BIDEN. JOSEPH: Mr. President, I will make a very detailed speech after this vote laying out why I think this vote is important.
BIDEN. JOSEPH: We started down this road. We've have been banging away since the Biden-Hagel-Levin-Snowe resolution back in January, then the Biden-Levin position, and now the Reed-Levin amendment, all of which are essentially the same thing. I want to make it clear that this is simply a first step. We have to keep from careening off this highway here. We have to get out of the civil war, and then we have to be in a position where we come up with a political solution so that when we leave Iraq and we bring our children home, we don't have to send our grandchildren back.
BIDEN. JOSEPH:
BIDEN. JOSEPH:
BIDEN. JOSEPH: I thank my colleagues for giving me this time, and as I said, when the vote is over and there is more time, I will, as passionately as I can, try to clarify what I think the situation is that we find ourselves in in Iraq and what our overall policy--not just the Levin-Reed amendment but what else we must be doing.
BIDEN. JOSEPH:
BIDEN. JOSEPH: I thank the Chair, and I thank my colleague for his generosity, and I yield the floor.