5 Challenges as Biden Visits Iraq

30 August 2010, 9:24 am

Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq to mark Tuesday's formal end to the U.S. combat mission. Though 50,000 troops will remain, tomorrow shifts the U.S. mission from a military to a political focus, with Biden joining the many U.S. and Iraqi officials trying to break the political deadlock that has persisted since March. Iraq's national elections earlier this year ended with neither Prime ...... Read More »

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