Dems call for an Afghanistan study group

[Alamom]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obamas-name-missing-from-afghanistan-letter-2007-08-28.html


Dems call for an Afghanistan study group
By Klaus Marre
August 28, 2007

Three of the Senate’s four Democratic presidential candidates, with the notable absence of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), joined together Tuesday in asking the Bush administration to create a bipartisan Afghanistan Study Group.

Citing growing problems in Afghanistan, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Joe Biden (Del.) and Chris Dodd (Conn.) joined Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in petitioning the White House for the establishment of a commission along the lines of the Iraq Study Group. Such a panel, the senators argued, would help find solutions for the mounting problems there.


“Addressing Afghanistan’s myriad and interrelated military, political, diplomatic and economic problems poses a significant challenge,” the senators wrote in a letter to Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Biden is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which all the senators except Clinton are members. Obama also has a seat on the panel but did not sign the letter. An Obama aide said that the senator had already laid out his Afghanistan policy in a speech earlier this month.

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The office of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee did not respond to an inquiry as to why Obama did not co-sign the letter.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Yessir ree ...

because we all know the bi-partisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee has not a clue what to do.