WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday “we’re not claiming victory” in Iraq, but he believes the emerging government in Baghdad is capable of defending itself.
Interviewed on NBC’s “Today” show from Iraq, Biden was asked about the impact of the U.S. combat troop withdrawal, likely to be complete within weeks. He replied, “This is no rush.”
Biden added that in the three years of the Obama administration, “We’ve done this in a way that nobody thought could be done.”
The vice president said there is no validity now to “the idea that there is sufficient capacity to bring down this government, to fundamentally alter this democratic process that is under way.”
“We’re not claiming victory,” he said. “What we’re claiming here is we’ve done our job the administration said it would do. To end a war we did not start, to end it in a responsible way … and to leave in place the prospect of a trained military, a trained security force under democratic institutions where the disparate parties for the first time are actually working together.”
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Of course not, that would mean you supported removing a dictator that was slaughtering his people. Oh was that the Libya excuse to, interesting, 20,000 Libyans were threaten to be slaughtered by Qaddafi so we had to intervene, by 100's of thousand Iraqis was a lie and the 17 UN resolutions was to many and just one on Libya was the right number. I am having problems understand the logic of the administration.
Barry lied and the Arab Spring is becoming a Nuclear Winter. Watch as Victor love to say.
This joker belongs on late night TV.. I wonder if he has ever held a real job where his job performance would determine his advancement and career growth..
We don't have to worry about "Say it ain't Joe" anyway. Hillary will be switched because Joe will take a dive. US News and world report is floating that again.
Barry lied and the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over the middle east. Iran is going to get the BOMB and Barry does not really care.
It is bewildering why this Administration cannot ever say anything good about our Military and its accomplishments. It's as if they are afraid someone is going to attack them for the words, such as Iran or some other country.