Vice President-elect Joe Biden looks on as President-elect Barack Obama, left, speaks during a news conference in Chicago. (Charles Dharapak/AP)From Breitbart/AFP:
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."
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Update: Kurdistan's man in Washington: Iraq's not over -- Foreign Policy Blog
My Comment: When (then) Senator Biden proposed the fracturing of Iraq into 3 parts .... all Iraqi politicians went public in condemnation of this idea .... and they were not polite when doing it.
He is the wrong man for the job, and if conflicts between the different religious/ethnic groups continues in Iraq .... he will definitely be the wrong man.
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