Biden Previews Democrats' Tack Against Troop Plan

Wall Street Journal ^ | 27 December 2006 | YOCHI J. DREAZEN

[shrinkermd]

The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said no new U.S. troops should be sent to Iraq, setting up a potential political battle over President Bush's tentative plan to deploy tens of thousands of additional forces to try to stabilize the country.

Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden also said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would testify before his panel early next year. The hearing would give the new Democratic majority in Congress its first opportunity to question senior Bush administration officials about their handling of Iraq. The remarks were the clearest indication to date that Democrats are planning a full-blown push to prevent the administration from sending more troops to Iraq and to ensure that the White House pays a political price if it were to do so.

Mr. Biden, who announced yesterday he will seek his party's 2008 presidential nomination, made the comments as hopes for a bipartisan solution to the Iraq crisis fade. Lawmakers from both parties had hoped the Iraq Study Group headed by former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican, and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton might offer a blueprint for a way forward in Iraq that members of both parties could embrace.

[shrinkermd]

Senator Biden will commit treason to suck up to the antiwar types on DU, Moveon and Huffington post.

[traditional1]

"made the comments as hopes for a bipartisan solution"

Same ol'/same ol'...

"Bipartisan" means caving in to Liberal cut-and-run, or ANY Liberal agenda item. If a Republican doesn't cave in, it's not "bipartisan".

Whenver you hear "bipartisan", think Liberal's get their way on an agenda item......

/captain obvious

[do the dhue]

Biden is a National Security threat. We are going to let politicians come in here and run the war? That's why we didn't do that well in Nam.

If our Generals want more Troops, then give them more. IF our Generals want less Troops then give them less.

IF our Generals wish to throw the stinkin' media out of Iraq so they can finish the job, then let them do that too.

[blitzgig]

I'm sure that Rice will handle Biden adroitly, just as she did at her confirmation hearings.

[Inwoodian]

I'll be President before this schmuck.