Sen. Joe Biden: 'Tell the American people the truth'

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sharply chastised Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz Tuesday over the administration's decision not to reveal in the budget how much money it will cost to maintain the U.S. military presence in Iraqi next year.
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During Tuesday's hearing Biden asked Wolfowitz "When're you guys starting to be honest with us?" He later amended the word "honest" to "candor."
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CNN: You were looking for a dollar figure yesterday. Paul Wolfowitz says the numbers really aren't going to change -- roughly 150,000 troops, roughly $4 billion a month. So, you add it up, do the math and therein lies the answer.

BIDEN: You got it. But why don't they say that? Why won't they say that? Why do they put a big zero -- a zero -- as to how much money is going to appear in the president's budget next year?
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Biden was right in the first place to use the word "honest", but such is the courtesy of the Senate, at least still among the Dems.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/cnna.irq.biden/index.html

he voted for the bogus invasion, he trusted Bush, so he should shut his mouth.

my fiance asked if he was a republican while we watched the invasion resolution debate on the senate floor.

on edit:
I found that appropriate and funny. :)

Plagiarizing candidates' statements worries me a bit.
Otherwise, any good statement is welcome, even from someone such as Biden.- (DLC losing more ground?)

He is asking a legitimate question. Why isn't this administration being straight forward with us??? Why???
Finnally, Joe Biden is doing something right, unlike that other Joe, Lieberman!!! At the same time I would ask him (Biden) to be honest with us and tell us why he voted for the war.

I don't subscribe to the notion that if I disagree with one or more positions any representative has taken then I must dismiss out of hand everything he says and does for eternity.

At any rate, I'm glad to see that the cabal is being questioned with some regularity by several sources, including Biden.