[Texgreen] Bush postponing disaster

[Roger Baker]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/ 
AR2007010401525.html>

White House Postponing Loss of Iraq, Biden Says

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 5, 2007; Page A06

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign  
Relations Committee, said yesterday that he believes top officials in  
the Bush administration have privately concluded they have lost Iraq  
and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next president will  
"be the guy landing helicopters inside the Green Zone, taking people  
off the roof," in a chaotic withdrawal reminiscent of Vietnam.

"I have reached the tentative conclusion that a significant portion  
of this administration, maybe even including the vice president,  
believes Iraq is lost," Biden said. "They have no answer to deal with  
how badly they have screwed it up. I am not being facetious now.  
Therefore, the best thing to do is keep it from totally collapsing on  
your watch and hand it off to the next guy -- literally, not  
figuratively."....