Biden Warned Rice of "Constitutional Confrontation" If Administration Went into Iran Without Congressional Authorization. In a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Biden said to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, "[I] want to make it clear as chairman of the committee that I feel very strongly that the authorization for use of force and the provision that the senator read from it explicitly denies you the authority to go into Iran. Let me say that again. Explicitly denies you the authority to go into Iran. We will fight that out if the president moves. But I just want the record to show -- and I would like to have a legal response from the State Department if they think they have authority to pursue networks or anything else across the border into Iran and Iraq -- that will generate a constitutional confrontation here in the Senate, I predict to you. At least I will attempt to make it a confrontation." [Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, 1/11/07]
At the DNC/Nevada Democratic Party debate, Sen. Biden said regarding President Bush, "If he takes the country to war in Ira[n] without a vote of Congress, which will not exist, then he should be impeached." [CNN, Democratic Debate, 11/15/07]

Taken from AP article on 12/6/07

"Presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden said the agreement signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki setting the foundation for a potential long-term U.S. presence in Iraq, is premature and counterproductive.
Biden, said the "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship" fails to address the main problem, which is solidifying a government that can end sectarian violence.
"Nothing this administration has done, this declaration not withstanding, has brought us any closer to ending this civil war," he said.
"All these Declaration of Principles really are is further confirmation of what I said two years ago. This president has neither a plan to win this war nor a plan to end the war. His plan is to pass it on to the next president."
Iraq and the United States agreed Monday that the U.N.-mandated occupationof Iraq will end in December 2008 and that any U.S. troop presence in the country after that time will be subject to U.S.-Iraq negotiations that are to be completed by next summer.
If he were president, Biden said, he would "dump it." He said the principles neither tie the next president's hands nor solve any problems.
Earlier this week, Biden was critical of Republican presidential hopefuls Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for defending the administration's troop surge, citing a significant decrease in violence. Biden said neither the surge nor Monday's declaration will move Bush closer to his stated goal of building a strong, centralized government in Baghdad.
"We are seeing less violence because the military is doing the job we assign them, as they always do," he said. "Now it's time for the president do his job."

Biden's exit plan entails establishing three or more regions " Shiite, Sunni and Kurd " with a strong but limited central government in Baghdad."

Biden's Resolution passed the House last week and sits on the President's Desk awaiting implementation by a President.

www.planforiraq.com

Look to what Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is creating in Dubai.

Literally all cultures and peoples from the Middle East and the world are freely mixing there socially and for business.

The politics of construction have created extraordinary wealth and advantage for Dubai.

The politics of destruction have created extraordinary debt and burden for others.

It's not too late to learn this lesson.

the State Department probably uses focus groups to come up with the weekly propaganda.

anybody ever been invited to a State Department focus group?

The real picture is the American people havn't got a clue whats going on. The media purposefull dropoff of Bad Iraqi news is more interested in installing warmongering arseholes like Gholiani or Billary. Drink your egg nog and buy your bulshit christmas crap because American STILL occupy anothers country and have absolutely no intention of ever leaving untill every last drop of oil is out of Iraqi and Iranian sand. Have a merry xmas all, because I doubt many Iraqis will be celebrating.

Wait a minute the whitehouse is still trying to blame the Iranians for all the trouble in Iraq. This reporter has not gotten the memo evidently. Then again maybe they are using a new strategy you know lets throw this idea out on to the water and see where it drifts.

As Gertrude Stein once noted about Oakland, there is no there, there; well there is no Iraq, there either. The Kurds, the Sunnis, and the Shiites have largely consolidated their gains and losses into self-governing sectors ethnically cleansed. I say largely because dividing Baghdad really remains a task for the future, not to mention that somehow the future of Iraq's 2.4 million Christian Arabs also hangs in the balance. And then there's Tikrit a yet to be fought over enclave that is oil-rich. But there are so many moving parts in the Iraqi equation that it is hard to note them in a brief blog but I'll try, Sunnis chose the US over al-Qaeda, Iran feared its role in Iraq exposed it to a US invasion, Shiites in Iraq have been ambivalent on Iranian help, refugees everywhere, ethnic-cleansing has been a success, and a waiting game over what the US does next not to mention after some 600,000 to 800,000 already dead a general fatigue. I tend to see this as a lull with the Sunnis rearming with US support and Shiites consolidating their gains. Whatever happens next won't happen until after the US elections.

fear mongering pays big for the wars for profits folks. also have an enemy and it works to keep americans supporting a so called defense budget which is really an offense budget.

the real cause of our demise? the ignorance of the american voter.

Virtually unnoticed by America's army of mainly self-appointed experts is the ample evidence indicating that a true rapproachment is under way between Iran and Saudi Arabia as well as the Arab Gulf States, Egypt, Jordan etc. Increasingly, the US and its "friend" Israel are becoming the "odd men out." Slowly, but surely, control of the entire region is returning to its native peoples, Arabs and Iranians. Thankfully, it is also becoming increasingly clear that the push by Israel and its US neo-con et al. supporters (e.g. Podohertz, Gafney, Frum, Wurmser, Perle, Kristol, Krauthammer, Dershowitz) to convince Washington to attack Iran is proving to be a failure. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of America's over sixty years of ill-conceived and destructive policies vis a vis the Arabs and Iran. It is only a matter of time before the US will act in its own best interests and set expansionist Israel adrift.

Four or five southern provinces in Iraq are in direct control of Tehran. There is no doubt about it. Iran has been the biggest beneficiary by far of this fraud called Iraq war.

The "surge" has also helped in reducing guerilla attacks, as expected. This always happens when fighting guerillas. You put more forces in one place, they'll go undergound or move to another place where they can inflict harm. As soon as the "surge" ends, they'll be right back.

Worse, the insurgents (not terrorists) are now well armed, thanks to the divide and rule tactics of Petraeus. He has armed the Sunnis.

There are only two possibilities. First is there will be a bloodbath between Sunnis and the Shia government. The second is that there will be a political reconciliation of sorts between Shia and Sunni, brokered by Iran, and they jointly will then attack the occupying forces.

Al Qaeda, the terrorists, are fighting a guerilla war on a global basis.

Since the surge, there has been a marked increase in terrorist activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

One thing guerillas need is the support of local populations. The only effective way of defeating guerillas is not by bombing, but by winning the hearts and minds of people and providing them reasons for supporting us rather than al Qaeda. In this aspect, we have failed miserably, and we will continue to fail as long as our "warrenterra" is led by people whose foreign policy begins and ends with bombs.

Bullshit propaganda as usual. Iran was never a major factor. The reason violence is down in Baghdad is because most factions have finally separated into Shia or Sunni neighborhoods and have walled them off.

The Kurds refuse to meet with Rice, Turkey is bombing a country we are occupying. Now we are saying that we are getting along with Iran?

I think we have been getting along with Iran the whole time. How better to prop up extremist factions than to participate in a show of brinksmanship.

again did you talk to the people of Iraq to get a real picture of what's going on.

How about we, that would be Americans, get off our double standard. Iran has a vested interest in the affairs of its neighbors, JUST LIKE the U.S. has a vested interest in the affairs of its neighbors in the western hemisphere. Our arrogance will be our undoing.

I don't give two shits who's right and who's wrong as long as innocent civilians and our soldiers stop dying. Al Qaida and Blackwater I could care less about. Merry Christmas.