Dick Cheney has cried foul this week regarding Joe Biden’s comments that the turn of events in Iraq could be “one of President Barack Obama’s greatest achievements.”  According to Cheney, not enough proper credit is being given to former President Bush and his initial insight into the situation.

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Story from AP (Courtesy of Yahoo! News):

“If they’re going to take credit for it, fair enough, for what they’ve done while they’re there,” Cheney said Sunday. “But it ought to go with a healthy dose of ‘thank you, George Bush’ up front and a recognition that some of their early recommendations, with respect to prosecuting that war, were just dead wrong.

Asked about Biden’s comments, former Vice President Cheney said, “If they had had their way, if we’d followed the policies they’d pursued from the outset or advocated from the outset, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Baghdad today.”

Biden, appearing on Sunday news shows, said he believes Obama has managed the war in Iraq “very well” since taking office a year ago. He said, however, that he doesn’t believe the war was worth the “horrible price” in lives lost and the initial mismanagement of the war by Bush.

Cheney is partially right, except for the fact that Bush sold the war on the premise of WMD’s, which was never validated.  Meanwhile Obama sold the new efforts on the idea of “damage control.”  Whether Bush ends up being right on this, I’m not sure but I hope he was.  But how you frame the argument makes all the difference.  Voters deserve to have the initial reason for doing something match up with the end result.