US withdrawal from Iraq will be on time: Biden
President Obama called Iraq his predecessor’s war of choice. Now it is his war to exit — and quickly.
The challenge for Obama, whose opposition to the Iraq invasion helped propel him to the presidency, is sticking to his timeline for a U.S. military withdrawal despite a jump in violence…
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