Biden tries to rebound after supporting Bush Iraq bill

Just one week after voting for President Bush's Iraq war funding bill, Joe Biden is back-tracking a bit.  His campaign issued a press release intended to calm all the frustration that has been headed in the Democratic presidential candidate's direction:

After misleading the American peoplethat the troop surge would be temporary and limited, the BushAdministration is finally acknowledging that the ‘surge’ is really anescalation with no end in sight.  Given the many years of failed Bushpolicies in Iraq, the American people want and deserve to knowPresidential candidates’ plans for getting us out of Iraq.

Biden wants to hold a Democratic presidential debate that solely covers the issue of Iraq.  No other candidate has yet to accept the invitation.

By voting to the way he did one week ago, Biden showed us that his plan for getting out of Iraq is to simply wait until January of 2009 before doing anything.  Some in the Senate, such as Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, wanted to put their foot down and force Bush to follow a timeline for withdrawal.  Joe Biden did not.  He voted alongside the 79 other Senators to defy a majority of the country that does not favor an open-ended policy.  It will be awfully difficult for Senator Biden to wipe his hands clean of that vote.