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May 17, 2007

Still Debating The Issue

Joe Biden continues his quest to have an Iraq-centered debate. The DNC announced its official debate schedule 5/16 and today Biden sent a letter to the networks chiefs and DNC Chair Howard Dean calling for one of the six scheduled debates to focused solely on Iraq. (No letter was sent to FNC but that network is not scheduled to host any of the debates).

Excerpts from the letter that went to CNN Pres. Jon Klein, ABC News Pres. David Westin, NBC News Pres. Steve Capus, and CBS News Pres. Sean McManus: "I am asking you today to make at least one of these debates a 90-minute discussion solely devoted to ending the war in Iraq and the implications of our policy prescriptions for the world, the region, for Iraq and, most importantly, for our troops and the American people.

And he wrote to Dean: "I am asking you today to help me push the network sponsors to make at least one of these debates a 90-minute discussion solely devoted to ending the war in Iraq." [EMILY GOODIN]


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