WP: Biden Criticizes Bush Policy on Iraq but Opposes a Pullout Deadline

Biden Criticizes Bush Policy on Iraq but Opposes a Pullout Deadline
By Chris Cillizza
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Page A04


Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. added his voice to the growing chorus of Democratic critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, but he rejected calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops.

The Delaware senator's luncheon remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York came on the heels of an address by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) last week in which he advocated an immediate drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Biden and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), both of whom are mentioned as potential candidates for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, praised Murtha yesterday even as they disagreed with the specifics of his proposal. Biden said he shared the "frustration" voiced by Murtha and others but was "not there yet" on Murtha's policy prescriptions. Clinton predicted that a hasty withdrawal would "cause more problems for us in America."

Biden, who is perhaps the Democratic Party's most visible spokesman on foreign policy matters, said that President Bush "has to abandon his grandiose goals" for transforming Iraq and the Middle East and define a more realistic mission.

Rather than attempting to transform Iraq into a "model democracy," Biden suggested that Bush spend the next six months accomplishing three goals: creating a "political settlement" that draws support from the rival Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds who make up Iraq; bolstering the ability of the Iraqi government to "deliver basic services"; and accelerating the training of Iraqi troops in order to facilitate a handover of full military authority to them....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101408.html

another tool

peace

Its a little late now. What we or should I say our government has lost the faith of the Iraqi people. I say would you trust us now if you were Iraqi?

The DLC New Democrat Stay and Die corporatist shills are desperately trying to reframe their Stay and Die policies in recognition that the people of the Republic HATE THE WAR AND WANT US OUT.

We need a second American Revolution to rid us of the corporate tyranny that has destroyed our republic.

"Potential candidate for the party's 2008 presidential nomination" my ASS.

2008 can't be about "Anybody But Bush"...it needs to be about someone with the ability to put this country back together again.

"Biden suggested that Bush spend the next six months accomplishing three goals"...wonderful, Joe. Let's focus on those goals and CONTINUE to do NOTHING for our own country. Let's watch the next GM step up and bleed more American jobs to China, Mexico and India. Let's focus on those three goals at the EXPENSE OF EVERYTHING ELSE.



:grr:

Bleh... more like plays stupid.

all know where they stand in '08.

He's an energy suck. I wish he'd switch allegiance.

which is one of the Party's biggest disadvantages in 2006.

How this guy stayed on in Delaware after the plagiarism scandal, i'll never know. I geuss people just don't have much use for integrity in their senators there.

for Dem president.