From http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/18/burns-iraq-plan:

"CONRAD BURNS: I said we gotta win. He wants to pull out. He wants everybody to know our plan. That’s not smart. If you had a plan in order to win are you gonna tell the enemy? He’s not — the enemy’s not gonna tell us! That is absolutely unbelievable that anyone would take that approach! He says our president don’t have a plan. I think he’s got one. But he’s not gonna tell everybody in the whole world. And if you wanna go out and spar for a fight or you gonna tell your enemy what your plan is? I don’t think so. And that’s the way we’ll win it, Because we want to win it.

[SNIP TESTER REMARKS]

BURNS: Again he says there’s no plan. There is a plan. We’re not gonna tell you, John. We’re not gonna tell you what our plan is because you’ll just go out there and blow it. Period! By heavens, that’s just common sense. That’s enough.

JON TESTER: I just wanna say one thing.

BURNS: Wait a minute, hold the phone!

TESTER: Ok, all right, all right.

MODERATOR: This is his response.

TESTER: This is my response…

MODERATOR: Just this last word, then we’ll move on.

BURNS: No, I don’t think he has. I think he’s out of bounds.

MODERATOR: No, no.

TESTER: Mike asked me a question, I answered, you get to answer, I get to answer. That’s the way it works.

BURNS: Oh really?

TESTER: Yes.

BURNS: Like checkers?

TESTER: That’s the way it works. Well it’s interesting, Senator Burns because I listened to some of your comrades on TV last week who came back from Iraq, I guess they don’t know the plan either. The chairman of the Armed Services Committee doesn’t know the plan but you do. Because the chairman of the Armed Services Committee says that if things don’t change we need to change things. We need to have a plan."

From http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/016472.asp

"Sen. Burns behind 11 points in poll against Tester
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Montana voters are deserting Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) in droves and they say Jack Abramoff is the reason.

Burns is down 11 points in the latest poll, conducted by the Montana State University-Billings political science department. Democrat Jon Tester leads with 46 percent.

The overwhelming majority of poll respondents identified Abramoff as an issue. Burns accepted more than $150,000 in campaign contributions from Abramoff and Abramoff's associates, the most of any member of Congress.

Burns serves as chairman of the Senate Interior Appropriations subcommittee, which handles Indian funding. The 2004 Interior appropriations bill contained at least 3 provisions favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients."

Thanks for your informative post about senator Conrad Burns. He is number two only to George Felix Macacque. For the sake of America those two ought to go.

The Democratic Iraq plan is what precisely? Hint: It's just as undefined as Bush's plan.