Biden's Warning To Condi on Attacking Iran

[orleans]

Foreign relations committee January 11, 2007
Biden’s wrap up--warning Condi (excerpt)

Biden: secondly, I also want to make it clear, as chairman of the committee, that I feel very strongly that the authorization of the use of force in the provision that the senator (webb) read from it explicitly denies you the authority to go into iran. Let me say that again: explicitly denies you the authority to go into iran. We will fight that out if the president moves but I just want the record to show, and I would like to have a legal response from the state department that if they think they have authority to pursue networks or anything else across the boarder into Iran and Iraq (meant Syria) that will generate a constitutional confrontation here in the senate, I predict to you. At least I will attempt to make it a confrontation.