NEW YORK - Casting himself as the candidate best positioned to end the Iraq war, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden has launched a new Web site, http://www.headtohead08.com , to contrast his statements on the Iraq conflict to those of his opponents for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
The Biden campaign scoured YouTube and assembled videos of each candidate speaking about the war, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The campaign said the videos they selected were those that best represented each lawmaker's views on the war.
The Web site posts each clip next to a video showing Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, delivering a detailed speech on the war from the Senate floor.
"It is important for voters to start focusing on the distinctions between the candidates regarding how they would deal with the mess we inherit in Iraq," Biden said in a statement from Iowa, where is was campaigning Monday.
"During my recent travels to Iowa and South Carolina, it is obvious to me that the American people are looking to answer the question, 'What next?'" he said. "They know that every candidate wants to get us out of Iraq. What they don't know is if we have a plan to do it without leaving a worse mess behind than we found."
Biden voted in 2002 to authorize military action in Iraq but has become a leading critic of the war since then. He has advocated a plan to divide the country along ethnic lines, with a central government responsible for border security and allocation of oil resources.
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