Capt. Beau Biden, a Judge Advocate General in the Delaware National Guard and the state's attorney general, is part of the 261st Signal Brigade that has been told to prepare for duty in Iraq in 2008. They have not been given a date of deployment.
"I don't want him going," Joe Biden said during his campaigning Wednesday, according to a report on Radio Iowa. "But I tell you what, I don't want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years, and so how we leave makes a big difference."
Biden criticized Democratic rivals such as Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama who have voted against Iraq funding bills to try to pressure President George W. Bush to end the war.
"There's no political point worth my son's life," Biden said, according to Radio Iowa. "There's no political point worth anybody's life out there. None."
The far left liberal blogs (I tend to separate them from the moderate left) are going on the attack again, this time against Joe Biden for his comments on Meet The Press.
Although he has different ideas on how to obtain a successful outcome in Iraq, he is not willing to play political football with our troops or their funds.
I might not agree with many of Biden's ideas but I have to give credit where it is due.He knows the political risk he is taking to stand on principle here, yet he is doing it anyway. He knows he will be viscously attacked by the far left, and yet he is clear on not putting his son or other soldiers in more danger to "score" a political point or two with the far left fringe of his base.
O
n another front, Joe Biden "nails it", when he indicated he would NOT cut funding for the troops on the ground as a tactical means to put more pressure on the Bush administration to "end the War". During the Meet the Press interview, Joe Biden made a compelling, extremely articulate and impressive plea to his colleagues to NOT use funding cuts as a political football at the expense of American military lives.
Notice that those that have had family deployed to Iraq understand that our troops are not political pawns to be used to force defeat down Americas throat.
Two other presidential candidates, Republicans John McCain and Duncan Hunter, have sons who have been in military units deployed to Iraq.
.