Vice President Biden: Iraq “Could Be One of the Great Achievements of This Administration”

Heh, the administration is finally growing a pair. The only thing this administration did for Iraq was not mess up the wind down course the prior one set (finally, at an absurdly excessive cost in lives and treasure). But since they’re being forced to eat the garbage sandwich left by Bush, at least they should be able to claim the trillion dollar shriveled olive to put on top.

Biden was right, it was under Obama that the terrorists were defeated and Iraq was saved.

Laying claim to that, is a bit of a stretch.

Little boy Obama takes credit for things he didn’t do, and blames Bush for things he did do.

The Audacity of Hypocrisy!
Posted by: Ministry of Truth
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Hypocrisy at best…I think it’s appalling. Did he thank Bush for not listening to him? Obama and Biden were both WRONG about the surge.

It’s simple.
Getting out of Iraq will be a great accomplishment. Getting us into Iraq was NOT a great accomplishment.

First of all…Success in Iraq is a great achievement of the United States Military. Period.
Second, the Obama Administration taking the glory for success in Iraq is VILE and NAUSEATING.

Elizabeth Edwards Threatens Husband’s Ex-Aide With Lawsuit
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You’ve got to give the Edwardses credit for being good lawyers, to the end.
How daya think they made the millions!? Sue the pants off ya morons.

Absolutely, and don’t forget that three letter word your whole campaign was about: J O B S”
Sometimes the comedy writes itself…
Posted by: Ryan C | Feb 11, 2010 4:35:00 PM
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You do realize that poster was quoting Biden from the campaign, right? That was just another one of Biden’s jewels.

Success in Iraq is a great achievement of the United States Military.
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I’m not sure how ‘successful’ the people of Iraq feel the United States attack on their country has been. Tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed. Tens of thousands more maimed. I’m sure the Iraqis are down on their knees thanking the United States for that.
Huge sections of the infrastructure of the country were destroyed including the most basic of things like water and sewage. Depleted uranium littered the country and so on.
For years now (since the invasion), the majority of Iraqis have wanted the Americans to withdraw from their country.
As it turns out, Saddam Hussein didn’t come CLOSE to killing or maiming the number of people the American invasion did.
Still, let’s hope for the best.

Liberals claim to support the military but….as always, they lie.

“Liberals claim to support the military but….as always, they lie.”
Which is why Obama increased pay and investment in the VA.
Right wingers just send them off to die in unnecessary wars, dishonor their contracts to serve via stop loss and wish to hide all evidence of the great sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform and their families.
The USO is always looking for volunteers, check them out.

Oh, that Joe!
I’m guessing Joe will be sent to his room for a few weeks for an extended “time-out” to think about what he has done…

“Oh, that Joe!”
A flashback to the campaign!

“Pretty lame, Ryan”
How is that? I guess to right-wingers supporting the military just means spending gigaloads of money on guns, bombs, tanks and aircraft carriers covered with banners the President can land on for photo shoots. Precision guided munitions make for great TV too. The troops? -they’re expendable.

Does he really think we are all stupid? With a 24 hour news availability, fact checking is extremely easy! We all know this administration didn’t do anything that he is claiming.

The Biden-Bamster team is so hard up for a win, they had to take credit for the military’s success under Bush.
What a couple of morons.

The ironic thing is that if this were actually true, it may likely be the ONLY success of the Obama administration.

It’s a simple process. Anything bad happens, Bush’s fault. Anything good happens, Obama’s achievement.

IN MN, BILLBOARD OF GEORGE BUSH READS “MISS ME YET?” TALK ABOUT AN UNDERSTATEMENT!!

If it wasn’t for Bush, we wouldn’t have to leave Iraq. that is totally accurate. Of course, we wouldn’t have gone there in the first place, and would have saved trillions (yes, with a t) of dollars.

“Tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed. Tens of thousands more maimed.”
Whatever happened to hundreds of thousands?

“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”
I wonder if FDR caught the show or if he TIVO’d it.

Stunning arrogance, just shameless. Mr. O should call Mr. Bush and apologize for Mr. Biden’s remarks.

As it turns out, Saddam Hussein didn’t come CLOSE to killing or maiming the number of people the American invasion did.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 11, 2010 4:56:19 PM
Along with other human rights organizations, The Documental Centre for Human Rights in Iraq has compiled documentation on over 600,000 civilian executions in Iraq. Human Rights Watch reports that in one operation alone, the Anfal, Saddam killed 100,000 Kurdish Iraqis. Another 500,000 are estimated to have died in Saddam’s needless war with Iran. Coldly taken as a daily average for the 24 years of Saddam’s reign, these numbers give us a horrifying picture of between 70 and 125 civilian deaths per day for every one of Saddam’s 8,000-odd days in power.
That gives us a range of 600,000-1,000,000 civilians killed during Saddam’s stewardship, with a median average of 97.5 Iraqi civilians killed per day during his reign, or 780,000. Over 24 years, that is a median average of 32,500 Iraqi civilians per year.
This does not include military deaths that occurred during Saddam’s “unnecessary war of choice” with Iran from 1980-88, which which accounts for roughly one million more lives on both sides, nor casualties sustained as a result of his other “unnecessary war of choice” that resulted from his invasion of Kuwait, where an estimated 100,000+ died during the first Gulf War in 1990-91.
Combining the number of civilians killed by Saddam and number of soldiers killed on all sides during his two “unnecessary wars of choice,” and we find a median estimate of 1.88 million killed during his 24-year reign, or 235 people a day.
The Iraq War started on March 20, 2003, and this study ran through June of 2006. In that time, 151,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, or 126.04 per day.
Add in 10,000 estimated terrorist/insurgent/militia dead and roughly 2762 through that time period Coalition military deaths, and you arrive at a rough total of 163762 total violent deaths, or 136.7 total violent deaths per day through June 2006.
235 violent deaths per day over Saddam’s reign including his wars.
137 violent deaths per day in Iraq over the first three years of the present war.

