Joe Biden is correct, President Obama has managed the withdrawal of USA troops from Iraq. Bush/Cheney NEVER had an exist strategy. Never.

As a matter of fact, it was just the opposite. The Bush White House REFUSED to entertain an exit strategy as it would allow the enemy to 'wait it out.' I don't want to hear it. At least Cheney admits President Obama can recognize we are doing the best thing in Iraq. But, to say the Bush White House deserves credit? I don't see it.

I remind, at the time Bush was demanding inventories from Saddam Hussein and there were no inventories to be found because they degraded in the Iraqi desert; Hussein was being offered asylum to leave Iraq. I am confident if the Arab Nations were given more time, Saddam would have left Iraq and the civilian casualties would never have occurred.

According to the last projection of dead Iraqis it still stands at about 800,000. I doubt the actual number will ever be known. They are buried everywhere.



...Obama opposed the war in 2003 and, as an Illinois senator, the troop increase ordered in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Then-Delaware Sen. Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq but later declared the war against U.S. interests and opposed the troop surge, which he once called “a failure.”...

...“We took our eye off the ball, putting us in a much different and more dangerous position in Afghanistan. We lost support around the world. It's taken a lot of hard work to get it back. But we were handed — we were dealt a hand, and I think we're handling it incredibly well,” Mr. Biden said....