State Dept.: Joe Biden Was the One ‘Running Point on Iraq’

Jen Psaki appeared to be blaming the vice president for the current ISIS debacle

US State Dept.: Iraq Debacle was Biden’s 'Portfolio' (Israel National News)

At the daily State Department briefing on Friday, the blame-game over theObama policy catastrophes of Iraq and Syria seems to have gone super-nova, when Jen Psaki, the State Department Spokesperson, appeared to insulate President Barack Obama, and directly indict Vice President Joe Biden over the debacle, by claiming the 2009-2011 Iraq total withdrawal “was the Vice President’s portfolio.”

In a peppery questioning of Spokesperson Psaki by a reporter, the reporter constantly interjected “So it’s his [Biden’s] fault,” and Psaki didn’t reject the accusation out-of-hand. Instead, Psaki pointedly let the accusation go virtually unchallenged while she finished her response.

While she eventually halfheartedly denied Iraq was Biden’s “fault,” Psaki immediately pointedly re-emphasized that, “I was saying, actually making the point – and it’s well known – that the Vice President had this [the Iraqi]portfolio . . . that we elevated it [the Iraqi portfolio] to the Vice President. That was who was running point on Iraq."

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