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. |