Joe Biden Iraq Quotations

They still have no concrete plan as to how we're going to proceed other than hope and pray that this constitution is accepted by the Iraqi people, which seems to me like a tough bet.

Not one single, solitary Iraqi policeman has completed the 24-week training course on the ground,

This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success.

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

We have two national emergencies, ... One relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don't think you can take from one to deal with the other.