With Syria Military Strike On Table, Biden Visits Iowa Democrats' Anti-War Crowd

[Purveyor]

By THOMAS BEAUMONT | ASSOCIATED PRESS | 4 hours, 42 minutes ago in Politics

Vice President Joe Biden is heading into the belly of Democrats' anti-war opposition, venturing into a politically influential heartland state for the first time since President Barack Obama publicly endorsed a possible military strike on Syria.

Biden is scheduled to headline a fundraiser in Iowa Sunday for Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, an annual steak picnic for the senator who is popular with anti-war Democrats.

Even if Biden sidesteps talk of Syria, the issue will be as much a part of the backdrop as the bales of hay and smoke from the grilling steaks, and in a place where he will have to plant his flag should he seek the presidency in 2016.

"That's going to be a little sensitive," said eastern Iowa Democrat Richard Machacek, an Obama delegate in 2008, referring to possible military action against Syria. "It flies in the face of what the president campaigned on here."

President Barack Obama rode an anti-war wave to victory in Iowa's 2008 presidential caucuses. He had proposed limited air strikes in Syria in response to a chemical weapons attack last month against more than 1,400 people in a Damascus suburb. The administration says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government was behind the attack.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. Each problem must be examined separately, different people involved and many times

Different countries involved. Obama had given Syria's Assad a lot of room, Obama is not responsible for the civil war in Syria but for humanitarian reasons was not happy for sure about Assad's gassing of his own citizens. This is a horrible thing, and so in 1925 treaty against the use of CW's was created. Assad must have realized he stepped over the line and had a strong feeling some one was going to come after him. Russia must have felt the same way and because of the strong desire for a pipeline across Syria knew the pipeline was not going to happen or it would be in danger of being damaged. Many reasons could be behind the need to diplomatically resolve this issue. We have to give time for these talks to work, stand behind the president and his cabinet, don't go running wildly in the streets.

[MrsKirkley]

2. I think the US needs to stay out of it.

The American people are tired of war and election day is coming up fast. I'm afraid any military strikes on Syria will ruin chances for Democrats to hang on to the majority in the Senate and regain control of the House.