BIDEN FAULTS PETRAEUS ON IRAQ ASSESSMENT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/...zWrmrqZ6th24cA

so is this sopposed to be good for dream??? elaborate please.

"Ahead of two days of crucial testimony by Bush's leading military and political advisers on Iraq, Sen. Joseph Biden indicated that he and other Democrats would persist in efforts to set target dates for bringing troops home."

"Stressing that a political solution was the key, he said, "I will insist on a firm beginning to withdraw the troops and I will insist on a target date to get American combat forces out," except for those necessary to protect U.S. civilians and fight al-Qaida."

"Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he respects the judgment of Petraeus but will not blindly follow his assessment."
"We're going to look behind the generalizations that General Petraeus or anybody gives us and probe the very hard facts to see exactly what the situation is," Specter said. "As I've said in the past, unless we see some light at the end of the tunnel here, very closely examining what General Petraeus and others have to say, I think there's a general sense that there needs to be a new policy."



It looks like to me that they want troops out ASAP so they want withdrawal plan, I think that Bush made it worse by going to iraq given his speech b4 petraeus speech, *in my opinion* he sort of belittled congress opinion on the war it also made it seem like he influenced petraues speech, i feel like now they wont even take petraues speech into consideration..i hope im wrong...as mentioned b4 if congress passess the DoD bill with any mention of withdrawal then its going to get vetoed... I also think that its a presidential tactic by Biden he is a presidential candidate and if he wins the election he doesnt want the responsibilty of how to fix this mess while he is in office...the sad thing about this is that i dont even think they care about the war i think there only worried about who the blame is going to fall on if they dont fix it b4 the next presidential election.