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Senator Joe Biden joined Keith Olbermann on Tuesday's Countdown to talk about his foreign policy speech today, in which he knocks away John McCain's ever-changing rationales for staying in Iraq and his embrace of the failed Iraq policies of George Bush. Biden notes the ongoing Democratic primary battle between Obama and Clinton, but makes it very clear that Democrats are more than willing to engage him on in a debate about Iraq and national security.

Biden, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, tells Keith that regardless of how Senator McCain meant his 100 years in Iraq statement, the American people are against it and it sends the wrong message to the people of the Middle East. Americans don't want permanent bases in Iraq and as Biden puts it, it feeds into the theory that we're only there to control their oil: