Shameless Iraq claims by administration

Jake Tapper:

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At the briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Biden calling Iraq one of the great potential achievements of the Obama administration given that Biden had previously advocated that the country should be divided into thirds and split among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, and then-Sen. Obama opposing the surge of US troops that many experts argue helped bring stability that allowed the reconciliation process to continue.

In fact, in January 2007 then-Sen. Obama said that he was "not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Gibbs said the achievement was "putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year."

A reporter pointed out that the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the president took office.

Gibbs called that agreement "something I think that the political pressure that the president, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about."

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In opposing the surge, Obama also said he would be willing to accept genocide in Iraq as the price of our exit. For Obama's administration to claim any credit whatsoever for the success in Iraq is a shameless mistaken of facts and an attempt to rewrite history.

The only thing they deserve any credit for is not screwing up what Bush put in place by trying to pull out quicker than scheduled. Of course, that could be because the military told them it was impossible to pull out much quicker anyway.