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Vice President Joe Biden greets U.S. Marines while touring the Coalition Cafe dining facility in Baghdad, Iraq, July 4, 2009. Biden posed for photos and talked to many troops while walking through the facility.

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Vice President Joe Biden greets U.S. Marines while touring the Coalition Cafe dining facility in Baghdad, Iraq, July 4, 2009. Biden posed for photos and talked to many troops while walking through the facility.

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