This is a weird comment on the part of Sen. Joe Biden (D-Mercury) on CNN's Situation Room (transcript):BIDEN: […] I met with the Security Council privately on Monday, the permanent five of the Security Council, up in New York City. And I raised the question with them. I said, if the president came to you and said, we want to make this the world's problem, we want you to call an international conference on Iraq , and bring in the parties, so we can be -- come up with a political solution, would you do it? They all said, yes, their countries would.Seems to me, any meeting with the United Nations ought to be handled through the State Department. Is this yet another attempt by Congressional Democrats to do an end run around the Bush administration's diplomats?
What sort of outrage would there be if there was a Demcorat in the White House and Republicans running off to conduct talks with Syria (as Pelosi and company - including at least one White Flag Republican - did) and now the United Nations Security Council.
Or is Joe Biden suffering from a John Kerry Moment and is exaggerating...
UPDATE: This just in...
Sen. Biden’s “private” meeting with the Security Council wasn’t actually private – it was attended by other Senators, including a Republican.Who is this Republican and was the meeting conducted with the blessings of the State Department?
