Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Nation & World

Senator Pushes Bipartisan Plan to Partition Iraq

By Paul Bedard
Posted 4/25/07

Sen. Sam Brownback, a 2008 GOP presidential candidate, today said that he hopes to move a bipartisan bill calling for the partitioning of Iraq into three states before the Democratic supplemental funding bill for the war goes to the president for his promised veto.

"I'd like to do it before we go to veto," he said in a roundtable interview with reporters this morning. His plan: teaming with Sen. Joe Biden, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to push forward Biden's plan to move toward a political division of the war-torn nation. However, Brownback said that while he's been talking with Biden about the plan, the Delaware senator has not committed to it.

Brownback said both parties have addressed the war wrongly, with the Republicans focused on mostly military planning and the Democrats on bashing the president.

"We cannot fight a war with one party for it and one party against it," he said.

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