Gaffemaster Joe Biden On Larry King: 9/11 Mass Casualty Attack "Unlikely," Backpack Bombers Coming, Iraq Is Obama's (Not Bush's) Accomplishment

The gaffemaster also known as Vice President Joe Biden is appearing on Larry King Alive in just a few moments tonight and will make claims that a high-casualty al-Queda attack similar to 9/11 is "unlikely" and that Iraq is one of Obama's accomplishments.

The Swamp (via FreeRepublic) has a transcript (excerpts below).

BIDEN: Well, look, let me put it this way. The idea of there being a massive attack in the United States like 9/11 is unlikely, in my view. But if you see what's happening, particularly with al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula, they have decided to move in the direction of much more small bore but devastatingly frightening attacks.

KING: Detroit?

BIDEN: Detroit. But I think what you're seeing morphing here -- and it's a concern to us -- is you'll see the -- the concern relates to somebody like a shoe bomber or the underpants bomber, the Christmas attack or someone just strapping a backpack on them with weapons that are indigenous and blowing up, you know, walking into
(INAUDIBLE)...

KING: So that's going to happen?

BIDEN: Well, I -- I think there are going to be an attempts. I hope we've been -- I've been really impressed. As I said, I've been here for eight presidents. I used to be
in the Intelligence Committee. I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. It's something I spent my professional life doing. I've been really impressed with the success we've had, building on the last administration, in dealing with these.

On Iraq:

BIDEN: ....I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. I spent -- I've been there 17 times now. I go about every two months -- three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.

KING: Iran, nuclear. Worry?

BIDEN: A concern. A -- a -- a real concern, not an immediate concern in the sense that something could happen tomorrow or in the very near term, but what I worry most about with regard to Iran, if they continue on the path of nuclear weapons and were able to gain even a modicum of the capability, then I worry what that does -- Larry, you know the Middle East, what that -- what pressure that puts on Saudi Arabia, on Egypt, on Turkey, etc. To acquire nuclear weapons. That's...

KING: (INAUDIBLE).

BIDEN: That's very destabilizing.

Flashback: Both Biden and Obama opposed the Bush "surge" that has brought victory in Iraq. Now they want to claim credit for it?

Oh, by the way, "Plugs," if the underwear bomber had been successful on Christmas Day, that would have been a massive attack. But, I'm sure you'd have treated it like your boss is doing now, as if it were a petty theft.

Biden also says Sarah Palin appeals to people who are "frustrated" but claims it's not a significant portion of the population.