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July 01, 2009
Biden to Take New Role Overseeing Iraq Policy
Biden to take new role overseeing Iraq policy....Biden's New Job: Beacon Of Bipartisanship
President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there.
The White House said Tuesday that Biden would work closely with General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq and US ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill as US forces prefer to leave for good by the end of 2011.
"The vice president has been asked by the president to oversee the policy," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Biden would work with Iraqis "toward overcoming their political differences and achieving the type of reconciliation that we all understand has yet to fully take place but needs to take place."
"Given his knowledge of the region, the number of times he's been there, he's perfectly suited for this type of role," Gibbs said.
Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee before becoming vice president, has made repeated trips to Iraq, and is playing a similar role overseeing a 787 billion economic stimulus package.
Gibbs said that an idea once put forward by Biden, of dividing Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities into a federation of autonomous zones, was not on the table for the Obama administration.
He said the vice president's role would likely include travel to Iraq and also meetings with the key players on US Iraq policy.
Biden's new portfolio had been rumored for several days, and Gibbs confirmed the reports on the day that US troops withdrew from the center of Iraqi cities and towns under an agreement with the Baghdad government.
Wild Thing's commnet..........
LOL Obama has been getting ticked at Biden for his many gaffes. The last one I think was when he kidded about the birth certificate. So now he has planned for Biden to be as far away from 1600 Penn. Ave. as possible.
Talk about your disasters waiting to happen!
Posted by Wild Thing at July 1, 2009 06:50 AM
Comments
Why? The man can't even change a tire without help. He'd get his hands dirty! This is stupid decision on Obama's part. But then, when has he ever made a decent, correct decision?
Posted by: Lynn at July 1, 2009 08:13 AM
Oh Boy! Biden the gaffe machine to oversee Iraqi policy. I can just see this idiot trying to divide Iraq up while the rest of Washington is trying to unite it. All our efforts in Iraq may well go to waste under the clumsy, Marxist hands of obama and Biden.
Posted by: TomR at July 1, 2009 12:27 PM
Maybe we'll get lucky and Joe will make an unforgivable breech of etiquette. Lesson #1 Joe. Take your shoes off and toss them at Al Malaki, it's a formal gesture of respectful greeting. Like patting an Asian on the head, or stealing their soul (taking a picture). Ask where's the Burqa bitch? Then tell them it was a joke and that Nancy is wearing it as underwear.
Posted by: Jack at July 1, 2009 01:41 PM
If Biden is in charge of Iraq policy, that means obama could care less about Iraq. Why else would he put his chief dunce in charge of such an important mission.
Posted by: Mark at July 1, 2009 02:08 PM
Lynn,LMAO that is so funny about the tire.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2009 12:49 AM
Tom, oh yesss that's right he was the one
that wanted to divide Iraq up like some kind
of subdivision in a big city.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2009 12:55 AM
Jack, heh heh good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2009 12:56 AM
Mark, good point, I think Obama
even hates to think about Iraq. He
resents that he has to deal with it
at all.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2009 12:58 AM
