Saturday, September 27, 2008




Today, as Biden's quest for the White House has begun in earnest, the road map he and Gelb unveiled nine months ago is being hailed by many academics and foreign affairs authorities as the best hope for Iraq, where sectarian warfare is raging, thousands of residents are fleeing and suicide bombers launch almost daily attacks.

With recent polls showing most Americans believe invading Iraq was a mistake and President Bush's recent decision to send more troops into battle zones is a bad one, candidates' positions on the conflict could play a deciding role in the 2008 presidential campaign. In a nationwide CBS poll last month, 87 percent called a candidate's stance on Iraq the most important or an important issue.

Supporters of the Biden-Gelb plan include Richard Holbrooke, architect of the 1995 peace accords in the former Yugoslavia and later U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Last month, during hearings chaired by Biden, former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright had kind words.

"I'm sympathetic to an outcome that permits large regional autonomy," Kissinger told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.


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