Have you read Senator Biden's detailed plan for ending the Iraq war?

[Steve_in_California]

If not, take a few minutes and give yourself something to think about. Planforiraq.com

[madrchsod]

1. it`s a good plan

but the devil is in the details

[Steve_in_California]

2. These people have endorsed Senator Biden's plan for Iraq.

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

[Captain Hilts]

6. An impressive list. Add my Nom de Net: Mookie Wilson to it! Go, Joe! nt

[FrenchieCat]

8. Could we get a link that lists those endorsements?

Thanks.

There's a few names on that list that make me cringe!

EDITORIAL PAGES AND COLUMNISTS IN SUPPORT OF BIDEN-GELB:
Tony Blankley, Washington Times
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist
David Brooks, New York Times
Bill O’Reilly, Fox News

[liberal renegade]

3. maybe more would read it if it were a live link....

http://www.planforiraq.com

[demommom]

4. I have read it a couple of times.

[tocqueville]

5. it's too late

to implement such a plan you need a peaceful or at least a situation under control and a non-corrupted administration. This is whisful thinking.

pull out before you get kicked out. That's what happened to the Brits in Basra. They got kicked out, they didn't retreat. And the Brits had a better experience in dealing with civilians than the US have. Now the Brits are pinned on an airstrip waiting to go home...

[saltpoint]

7. If I praise Joe Biden for doing the heavy lifting on international matters

as he often does on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I also am inclined to ask the vacuous incumbent why his 6 1/2 year administration has presided over the most violent landscape in the Middle East of recent memory.

Bush, leaving no one any good solutions in Iraq, must answer to his historians, and my guess is they are not going to cut him much slack.

Biden takes the long view without skimming over the present detail, and it multiplies the wrinkles on his face even as it persuades more and more people that he's the sort of grown-up who might make one hell of an excellent president.

[murbley40]

9. kick

:kick: