claim: "i never called for a partition" of iraq.
author: joe biden
evidence_1: aug 5, 2015 ... he responded, "i never called for a partition." politifact looked into biden's  statements on the issue and rated the vice president's statement as "true." biden,  politifact stated, has "consistently upheld the idea of one iraq with a central  government, albeit a more modest one responsible for such things as ...
evidence_2: dec 22, 2010 ... "sen. joe biden, the ranking member of the foreign relations committee,  recommended partitioning iraq into three separate entities. republicans were ...  and during a july 18, 2010 interview on abc's this week, biden said: "i don't  want to debate history here, but i never called for a partition. i called for a ...
evidence_3: sep 7, 2016 ... cia director john brennan is questioning whether syria and iraq "can be put  back together again" given the violence and sectarian tensions in both countries,  raising doubts about a ... the us has long called for a unified iraq, despite  sectarian divisions that have led some to recommend a partitioned state.
evidence_4: aug 15, 2017 ... today, russia came out joining the us in calls to postpone the referendum while  saying that moscow would oppose any measures which harm iraq's territorial  integrity, including kurdish separatism. russia has encouraged local kurdish  leaders to engage in constructive dialogue with baghdad in order to ...
evidence_5: in his limited response to isis after its seizure of mosul in early june, obama  called for, among other things, iraq's “territorial integrity” to be respected.  obviously ... both are geographic abstractions that never would have existed had  european colonial mapmakers not created them in the early twentieth century for  their own ...