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Edited on Sun Jun-04-06 05:43 PM by kiahzero
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/10/rumsfeld.congress/index.htmlMonday morning, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, described Rumsfeld as "irrelevant" to the problems facing the United States in Iraq, in light of the scandal now shaking the Defense Department.
"I don't care if Rumsfeld goes or stays," Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told CNN.
"I think he's irrelevant, quite frankly. He's been wrong so many times, as the vice president has been."Then from 2005: http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050814-18420400-bc-us-biden.xmlWASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., again called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to be fired Sunday, saying he "should get his notice Monday morning."
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Biden reiterated his call for Rumsfeld's resignation, originally made last December.
He referred to a New York Times article that claimed U.S. troops are still without adequate armor, and said if the architects of the Iraq war were corporate CEOs, they would have lost their jobs by now.
"We can't fire the president and the vice president for their incompetence to the extent that it exists, but you can, in fact, do that with the Secretary of Defense," Biden said. "I don't understand the president's willingness to continue to follow the advice of a man who has not been right on a single major piece of advice he has given ... since the statue of Saddam (fell) on that fateful day over two-and-a-half years ago."In 2006: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=70418"Mr. Rumsfeld must step down," added Eaton, whose stance was echoed on CNN by U.S. Senator Joe Biden, the Delaware Democrat who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Imagine what would happen if it were announced tomorrow in the headlines of the papers of America and throughout the world that Rumsfeld was fired," explained Biden. "It would energize, energize the rest of the world, to be willing to help us. It would energize American forces, it would energize the political environment. Yes, he should step down. I agree with every single statement made by the former general training Iraqi forces in Iraq."
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