Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden greeted supporters after a rally at the United Mine Workers of America, District 17's 13th Annual Fish Fry at the Russell County Fairgrounds in Castlewood, Va., yesterday.
(Don Petersen/Associated Press)
Iraq moving toward Biden's controversial vision
Power being decentralized on its own
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden greeted supporters after a rally at the United Mine Workers of America, District 17's 13th Annual Fish Fry at the Russell County Fairgrounds in Castlewood, Va., yesterday.
(Don Petersen/Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - In May 2006, at the height of the violence in Iraq, Senator Joe Biden floated a controversial proposal: carve out autonomous regions for the three main ethnic and religious groups - Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Arab Shi'ites - and give them control of most governmental functions except for the military and oil industry, which would remain under central ... (Full article: 1085 words)
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