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| Senator Biden: no deadline on Iraq |
| 2007-04-30 |
| Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden (D, Del.) said Sunday he doesn't agree with fellow Democrats who want an iron-clad Iraq war funding deadline. Biden, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he does not support language that calls for no spending for the U.S. military deployment in Iraq beyond March 31, 2008, because it may prevent Iraq from saving itself. Biden says he wants to see Iraq develop a decentralized government that can secure its borders and allow U.S. troops to be re-deployed. "It may get so bad that we do not have that option, and (the only) option we have available to us is to withdraw and try to contain the civil war inside Iraq," Biden said. "We are not there yet, and until we reach that point, I am not prepared to say there are no circumstances under which, after a date certain, we would not have a single troop inside of Iraq." It seems he actually paid attention to the briefings. "We've got to get the world community in on owning part of this by calling an international conference to put pressure on the regional powers," he said. But he still has stupid moments like this. Still, an improvement over his fellow Democrats. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Considering that it's as much a proxy war armed and financed by Saudi Arabia and Iran as it is a civil war? The honourable senator isn't the sharpest knife in the block -- I wonder if he hasn't quite gotten as far as scissors, actually -- but at least he's trying to recognize and respond to external reality. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-30 22:35 |
| #7 withdraw and try to contain the civil war inside Iraq ??? Aren't these two actions mutually exclusive? ??? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-30 16:01 |
| #6 The Dems have gotta be worrying about the possibility of the tide really turning. At some point, they have to be prepared to say, "Well, the Democratic pressure for accountability, and the removal of Rumsfeld, and other changes inspired by the Democrats, have finally overcome Bush's sad, mismanaged, ill-conceived war, and our brave fighting lads and lasses just might have a chance to triumph over our enemies. Just as I predicted." |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-04-30 12:28 |
| #5 Maybe he plagiarized the wrong crib sheet. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-04-30 09:43 |
| #4 [span class=moonbat] So the neocons got to you, eh, Mr. Biden? How much did Rove pay you to say that? [/span] |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-04-30 09:38 |
| #3 "It seems he actually paid attention to the briefings." More likely Slow Joe is paying attention to polling data. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-30 08:36 |
| #2 Do the Democrats blame Bush? Do you need to ask? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-04-30 08:23 |
| #1 Article: "It may get so bad that we do not have that option, and (the only) option we have available to us is to withdraw and try to contain the civil war inside Iraq," Biden said. I think all the lefties (and some conservatives) are expecting al Qaeda to win in Iraq after an American withdrawal. As far as I'm concerned, though, al Qaeda and the Baathists have lost. The only thing still left in the air is who delivers the coup de grace - Uncle Sam or Iraq's Shiites. If Uncle Sam leaves, the big question is what happens if the Shiite majority wins by killing hundreds of thousands of Sunnis (given that they are probably much less squeamish than Uncle Sam). Do the Democrats blame Bush? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-04-30 07:55 |