Biden says Iraq war was mishandled from the outset and wasn’t worth the ‘horrible price’
By APSunday, February 14, 2010
Biden says Iraq war wasn’t worth ‘horrible price’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says the Iraq war hasn’t been worth its “horrible price.”
He says the war was mishandled from the outset and that the U.S. took its eye off the ball. As a result, he says the U.S. was left in a more dangerous position in Afghanistan, where al-Qaida hatched the Sept 11 attacks.
Biden tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the war also has cost the United States support from other nations.
Still, Biden predicts Iraq will have successful parliamentary elections next month and he says the U.S. is likely to bring home some 90,000 combat troops by the end of the summer.
More than 4,370 U.S. military personnel have died in Iraq since former President George W. Bush ordered the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been wounded or killed.
