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Biden: That SOB Saddam is rolling over in his grave
Thanks WU.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday celebrated America's Independence Day with U.S. troops, including his soldier son Beau, at their base near Baghdad, giving a speech that mocked Saddam Hussein. It's much easier to mock when they're safely dead... Biden, who U.S. President Barack Obama has asked to take a leading role in coordinating U.S. Iraq policy, also presided over a naturalization ceremony for 237 soldiers from 59 countries taking an oath of U.S. citizenship. "We did it in Saddam's palace and I can think of nothing better," Biden said of the naturalization ceremony, held at Al-Faw Palace near Baghdad airport. "That SOB is rolling over in his grave right now," he said of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq's towns and cities this week under the terms of a bilateral security pact that paves the way for a full U.S. withdrawal by 2012, raising concerns Iraq has not made enough political progress to prevent more fighting. Violence has dropped sharply but there remain deep and worrying divisions between Iraq's majority Shi'ite Arabs, Sunni Arabs, ethnic Kurds and other minorities, which some fear could threaten Iraq's future stability. During his meetings with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday, Biden warned that resurgent sectarian or ethnic violence in Iraq was "not something that would make it likely that we'd stay engaged," a U.S. official told reporters on Friday. He added that in Washington, there is no longer "any appetite After the citizenship ceremony, Biden went to the main mess hall at Camp Victory, where he met privately with the Delaware National Guard unit where his son, Beau, serves. He walked through the main cafeteria, grasping soldiers' hands and giving them hugs as they surveyed a July 4th menu of barbecued ribs, hamburgers and elaborately decorated cakes. Posted by: Beavis 2009-07-05 |
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