Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr.is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, having been jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden represented Delaware as a United States Senator from 1973 until becoming Vice President in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVice President
Date of Birth20 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
deal interest iraq national relates
We have two national emergencies, ... One relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don't think you can take from one to deal with the other.
insurgency iraqis number prepared somewhere
the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.
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They still have no concrete plan as to how we're going to proceed other than hope and pray that this constitution is accepted by the Iraqi people, which seems to me like a tough bet.
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This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success.
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Not one single, solitary Iraqi policeman has completed the 24-week training course on the ground,
iraq inevitable
Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.
war opportunity iraq
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.
thinking iraq decades
Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.
blessing iraq soldier
The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.
iraq goes-on these-days
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
moving average iraq
The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.
courage determination ok
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
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The single most important thing we have to be doing now is make sure that training is on target and that they have the capacity to govern.
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ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.