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Just imagine what Biden would do to Rudy in a debate! It would 9/11 all over again for poor Rudy!
His timing couldn't be better: just as the Dems and GOP are at loggerheads over whether to fund the Iraq war and whether timetables must be part of the bill--along comes Joe Biden with a solution. He just introduced an amendment that calls for the adoption of his long-tenured proposal to separate the warring factions into three semi-autonomous regions under a decentralized federal system. There is simply no other viable option on the table. As journalist Jeff Greenfield noted, Iraqis are already adopting this plan on a de facto basis.
The Biden amendment has won wide endorsement and you can expect the Senate sinking deeper in to this quagmire to grab this life preserver of an amendment.
FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE IN SUPPORT OF THE BIDEN-GELB PLAN: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State James Baker Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS IN SUPPORT OF THE BIDEN-GELB PLAN: Former Iraq Defense Minister Ali Allawi Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Ambassador Dennis Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ambassador Richard Haass, President Council on Foreign Relations Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Yahia Said, Director, Iraq Revenue Watch Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, CATO Institute Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations Anne Marie Slaughter, Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University Eric Leaver, Institute for Policy Studies Research Fellow Juan Cole, Middle East scholar and prominent blogger David Phillips, Council on Foreign Relations, author of Losing Iraq
PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN SUPPORT OF THE BIDEN-GELB PLAN: Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico (D) Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) Former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, National Security Advisor of Iraq Congressman Chris Van Hollen Iowa House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Iowa House Assistant Majority Leader John Whitaker Iowa State Rep. Doris Kelley Rep. Lisa Heddens of Ames (assistant majority leader, Iowa house) Rep. Mike Reasoner of Creston (assistant majority leader, Iowa house) Rep. Dick Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jack Carter, the son of former President Jimmy Carter, and Democratic candidate, Nevada New Hampshire officials: State Representative-Elect Jim Webber (D-Kensington) Former State Representative Scott Green Sanbornton Town Democratic Chair Andy Sanborn State Rep. Bill Hatch (D-Gorham) Rep. Stephen Shurtleff (D-Penacook) Eileen Foley, who served for 16 years as Mayor of Portsmouth Bob Preston of Hampton, a former Democratic Leader of the New Hampshire State Senate Joseph Russell, former Secretary of the Stratham Democrats Representative Michael Marsh (D-Greenland) New Hampshire State Representative and Police Sergeant Mark Preston Manchester Fire Commissioner and New Hampshire State Representative Robert Haley Detective Steve Arnold, former President of the New Hampshire Police Association
Former Clinton White House Public Affairs Director Bob Weiner
EDITORIAL PAGES AND COLUMNISTS IN SUPPORT OF BIDEN-GELB: Tony Blankley, Washington Times Michael Hirsh, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Editorial Board Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist David Brooks, New York Times Philadelphia Inquirer, Editorial Board David Broder, Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist Bill O'Reilly, Fox News George Packer, The New Yorker Portland Press Herald (ME) editorial board Delaware News Journal editorial board The Barre Montpelier Times Argus (VT) editorial board St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board The Journal Standard (IL) editorial board Marilou Johanek, Toledo Blade (OH) columnist
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