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Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan serves notice on the Karzai government that "you now have to step up to the ball."
President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan looks at first like a defeat for his vice president, who pushed hard for holding down the number of U.S. troops in the country. But the plan also gives Vice President Biden a lasting victory: a strategy that lays out far more modest goals for the embattled nation.
View full size AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks at the opening of his jobs summit, officially known as the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum, Thursday, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, D.C.
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan serves notice on the Karzai government that "you now have to step up to the ball." A day after President Barack Obama outlined his plan to send 30,000 additional troops, Biden said on CBS's "The Early Show" that the announcement of a plan to commence withdrawal by July ...
The Vice President spoke to Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today to discuss President Obama’s decision on the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Vice President thanked President Zapatero for Spain’s important contributions to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, and encouraged continued Spanish support for this mission in the future.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said today the Obama administration’s new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
Biden deserves significant credit for key parts of the president's plan. According to a senior White House source, the vice president believes that the president's review has produced a sound strategy.
President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan looks at first like a defeat for his vice president, who pushed hard for holding down the number of U.S. troops in the country. But the plan also gives Vice President Biden a lasting victory: a strategy that lays out far more mo...
WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Wednesday for last week's security breach at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, but insisted that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
Senator Orrin Hatch recently criticized my suggestion that Senate Republicans are preventing President Barack Obama from appointing federal judges and urged me "and other apologists [to get our] facts straight, tell the whole story, and realize that our nation's leaders are responsible for their choices and priorities."
What's Your Reaction? Vice President Joseph Biden will be appearing on all three network morning shows Wednesday to discuss the Obama administration's new Afghanistan policy, confirms a source who helps handle television bookings.
Vice President Joe Biden says he assumed they were invited guests. He's talking about Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who posed for pictures with Biden and others at last week's state dinner for the prime minister of India. It turned out they were there without an invitation.
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, are continuing a family tradition of spending Thanksgiving with family on Nantucket. The family started the tradition of spending the holiday on the island more than three decades ago, but this will be the former Delaware senator's first Thanksgiving as vice president there.
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sen. Ted Kaufman (D., Del.) will hold a hearing next week to examine the role of financial fraud in the current economic crisis, asking representatives from the Attorney General's office, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss the issue.
The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Thursday for last week's security breach at President Obama's first state dinner, but he said that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
