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Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:17:33 -0400

I thought Fayetteville was in the Green Zone...

— RTB

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

j1c2kp — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:14:45 -0400

RTB you must have been typing this one in a hurry. Go back and read it again.

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

CitizenOpinionated — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:55:29 -0400

But why...President Obama did it and no one really cares?

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

rmmlem — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:50:38 -0400

Hey Joe, If you take your daughter with you make sure you check her bags before going through security. Nose candy is not appreciated on base.

Biden to visit Fort Bragg

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:24:12 -0400

Vice President Joe Biden will return to North Carolina Wednesday to welcome home troops from Iraq.

Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, will speak at a welcome home ceremony at Fort Bragg for the XVIII Airborne Corps back which is returning from Iraq, Rob Christensen reports.

This is the unit's second deployment to Iraq.

His visit will come week after Biden, along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, visited Faison and Pikeville in Eastern North Carolina to discuss how the stimulus package would help rural America.

Back in February, President Obama traveled to Camp Lejuene to announce administration plans to gradually withdraw combat troops from Iraq. Now Biden is welcoming some of those troops home.