U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hold a joint news conference in Baghdad July 3, 2009. REUTERS/Khalid Mohammed /PoolFrom Bloomberg:
Vice President Joseph Biden told Iraqi leaders that the U.S. might disengage from their country if it reverts to sustained sectarian or ethnic violence.
“Your future, successful future, is very much in our interest,” Biden said he told Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad today, according to a press pool report of the vice president’s visit to Iraq.
Biden told Maliki during private talks that if Iraq fell into a period of sectarian violence or engaged in ethnic violence, such a step would change the nature of U.S. engagement, a senior administration official said, according to the pool report. The aide did not offer specifics about the change, it said.
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My Comment: A strange comment coming from the Vice President. If I understand him correctly, he is saying that if the violence returns to Iraq, the U.S. will then leave.
Hmmmm .... if I was an Al Qaeda commander or a hostile foreign power, I would take this message for what it means, and deliberately increase the violence and conflict in the country since this would guarantee a U.S. pullout
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