Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), D-Del., said he believes the American people are frustrated by the Bush administration's failure to articulate a clear strategy for winning in Iraq. Benchmarks and timetables for a withdrawal are needed to gauge progress and limit U.S. casualties, he said.
"If I had known the president was going to be this incompetent in his administration, I would not have given him the authority" to go to war, said Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
While this administration certainly has executed this war in an even more incompetent fashion than my wildest nightmares could have conjured, it's also the case that the "incomptence dodge" really doesn't fly. This was a horribly diastrous idea, from premise, to sale, to invasion, to occupation, to civil war. No person who fails to understand this should get anywhere near the oval office. In any case, Biden won't get anywhere near it.
As I've written before, "incompetence" should've been the reason, before the war, that the "liberal hawks" should've all been able to use to understand that this was a really goddamn awful idea, but by now we should all understand that it certainly wasn't the only reason.