Posted on 07/03/2009 7:32:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
Biden Warns Iraq Leaders Of Return to Ethnic Fights
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: July 3, 2009
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told Iraqi leaders on Friday that he and President Obama were committed to helping them resolve their political differences, but he warned that the United States would be unlikely to remain engaged in Iraq if the country reverted to sectarian violence, American officials said.
Mr. Biden spent the day in closed-door meetings to assess Iraq’s political and security situation as part of his new role as an unofficial envoy for the Obama administration.
He emerged from a session with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to issue a carefully worded statement — partly an offer of support, partly a nudge to action.
“The president and I appreciate that Iraq has traveled a great distance over the past year, but there is a hard road ahead if Iraq is going to find lasting peace and stability,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s not over yet.”
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he’s such a brilliant diplomat.
/sarc
Biden’s a BUTT!!!!!
Mr. Encouragement personified. Does this guy even have an IQ? STHU The only thing that scares me more than Obama, is the fact this idiot is next in line.
All day I heard on news breaks that Joe was listening to the soldier’s concerns, the difficulty being deployed was on their marriages and ‘health care’. Right...
He has a gun for a mouth with the safety off.
What a giant, steaming crock of crap.
This great nation may not survive this “administration.”
I sure hope they can get “Rimshot” Joe out of Iraq before he has a chance to say something REALLY stupid.
We occupied a Muslim country and will leave it a Muslim country. Now what does Biden expect to happen?
Nothing has happened in all the years of involvement there to change the heart or nature of those people. Godless politics doesn’t do that. We might hinder some of their radical responses for a while, using military force, strap them down some while we are there, but when we leave . . . . .
In just a little time, Iraq will revert to something even worse than we left it. Muslim clerics and despots will see to that.
What an idiot. It still amazes me how the absolute WORST people in the country for the most important offices of power on earth got there in the first place!!!
Who voted for these dorks anyways?
Biden is the ‘tard who wanted to split Iraq up into three separate countries...thinking that would make everything hunky dory over there.
He is about as big a joke as Hussein. Neither one of them is fit to be President, but we’re stuck with these clueless boobs.
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