List the Policy Differences between Bush and McCain

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Joe Biden
"President Bush and Sen. McCain lump all the threats together,"
said Biden. "Al Qaeda, the Shia militia, listen to them speak. Listen to
my friend Joe Lieberman, and he really is a friend, listen to them speak. Find
me a distinction that they make. As a consequence of this profound confusion
they make profound mistakes. The idea that al Qaeda will cooperate with the
philistine, a guy who in fact used to run the country in Iraq, the guy who did away with the caliphate...
is completely contrary to anything that the now-dead leader of Iraq had in
mind. It's dangerous. How can we run a sound foreign policy without
understanding these decisions? How can we talk about a Shiite-dominated nation
cooperating with a Sunni dominated Wahabi sect of Islam as if they had anything
in common? Yet listen to my friends, listen to the president, listen to Joe
Lieberman, listen to John McCain. Ladies and gentlemen, if they can't define
the enemy we are fighting it is very difficult to define whether we have won or
lost."
It was a vintage Biden performance, with theatrical and abrupt changes in
tone tempered by equally dramatic pauses. Defying the conventional wisdom that
foreign policy critiques must come in digestible sound bites, he walked the
crowd (already well-versed in Middle East
affairs) through what he presented as the major fallacies in the McCain
doctrine. Much time was spent on Iran.
"I find it fascinating, the twisted logic of my friends on the other
side talking about how this allows Iran
to fight a proxy war against us in Iraq," Biden roared.
"Huh? Guess what. What more would Iran
like than the continuation of a 140,000 to 160,000 Americans in Iraq, bogged down in Iraq, no end in sight. Tell me how
much Ahmadinejad would like to inherit a fractured Iraq. Study history. The premises
upon which they rationalize I find breathtaking. The idea that John [McCain]
and Joe [Lieberman] are going to eliminate any vestige of Iranian influence in Iraq, bless me
father for I have sinned. Are they unaware of a border that has existed there
for millennium? Are they unaware of the fact that our guy, Maliki is inviting
Ahmadinejad to Baghdad
and kissing him on both cheeks, literally not figuratively. Are they unaware of
the fact that this government in Iraq
feels compelled to visit Tehran
to explain what it is that they are attempting to do with a long-term security
agreement?"

Quotes by Sam Stein, HuffPost