“235 violent deaths per day over Saddam’s reign including his wars.
137 violent deaths per day in Iraq over the first three years of the present war.”
Even if there is consensus on these figures you posted, which I doubt, I find little consolation in the claim that we’re only responsible for a death rate of Iraqi civilians which is half of that of Saddam Hussein.

Skip – no argument with your analogy, but what I am saying is that the “Islamic Terrorists” want us dead and from their point of view, the bigger the bomb the better. IE. take as many of us out as possible. As I said, we could do nothing and it would not cause the “Islamic Terrorists” to be nice to us.

COULD BE ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. THE OBAMA/PELOSI/REID ADMINISTRATON IS THE MOST CORRUPT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

I think that it is interesting that libs – aka progressives and some Dems, not only do not understand the nature of our foreign and domestic enemies, they also do not understand the nature of their political opponents. To label Republicans and conservatives as draft dodging rich, fatcats is an example of denying reality. A sleeping giant indeed has awakened thanks to BO and few can be classified such according to lib text. Dems all falling all over each other to distance themselves from this administration. Obama Waterloo coming in Nov.

I crossed political lines in last years primary to vote for Hillary as I was very much afraid of Obama. And I am no fan of Hillary. My fears have been more than justified. Its too bad that their were not more of us.

It is now clear that Mr. Obama and his administration are taking credit for Mr. Bush’s success and blaming Mr. Bush for Mr. Obama’s failure.

The nation “will long debate Iraq,” Gibbs said. “We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our effort to root out terrorism, particularly in Afghanistan and in that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball. I think historians will debate that long after we are gone.” Gibbs suggested that by invading Iraq the US was “occupy(ing) a country that until we got there didn’t have a single member of Al Qaida,” and taking its eye off the ball.
So that’s a success?

words fail me

Again more nonsense from the Republican right.
Obama holds an 83% approval rating from Democrats.
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A public nod toward approval (adding in the luke-warms & those who didn’t understand the question) doesn’t change the fact that most of this legislation would’ve been called for a vote if they’d known then.
What do WH internal polls say?
What is the rating among Inds?
“”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"” overall?
“”"”"”"”"”" Dem retirement tally in Congress?

“why didn’t all the able bodied young Republicans wait in lines to volunteer to go fight it then? ”
You obviously have had no military service and a naive view of the makeup of our military personnel, or you would know that the military consists of men and women of all political persuasions.

There you go again Joe! He’s pretty brave (or well,) walking through this minefield!!

Obama holds an 83% approval rating from Democrats.
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Too bad he only holds around 36% approval rating from the people that got him elected, the Independents ;p

I just love looking at his bright white teeth. Keep talking Joe.

Posted by: drjohn | Feb 12, 2010 8:47:16 AM
Do you lay Bush’s huge economic failures and the Afghanistan mess at Obama’s feet? yes? And your hypocrisy is lost on you?
LOl. I find it very amusing– and I tend to agree with those who said yesterday that the success is getting the heck out, while the failure was going in.

New York Times/CBS has him at 46%.
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I suppose one could say that’s “around 50%”!

The amateurs in this administrtion can not be embarrassed.

now a 3rd War, in Pakistan!
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There’s no such place. It’s pock-ee-ston.

“I am disappointed they are putting us back in Afghanistan and now a 3rd War, in Pakistan!”
Don’t forget Yemen!

They have to claim SOMETHING even if it is not theirs to claim. Hypocrits.

At this juncture in W’s second 4 year term.. no one knew who Obama was.

Gallup has the President with a 46% approval rating from independents today.
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NYT/CBS has him at 46% overall.

Hey What is the big deal. When you have Obamz blaming Bush for the economy he inherited while he take credit for TARP which was passed under Bush.
IS it surprising that Hairplugs and Gibbsy would take the next step of brazen lying by blaming Bush for the problems in Iraq while taking credt for the surge and Status of FOrces Agreement also brought about by Bush, Cheney and our wonderful troops who were belittled and left to hang by the Democrats from 2006 to 2008.
Yes Hairplugs, it is a great acheivement but one won by our troops and the last administration, you creep.

Fortunately, mostly everyone in Washington, and, increasingly, everyone outside of Washington know that Biden is a blowhard and a pretender. He has a very low IQ and virtually no accomplishment after a lifetime in public office. So this is just one more bit of silliness added to a 40 year record of nonsense and pretension from a politician who is impossible to take seriously. I’d love to see Cheney debate Biden on this; Cheney could be in an iron lung and still humiliate Biden easily. Seriously, he is as empty a suit as you can find in DC, and that is really saying something.

We must forgot the fact that are troops are comming home. I don’t care who wrote the bill I can put my weapon down for the 4th time. Yes I know I’ll pick it back up again. But for now I can hold me babys at home. 2010

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