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To: Rambi who wrote (13543)	10/23/2003 5:56:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793609

Biden goes after the Dem candidates on their Foreign Policy positions. Kinda funny when you tie it in with his politicizing of Rumsfeld memo yesterday. ______________________________________________ Biden gives low marks to candidates' foreign policy WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday that none of the Democratic presidential candidates has expressed a coherent foreign policy although it's early in the campaign. Sen. Joseph Biden has been critical of the Democratic presidential candidates. By Terry Ashe, AP Sen. Joseph Biden, who once flirted with the idea of seeking the party's nomination, said the candidates have to "demonstrate that they have a foreign policy, a security policy, that is coherent and is grown up, that we can handle the bad things out there in the world." "If it's only 'I voted to go in (to Iraq)' or 'I thought we should've gone in, but now we shouldn't spend any money there,' that is not a particularly coherent policy. And I think it will maybe work well in the primary, but I don't think it works very well in the general (election)," the Delaware lawmaker told reporters. Two senators in the race, John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, had voted for the resolution authorizing the Iraq war last year, but opposed the $87 billion Iraq-Afghanistan spending package approved by the House and Senate last week. Biden said it is early in the campaign and there isn't a forum that would allow the candidates to present a complete foreign policy. He said if he were a candidate, "I would just want to make sure I was being consistent." Biden said he wants to help shape Democratic foreign policy, but he said, "what I don't want to do is flyspeck their (the candidates') primary strategy." He added: "I mean I'm a guy that didn't make it to Iowa, so how the hell do I know." Find this article at: usatoday.com