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To: Sully- who wrote (77479)	2/15/2010 7:44:26 AM
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Gibbs doubles down on Biden claim that Iraq is great Obama administration achievement By: John McCormack Weekly Standard 02/12/10 3:19 PM EST Via Andrew Malcom, this is just embarrassing: Q Robert, the Vice President last night said that Iraq could end up being one of the President's great achievements. Given that the Vice President was in favor of a partial partition of the country and the President opposed the surge that helped stabilize it, how is that one of the President's great achievements? MR. GIBBS: Well, putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year. Q But the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the President took office. MR. GIBBS: Something that -- something that I think the political pressure that the President, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about. Look, I think that we will long debate Iraq. We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball. I think historians will debate that long after we're gone. I think they will come likely to the conclusion that no single event took our eye off of what needed to be done in order to -- in order to occupy a country that, until we got there, didn’t have a single member of al Qaeda. So, look, obviously -- look, the Vice President has been deeply involved in fixing the political process there so that elections can be held and so that our troops can come home as scheduled this summer. >>> Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

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