The wait is over, thankfully, and it’s Joe Biden. I like the pick. Biden has enormous credibility on foreign policy–he’s the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is often descibed as a foreign policy expert and he just visited Georgia at the request of Georgia’s President.
If anyone still has any doubts about whether President Bush is exercising powers that any self-respecting dictator would relish, all he has to do is consider the military pact that Bush is entering into with Iraq. The pact involves the continued U.S. military occupation of Iraq as well as a date on which U.S. military forces will be expected to exit the country.
Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, has chosen Joe Biden, a senator from the state of Delaware, as his vice-presidential running mate, according to his website.
Hundreds of Afghans have staged an angry protest in the Shindand district in western Afghanistan after scores of people were reportedly killed in an raid by US-led forces.
The United States and France have criticised Russia for failing to comply with a ceasefire agreement to end the conflict Georgia, as hundreds of troops remained on Georgian territory.
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, said that he wanted a running mate who would be prepared to step in as president, could help him govern and would challenge him.
Delaware senator Joe Biden will no doubt be eager to do all he can to unsure that he takes up the post of vice-president after the US presidential election in November.
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Israel has issued a tough warning to members of the Free Gaza protest group not to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory.
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