Just this past week
Joe Biden incredibly gave Barack Obama and himself credit for the way things have turned out in Iraq.
The statement claiming credit for the ultimately favorable outcome in Iraq was striking to many. This is because:
a) Obama had opposed the war from the beginning,
b) both Obama and Biden opposed the U.S. troop surge of 2007 by President George W. Bush widely credited with producing the relative peace and stability to enable a U.S. exit,
c) both Obama and Biden predicted incorrectly that the troop surge would actually worsen sectarian strife there.
d) Biden even proposed partitioning the country into separate areas, and
e) the status of forces agreement with Iraq that established the ongoing U.S. troop withdrawal was negotiated by the preceding Republican administration long before Obama took the oath of office twice.
Other than that, however, the Obama-Biden team would seem to deserve all the credit. Perhaps former Vice President Dick Cheney will have something to say about his successor's claim during an appearance this Sunday morning on ABC's "This Week."
With that in mind, Biden should be the last person on earth accusing others of
rewriting history.
“Let me choose my words carefully here,” Biden said in an interview taped Saturday night from Vancouver. “Dick Cheney's a fine fellow. He's entitled to his own opinion. He's not entitled to rewrite history. He's not entitled to his own facts.”
I guess only Biden is entitled to his own facts and the rewriting of history.
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