Senators to Bush: Stay out of Iran

CNN.COM ^ | January 11, 2007 | CNN.COM

[Greystoke]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's warnings to Iran and Syria to not interfere in Iraq and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by U.S. troops raised eyebrows Thursday on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

"I believe the...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

Senator Biden is a bozo.  Those 6 Iranians were in Iraq when they were arrested. 

[Dallas59]

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, said Rice's responses had echoes of the debate over the Vietnam War, when the Nixon administration denied U.S. troops were conducting raids into neighboring Cambodia to stop the flow of weapons to South Vietnam's communist insurgency. Hagel, a veteran of that war, called Bush's plan "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam." (Full story) "When our government lied to the American people and said we didn't cross the border going into Cambodia, in fact we did. I happen to know something about that, as do some on this committee," he said. "Madame Secretary, when you set in motion the kind of policy that the president is talking about here, it's very, very dangerous."

So who's Senators are stopping Iranian "troops" from crossing the Iraqi borders?

[MinorityRepublican]

Senators, I dare you to cut the war funding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Until then, STFU!

[onyx]

Facts don't matter to Biden.

[nopardons]

They NEVER have done, why should they matter to him now?

[BigSkyFreeper]

"When our government lied to the American people and said we didn't cross the border going into Cambodia, in fact we did. I happen to know something about that, as do some on this committee," he said.

Surely Hagel wasn't referring to John EFFEN Skerry's (who's on the committee) Christmas trip to Cambodia?

[Lurker]

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

Sure he does.

Biden's a moron.

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[BigSkyFreeper]

Exactly, facts don't matter to eggheads like Biden. In fact, I heard those Iranians were in Baghdad when they were arrested. Hardly a border town.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I just hope he wasn't wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat when he said that.

[wodinoneeye]

Same 'magic line' that cost us so many casualties and ineffectiveness in so many post-WW2 wars........

[dighton]

FWIW, Senator is from senex, ancient drooling bugger.

[Red Steel]

Red Steel to Senators - shut up.

[onyx]

I can hardly wait to see him get creamed in his run for his party's nomination.....LOL.

[pandoraou812]

Biden's a moron.......... I just love that word, moron. It fits so many of the people who are against this war.

[Kakaze]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the House Armed Services Committee that U.S. troops are trying to crack down on the spread of Iranian-supplied explosives into Iraq, and the administration is "making it clear that those who are involved in activities that cost the lives of American soldiers are going to be subject to actions on the part of the United States inside Iraq."

The response from the senators should be Applause followed by the question......" Do you have the funds an equipment you need Mr Secretary?"

Instead these wanna be minipresidents can't get out of their own way. They are so laden with their own self importance they not only don't see the big picture .....they simply don't care about it.

This country could go to hell in a handcart and all they would car about is that they are still in power.

[SeaBiscuit]

"Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"

I notice CNN really likes to lay on all the 'titles' when referring to rats like Biden, but when they're talking about the President it's just "Bush".. disrespectful bast@@ds. Biden ought to shut his stupid trap.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'd like to see him concede his presidential bid by going into a blubbering heap of flesh like Gephardt did when he ran.

[onyx]

That all teeth evil grin and his arrogance. Wow, such a nasty little twerp.

[BigSkyFreeper]

That all teeth evil grin and his arrogance.

Offputting.  I agree.  His arrogance reminds me of a father scolding his kid for wrapping the family truckster around the 200-year old oak tree a block from the family home on a Friday night.