When the going gets tough in Iraq, Obama calls on Biden

President Obama during the 2012 presidential election repeatedly touted his administration’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, proclaiming often before vast crowds that he had successfully ended America’s “longest war.”

“In a world of new threats and new challenges, you can choose leadership that has been tested and proven. Four years ago I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did,” the president repeated at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in 2012.