Senators to Bush: Stay out of Iran

CNN.COM ^ | January 11, 2007 | CNN.COM

[Greystoke]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's warnings to Iran and Syria to not interfere in Iraq and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by U.S. troops raised eyebrows Thursday on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

"I believe the...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

Senator Biden is a bozo.  Those 6 Iranians were in Iraq when they were arrested. 

[Dallas59]

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, said Rice's responses had echoes of the debate over the Vietnam War, when the Nixon administration denied U.S. troops were conducting raids into neighboring Cambodia to stop the flow of weapons to South Vietnam's communist insurgency. Hagel, a veteran of that war, called Bush's plan "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam." (Full story) "When our government lied to the American people and said we didn't cross the border going into Cambodia, in fact we did. I happen to know something about that, as do some on this committee," he said. "Madame Secretary, when you set in motion the kind of policy that the president is talking about here, it's very, very dangerous."

So who's Senators are stopping Iranian "troops" from crossing the Iraqi borders?

[MinorityRepublican]

Senators, I dare you to cut the war funding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Until then, STFU!

[onyx]

Facts don't matter to Biden.

[nopardons]

They NEVER have done, why should they matter to him now?

[BigSkyFreeper]

"When our government lied to the American people and said we didn't cross the border going into Cambodia, in fact we did. I happen to know something about that, as do some on this committee," he said.

Surely Hagel wasn't referring to John EFFEN Skerry's (who's on the committee) Christmas trip to Cambodia?

[Lurker]

Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

Sure he does.

Biden's a moron.

L

[BigSkyFreeper]

Exactly, facts don't matter to eggheads like Biden. In fact, I heard those Iranians were in Baghdad when they were arrested. Hardly a border town.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I just hope he wasn't wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat when he said that.

[wodinoneeye]

Same 'magic line' that cost us so many casualties and ineffectiveness in so many post-WW2 wars........

[dighton]

FWIW, Senator is from senex, ancient drooling bugger.

[Red Steel]

Red Steel to Senators - shut up.

[onyx]

I can hardly wait to see him get creamed in his run for his party's nomination.....LOL.

[pandoraou812]

Biden's a moron.......... I just love that word, moron. It fits so many of the people who are against this war.

[Kakaze]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the House Armed Services Committee that U.S. troops are trying to crack down on the spread of Iranian-supplied explosives into Iraq, and the administration is "making it clear that those who are involved in activities that cost the lives of American soldiers are going to be subject to actions on the part of the United States inside Iraq."

The response from the senators should be Applause followed by the question......" Do you have the funds an equipment you need Mr Secretary?"

Instead these wanna be minipresidents can't get out of their own way. They are so laden with their own self importance they not only don't see the big picture .....they simply don't care about it.

This country could go to hell in a handcart and all they would car about is that they are still in power.

[SeaBiscuit]

"Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"

I notice CNN really likes to lay on all the 'titles' when referring to rats like Biden, but when they're talking about the President it's just "Bush".. disrespectful bast@@ds. Biden ought to shut his stupid trap.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'd like to see him concede his presidential bid by going into a blubbering heap of flesh like Gephardt did when he ran.

[onyx]

That all teeth evil grin and his arrogance. Wow, such a nasty little twerp.

[BigSkyFreeper]

That all teeth evil grin and his arrogance.

Offputting.  I agree.  His arrogance reminds me of a father scolding his kid for wrapping the family truckster around the 200-year old oak tree a block from the family home on a Friday night. 

[onyx]

He's worse. Plagiarist and a liar, Wicked little man.

[Mr. Mojo]

The Democrats are going to be put in an extremely uncomfortable position when we take out Iran's nuclear facilities -- they condemn a successful military operation that eliminates a nuclear danger from an avowed enemy of the U.S. at their own political peril. But Biden is stupid enough to do it.

[onyx]

Agreed. Biden is plenty stupid.

[BigSkyFreeper]

He's also the unofficial record holder of the longest question ever asked behind the committee room table. (15 minutes).

[onyx]

I truly despise him and all who continue to reelect him.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I do too. I get dry heaves just looking at him and his dripping arrogant evil toothy grin.

[M. Espinola]

Bring it on? Sooner then you think Monkey Boy.

[familyop]

Just as during the Vietnam War, some of our politicians are trying to illegally restrict our military forces to stay within certain borders, while the same politicians are facilitating enemy mobility to attack however the enemy wishes to do so.

It appears that some of our politicians are again working for special interests that are supporting the wrong side.

[MaxMax]

Dear Dems.

If you cannot offer support.
Get the F-outa the way!

[Greystoke]

This country could go to hell in a handcart and all they would car about is that they are still in power


Could?

[djf]

Stupid Iranians.

Don't they know the trick to jumping the border is to pretend they're Mexicans going to Iraq to pick lettuce?

If they did that, we wouldn't have paid any attention to them at all.

[Caipirabob]

Democrats to President Bush" "Stay out of Iran"

"Amedinejad isn't an insane, terror loving, anti-American, anti-semetic nutjob. He just needs a hug, silly!"

[quietolong]

Who says the KGB is dead.

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/622675/posts

You have your orders!

[goldstategop]

The Democrats' newest version of cut and run is cut and bleed. They'd rather allow our troops to be murdered by Syrian and Iranian interference in Iraq than have us put a stop to exactly that sort of affairs that's breeding chaos in Iraq. So much for their pledge "to support the troops."

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Joe Boucher]

Yep we should stay out of Iran, just shoot a few cruise missles with nukes there, no troops.

[rawcatslyentist]

Oh, they support "THE" troops. Just not our troops.

[daybreakcoming]

FOX has done it also. Couple years ago the news reader Sally something was covering the WH and kept calling him "Bush". I fired off a note to FOX about the disrespect of the Office. Noticed almost immediately that she began calling him by his title. But there are several who do not use the title unless they are talking about Clinton as if *he* were still the president.
Just one of those things that grate on me.

[Greystoke]

bttt

[roses of sharon]

Wow, these "US" Senators are tougher on the Pres than they are on Iran.

Not surprising since none of the cowards as ever done a thing about Iran's kidnapping of US citizens.

What good is a United States Senator, when he protects the enemy?

Whom does he serve?

[Skywarner]

"Facts don't matter to Biden."

The only thing that matter to Joe 'the plagerist' Biden is the ability to cut and paste.

[TigersEye]

The libs seem to be hysterically afraid that we might win this war yet. It would certainly go a long way towards ending many far-lefty careers.

Git 'er done!