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Biden: McCain has no answer to threat of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah

By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz U.S. Correspondent

Tags: Barack Obama, Israel news

The Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday took aim at the current Republican administration and its proposed next president, Senator John McCain, over its policies regarding Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Speaking in Ohio, Senator Biden said that during the tenure of President George W. Bush, which McCain would continue, Iran, and its allies Hamas and Hezbollah, have grown stronger.

Democratic presidential candidate "Barack Obama has been clear: no country poses a greater security challenge to the United States, Israel and our allies than Iran," he said.

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"Under the policies George Bush has pursued and John McCain would continue, Iran, not freedom, has been on the march. Iran is much closer to the [nuclear] bomb; its influence in Iraq is expanding; its terrorist proxy Hezbollah is ascendant in Lebanon; its ally, Hamas controls Gaza and launches rockets at Israel. Beyond bluster, what would John McCain actually do about these dangers? He doesn't say."

Biden cited Obama's long-held opposition to the war in Iraq, which he branded "one of the most disastrous decisions in the history of American foreign policy."

Unlike under a McCain administration, the Delaware senator said, Obama as president would "take out high-level terrorist targets like [Osama] bin Laden if we have them in our sights," regardless of whether they were in Pakistan or not.

"We will not tolerate a terrorist sanctuary in Pakistan," Biden added, saying that McCain had ruled out such a move as "bombing our ally."

Biden warned that the next major attack on the United States "will almost certainly come from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border - where the Bush/McCain approach let down our guard and let our enemies off the hook."

"John is more than wrong - he is dangerously wrong," Biden concluded

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1.	The obama answer	20:32	\|	Arie	24/09/08

2.	Democracy in foreign countries	20:36	\|	Fritz T.	24/09/08

3.	"He doesn`t say...."	21:19	\|	Swiss (Dino)	24/09/08

4.	Biden`s answer to the problem?	21:20	\|	Sam C	24/09/08

5.	stronger	21:23	\|	Shmuelshachor	24/09/08

6.	United States, Israel and our allies	21:31	\|	Sam	24/09/08

7.	There are some problems that have no solution	21:45	\|	Clickfool	24/09/08

8.	Biden, just another joke on the Hill	21:54	\|	Lynn	24/09/08

9.	Hey Fritz T., then I am an alien which is guilty	21:59	\|	Mark B.	24/09/08

10.	Iran Getting Stronger	22:12	\|	Carlos	24/09/08

11.	Senator, what is the threat to the US?	22:24	\|	Dovy	24/09/08

12.	Biden fooled?	22:27	\|	Michael Greenberg	24/09/08

13.	FRIDAY NIGHT	22:40	\|	Mark of Lewiston	24/09/08

14.	Biden	22:50	\|	ad	24/09/08

15.	goodness the democrats have two empty suits	22:51	\|	victor hardman	24/09/08

16.	Biden said Israel & US must live with a nuclear Iran!	22:59	\|	Ayton Eller	24/09/08

17.	If Iran is attacked	00:02	\|	AST	25/09/08

18.	the would be president Hussain can give speeches but nothing else	00:37	\|	zionist forever	25/09/08

19.	I WILL be voting Obama into the next US presidency!!!	00:40	\|	Akiva P	25/09/08

20.	Today, at an intersection...	00:43	\|	Akiva P	25/09/08

21.	Chutzpah - Both Biden and Obama Voted Agaist Kyl-Lieberman	00:47	\|	Tod Zuckerman	25/09/08

22.	Inconsequential	00:50	\|	Fahmi Natour	25/09/08

23.	Akiva P.	01:12	\|	Connie	25/09/08

24.	The rise of Iran`s fundamentalism	01:47	\|	Sue Stockton	25/09/08

25.	Biden on McCain and Iran	02:03	\|	Carol	25/09/08

26.	Playing politics	03:09	\|	Joseph	25/09/08

27.	#1 - Arie	06:30	\|	MichaelF	25/09/08

28.	#25 - Carol	06:33	\|	MichaelF	25/09/08

29.	THE LAST GALLOP POLL	08:05	\|	indrajaya	25/09/08

30.	Look and see	08:18	\|	Eric Wilson	25/09/08

31.	But Bush did bomb Pakistan.	09:02	\|	Maureen Ann	25/09/08

32.	Obama`s answer?	15:37	\|	Jackie Staeheli	25/09/08

33.	Biden talks nonsense	21:41	\|	Brod	25/09/08

34.	Both parties are wrong and poor	07:18	\|	1984	26/09/08

35.	MCCAIN:PALIN	04:17	\|	DEBBY	30/09/08

36.	Barack Obama`s Presidency	13:37	\|	Leeza Cohen Coleman	07/10/08

37.	The Facts, Just the Facts	14:00	\|	Leeza Cohen Coleman	07/10/08

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