The Daily Background

Everybody’s familiar with the ‘emboldening the enemy’ rhetoric which usually comes from the White House and its allies regarding dissent towards its Iraq plan. Apparently Biden has decided that the ‘emboldening’ rhetoric is a two-way street:

STEPHANOPOULOS: The administration is stepping up the rhetoric on your resolution. You saw the president, the vice-president, General Petraeus, all saying it would hurt morale and Pentagon Secretary Robert Gates added, “It will embolden the enemy.” Are you worried that may be true?

SEN. BIDEN: No. Not at all. It’s not the American and the United States Congress who are emboldening the enemy. It’s the failed policy of this president, going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely, going to war without enough troops, going to war without enough equipment and, lastly, now sending 17,500 people in the middle of a city of six and a half million people with bulls-eyes on their back, with no plan. There is no plan. He has tactics, George, but no plan.

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