US to be 'more aggressive' with Iraq on political reform

Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States would have to be "more aggressive" in prodding Iraq's government on forging political reform.

Biden said before heading off to Munich on the first overseas trip by a key player in the Obama administration that last week's provincial elections in Iraq had shown that progress was being made but more needed to be done.

He said Iraq's leaders had not "gotten their political arrangements together yet."

"Our administration is going to have to be very deeply involved not only keeping the commitment that we've made drawing down our troops in an orderly fashion consistent with what we said."

He said the administration would have to be "much more aggressive ... forcing them to deal with those issues."