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BAGHDAD — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American troop withdrawal.
Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman sits down with the Dover Post to talk about current issues before Congress.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office Monday afternoon. The meeting comes ahead of a string of congressional hearings this week at which the two will testify on Obama's plan to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan and to begin bringing them home in July 2011.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn), at the White House this morning.
Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Sunday afternoon still mired in intraparty disagreements over health care overhaul legislation but committed to resolving their differences before Christmas Day.
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."
BAGHDAD — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden intervened personally to save an agreement allowing Iraq's elections to proceed, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Monday, highlighting the stakes in the deal for an eventual American troop withdrawal.
Scattered conservatives want former Vice President Dick Cheney to do more than beat President Obama in the press. They want him to beat him in the 2012 election.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers ended a governmental crisis yesterday by passing an election law just before a midnight deadline, after intense wrangling among the sides and, according to several participants, late phone calls from U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
EXECUTING THE PLAN Kevin Surace schools Vice President Joe Biden on the finer points of eco-friendly products at the former Republic Windows plant.' The Secret Service wasn't thrilled about a last-minute addition to the group sharing the stage with the Vice President. But Kevin Surace was insistent. Upon arriving at his company's Chicago factory on that warm, wet morning in April, Surace had ...
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.
The law, a test of Iraq's democratic ambitions, is passed just before a midnight deadline. Elections are expected to be held by the end of February. Iraqi lawmakers ended a governmental crisis Sunday by passing an election law just before a midnight deadline, after intense wrangling among the sides and, according to several participants, late phone calls from President Obama and Vice President ...
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.
