Biden asks: Then what?

It's easy to tell voters that the United States should get out of Iraq, says Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. It's a lot harder, he says, to be honest about what would happen if we left. That's the essence of a new campaign by Biden to get his Democratic presidential rivals to talk not just about pulling our troops out, but doing it in a way that doesn't send the country further into chaos.

Biden advocates turning Iraq into a loosely federalized country with three regions divided along religious and ethnic lines: one for Sunni, one for Shia, and one for Kurds. His campaign today unveiled a new website called "You can't duck the question!" The idea is to get supporters to upload 30-second videos on YouTube asking rival candidates to explain how their pull-out plans would affect Iraq. Biden is hoping enough people make such videos that CNN and YouTube, sponsors of a Democratic debate next Monday, will use them for questions.

"I have been touring the country for two years – going everywhere from primary states, to red states, and everything in between. The issue that weighs on everyone’s mind - no matter where I am - is how we are going to end this war," Biden said in a statement. "President Bush will leave the next president with no margin for error in dealing with some of the most critical foreign policy challenges our country has faced in the last fifty years – and ending this war properly is the critical starting point."

Here's a video that explains further.