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Vice President Joe Biden says in the same breath that free Iraq is now able to survive on its own, but that "we're not claiming victory."

Of course not. If the Obama administration admitted the obvious- that we won the war in Iraq that its head proclaimed so loudly and so long was unwinnable- it would have to give the credit to the Bush administration. The current one- and Mr. Obama in particular- having done everything possible to prevent it, the corollary would be that both Mr. Obama and most of his party were wrong about an issue concerning which they are emotionally incapable of admitting error.

Surely, though, this represents a new low in partisanship: an administration refusing to admit that the United States has won a war because to do so would cast its predecessor in a favorable light.

HT: Drudge