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Biden touts foreign policy experience in new ads

By Scott Helman, Political Reporter August 20, 2007 02:00 PM

Hillary Clinton may be trying to run as the candidate of experience, but she apparently forgot to tell Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, who uses his first TV ads of the campaign to highlight his vision for Iraq and his decades spent in the trenches of American foreign policy. The ads are scheduled to run through Labor Day weekend and will cost $250,000, according to Biden's campaign.

In the first ad, "Cathedral," Biden talks about returning home from his fourth trip to Iraq alongside a coffin on a C-130 transport plane. He says he can't imagine what the parents of the dead soldier are going through. "We must end this war in a way that doesn't require us to send their grandchild back," he says. Watch it below.

Biden's second ad, called "Security," celebrates his many years as a foreign affairs specialist in the Senate. "Joe Biden has dealt with the world's most dangerous problems," the narrator says. Watch it below.

Meanwhile, Biden's new book, "Promises to Keep," has landed on The New York Times bestseller list.

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