Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., spoke this morning against President Bush's claim that those who want to negotiate with terrorists are taking the false comfort of appeasement. Foreign Relations Committee head on Iran, Obama and vice presidency."This is raw, raw politics, demeaning to the presidency of the United States of America," Biden said in an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
Biden explained his belief that the comments made to the Israeli parliament were targeted at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. "I mean, literally, imagine what our friends, even our foes in the capitals from Paris to Tokyo thought, seeing the president of the United States in the Knesset, attacking another senator."
Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, backed Obama's plan to engage in unconditional talks with the Iranians. "You either talk, you go to war, or you maintain the status quo," he explained. "What's the alternative to talking with a country that's building a nuclear weapon, attempting to, that, in fact, is helping kill Americans by supporting elements in Iraq that are killing Americans?"