Typical Biden mistake, from today's Times:

The senator explained that he had just barely caught the direct flight from Washington to Des Moines that evening, “since neither Hillary nor Barack will lend me their G5 jets,” and that there had been no time to change. “I got in the plane — I was meeting with President Talabani, you know, he’s the Kurdish leader in Iraq, and I literally ran from that meeting in the Capitol.”

Talabani, of course, is the president of Iraq, not "the Kurdish leader." If anyone is the Kurdish leader, it's Masoud Barzani. Talabani is a Kurd, and leader of the PUK, but he's supposed to be the president of Iraq. Only the partition-minded Biden can only see him as assigned to a particular ethnic group.