Joseph Biden
Joseph 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...
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I still believe we can preserve our fundamental security interests in Iraq as we begin to redeploy our forces,
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This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.
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The sooner we make security the top agenda item, and utilize sufficient American and international resources to achieve it, the faster we can help Iraqis improve their lives and bring home our troops.
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What happens when our ambassador has to stand up and make the case on intelligence relating to Iraq and North Korea? ... Do you think John Bolton is going to be believed? And do you think it matters? I think it matters a great deal.
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Iraq cannot be salvaged by military might alone,
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I think 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, ... Late Edition.
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It acknowledges that the Security Council fully understands that this is the world's problem -- Iraq is the world's problem -- not just the United States problem, and that failure to secure the peace in Iraq would have significant consequences and ramifications for the region and the world,
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We can't keep the peace in Iraq anymore than the Iraqis want it. We can't want it more than they want it. And if they don't step up to the ball, we're going to be gone.
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We need a civilian commitment in Iraq equal to our military one.
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I'm sure the argument will be why are we nit-picking, but what I want to do at a minimum in the debate is lay out what I understand what the president's committing to do,
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The administration has got to get its act together. Don't give me this amorphous malarkey about we'll stay there until the job is done.
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The administration has got to get its act together,
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They know they have to make changes. They both said, 'Give us some time.
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I'm talking about people ... who will come in here with guns and understand that they don't have to check with anybody before they return fire,