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February 15th, 2010

Joe Biden believes success in Iraq will be one of the greatest achievements in the Obama Administration. With the impending withdrawal of thousands of US troops and a democratic government now instituted in Iraq, it would be a monumental achievement for anyone to lay claim to but should Joe Biden and Mr. Obama lay claim to the 2003 invasion and subsequent war in Iraq?

Joe Biden and Dick Cheney have been exchanging words in the press lately and they haven’t been very diplomatic. On Larry King Live the other night, Biden had this to say about successes in Iraq.

I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Biden went on about some of the things former Vice President Cheney has been saying about the Obama Administration’s course of action on the war on terror,

“Let me choose my words carefully here. Dick Cheney is 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. The Christmas Day bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested the shoe bomber was treated.”

“I don’t think the former Vice President Dick Cheney listens,” Biden said. “The president of the United States said in the State of the Union that we’re at war with al-Qaeda and … we are pursuing that war with a vigor like it’s never been seen before. We have eliminated 12 of their top 20 people. We have taken out a hundred of their associates we …have sent them underground. they are in fact not able to do anything remotely like they were in the past. They are on the run. I don’t know where Dick Cheney has been. It’s one thing to be outspoken. It’s another thing to be outspoken in a way that misrepresents the facts. It’s almost like Dick is trying to rewrite history. I can understand why that would be an impulse and maybe he isn’t, literally — I’m not being facetious — maybe he has not been informed of what’s going on. It’s simply not true that the president of the United States is not prosecuting the war against al-Qaeda with a vigor that’s never been seen before.”

I think it’s funny how Biden can take credit for success in Iraq even though himself and Mr. Obama have fought the Bush administration on almost every single thing that made success possible. It seems Biden is the one attempting to rewrite history.

He now wants to jump on the band wagon when it’s politically expedient so lets take a look at what has been accomplished in Iraq.

With the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the rule of Man has been replaced with the rule of law. With a new constitution, partially written by women, a democratic form of representative government has been installed. This is the most representative form of government the region has ever seen. With record breaking voter registration and turn out, for the first time in history, Iraq has seen three honest and fair elections with virtually no violence. All aspects of their society are represented in their government.

Iraq now has a free economy. Fostering job creation and moving quality of life up on the scale, more people are working and providing for themselves than ever before. 14,000 miles of weed choked canals are now cleared, thanks to coalition sponsored agricultural programs, and over 4,000 previously dry and parched pieces of farm land are now producing product. These programs have put an estimated 15,000 people back to work and has greatly stimulated the agricultural market that represents 7% of Iraqi GDP and the second largest sector over all, behind crude oil production.

Coalition forces and programs have rehabbed thousands of schools and hospitals, raising the availability of primary and higher learning and greatly increased the quality of primary health care. Health care providers and teachers salaries have seen a 10 fold increase. 98% of all Iraqi children have received vaccinations for polio, measles, mumps and rubella and 20 million new textbooks have been shipped in to assist in getting kids back to school and back on the right track to adulthood. Primary school enrollment is 20% higher than before the US led invasion in 2003.

Millions of Iraqi’s who have never had electricity and potable water now take advantage of the billions of dollars invested in new infrastructure. the electricity output to the entire nation is at levels never seen before and the quality of citizens’ lives have been improved across the board.

Iraq is a completely different nation than it was pre-2003. Saddam Hussein was a genocidal madman known for gassing entire villages and towns, killing thousands of people in one swift action, merely for being of a different religion or custom. He HAD to go and that, in my opinion, is what led to the rest of the accomplishments now being claimed by Obama and his ilk. We should have taken care of the situation back in 1992 when we sat four miles from Baghdad and then turned tail and left. I am glad we did go back and I still firmly believe it was the right thing to do for the region and the Iraqi people.

Keep in mind that every item listed above was accomplished far before the 2008 presidential elections in the US. While lobbying tirelessly against the surge, which most notably turned the tide against the insurgency in Iraq, Obama and Biden now want to lay claim to all that the former administration has accomplished. All that the current administration did since the switch of power was adopt the Bush timetable and then reluctantly carbon-copy the surge strategy in Afghanistan.

Millions of Iraqi’s have been liberated from the tyranny of the rule of Men and have been given the just rule of Law. More people are employed and getting an education than ever before. Sanitary conditions for outlying areas have never been better and the quality of health-care for Iraqi’s is at unprecedented levels. They now have the ability as a people to choose their own representation in government and violence at the polls is nearly zero.

War is hell and many people have lost their lives to accomplish this but one only has to tune out the media and actually speak with a returning soldier to hear about how grateful the Iraqi people are for the freedom we have given them with nothing asked in return other than a desire to keep it.

Biden should be ashamed of himself for trying to opportunistically co-opt what has been done in Iraq. Cheney was right when he said,

“If they’re going to take credit for it, fair enough, for what they’ve done while they’re there,” Cheney said. “But it ought to go with a healthy dose of ‘Thank you, George Bush’ upfront and a recognition that some of their early recommendations, with respect to prosecuting that war, were just dead wrong.”

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