Biden warns of 'hard road ahead' as he visits Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Vice President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iraqi officials that Washington would politically disengage if sectarian and ethnic strife resumed as he warned of a "hard road ahead".
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