Posted on 06/12/2014 4:56:56 AM PDT by nhwingut
On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government."
The vice president said he’d been to Iraq 17 times and visits the country every three months or so. "I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society" he said. "It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences."
At the briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Biden calling Iraq one of the great potential achievements of the Obama administration given that Biden had previously advocated that the country should be divided into thirds and split among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, and then-Sen. Obama opposing the surge of US troops that many experts argue helped bring stability that allowed the reconciliation process to continue.
In fact, in January 2007 then-Sen. Obama said that he was "not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."
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I’d say old Joe is right. Surrending an entire country to al Qaeda and simultaneously p*ssing away 4,448 American lives and a trillion taxpayer dollars spent in blood and treasure is a tremendous achievement for Obama. It sure surpasses anything Bin Laden could have done.
Tha'ts about the only thing I agreed with Biden on.
I would have armed the Kurds to protect their territory, and allowed the Shiites and Sunnis to fight it out for the rest of the area.
The Sunnis and Shiites are starting to fight it out now. -tom
Vice POSOTUS. Where is the clown?
Agree.
Pointless, as I’m sure almost all of my reps have never served a day in their lives (I live in Massachusetts). Plus I’m still serving so can’t be openly political. I retire in about a year and a half.
Biden was referring to the Mullah Omar Administration.
Thank you for your service. It galls me to no end to see the sacrifices of the very best our country has to offer go for naught because of the Left.
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