Biden: We Will Follow ISIS ‘To The Gates Of Hell’

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 23, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks on voting rights at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas. Vice President Joe Biden is going to get a firsthand look at work done... FILE - In this Wednesday, July 23, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks on voting rights at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas. Vice President Joe Biden is going to get a firsthand look at work done at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard before another possible round of base closings, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 (AP Photo/John Locher, File) MORE LESS
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Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the United States would follow the Islamist State of Iraq and Syria straight “to the gates of hell” because that’s where they will “reside.”

“The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand,” Biden said in comments flagged by Buzzfeed. “As a nation we are united and when people harm Americans we don’t retreat, we don’t forget. We take care of those who are grieving and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice because hell is where they will reside.”

The comments are some of the most direct to date by a top member of the Obama administration. Biden’s comments at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine on Wednesday, come a day after ISIS released a video showing the group beheading a second U.S. journalist, Steven Joel Sotloff, who had been held as a prisoner.

Audio of Biden’s comments can be heard here.

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  1. Well, I guess we’ll be using the backdoor since we are supposedly already there.

  2. Then he said, “This one’s for you, Heather Childers.”

  3. Apparently ISIS is on their way to Dick Cheney’s house…

  4. You tell 'em, Joe. We need to kill these m*fuckers.

  5. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    Good-- he’s using the strong language the President can’t, without seeming like a fanatical warmonger.

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