Joe Biden and Sam Brownback teamed up across party lines yesterday to speak in Iowa, promoting their plan to divide Iraq into a loose federal state.

The two underscored how important it is to bring about solutions across both Shia-Sunni lines in Iraq, and Democratic/Republican lines in America.

"The solution to our situation in Iraq is, quite frankly, more important than who will be the next president," said Biden. "It is like the boulder sitting in the road."

"The divisions are so deep, the stakes so high and the time so short," Brownback said, "that we owe it to ourselves to bring all sides to the table and resolve the major issues facing Iraq."