Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq and met with Iraq's president, prime minister and U.S. General Ray Odierno.

Biden has been appointed to oversee the administration's Iraq policy.

"The president wants to focus within the White House on the implementation of our administration's plan to both draw down troops in Iraq which is underway the first stage, but also the second piece of that plan is for there to be a combination of a political settlement among all the factions within Iraq," he said.

This is Biden's first trip to Iraq as vice president.