solution could bring security; despite the fact that the whole point of the surge was to stabilize the security situation enough to allow the political process to take hold.



Allahpundit charts the evolution of the Biden Doctrine:

If you’re keeping score at home, the supposed foreign-policy genius whom we call our VP has the following track record on Iraq: Voted against the Gulf War; voted in favor of the 2003 invasion; opposed the surge; called for the country to be partitioned and earned himself a healthy degree of infamy among Iraqis in the process; and has now taken to lying about his prior naysaying and insisting that the administration deserves more credit than it does. Point for point, it’s the precise opposite of conventional wisdom about how things have played out. To steal a line from Glenn Reynolds, they told me that if I voted for McCain we’d have a vice president who didn’t know anything about foreign affairs — and they were right!