Biden Concluded Haditha Marines Were Guilty Before Their Trials
Here’s an article from 2006 quoting Joe Biden as demanding that the repercussions for the “Haditha massacre” resonate all the way up to the Secretary of Defense.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should step down amid an investigation into whether U.S. troops covered up the suspected intentional killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Sen. Joseph Biden said Sunday.
The Delaware senator is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a potential presidential candidate in 2008. . . .
Biden told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the accountability for Haditha and other alleged atrocities in Iraq should go all the way up to Rumsfeld.
“We can’t get rid of the president; he’s there for two-and-a-half more years,” Biden said. “There is a system of accountability. … When you make serious mistakes, you step forward and you acknowledge them and you walk away.
What about accountability for Senators who accuse our Marines of crimes they didn’t commit? Who are willing to jump to the conclusion that our country did wrong before all the facts are in?
Is this the sort of foreign policy experience Obama wants us to believe fills in the gaps of his own lack of experience?
