A SENSIBLE PLAN FOR IRAQ BY NORMAN A. LOCKMAN.(MAIN)

As a voice crying in the wilderness, U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., has a few advantages. He has regular access to national television, The Washington Post and The New York Times. That's partly because he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but also because his voice contrasts starkly with Bush policy that he says is ``stuck in neutral.''

Biden cannot be accused of being opposed to military intervention in Iraq. He may have held his nose at the Bush administration's clumsy approach, but he bought into the need to do something about Saddam Hussein and what were believed to be his horde of weapons of mass destruction.

Biden …