Biden: 'I Got 150,000 Troops Out of Iraq.' WaPo Fact-Checker: 'Um, no.'

Two Pinocchios. That's what Washington Post fact-checker Salvador Rizzo figured Joe Biden's claim was worth, that the former Veep was personally "responsible" for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq.

At last month's Democratic debate you might recall (I drunkblogged two consecutive nights of it and don't recall much), Biden claimed, "I made sure the president turned to me and said, 'Joe, get our combat troops out of Iraq.' I was responsible for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq, and my son was one of them."

I can't be the only one picturing a slightly confused Vice President Biden then picking up the phone and saying, "Hello, U-Haul? This is the Vice President. I need 30,000 moving vans, and... [sees where Iraq is on the map] uh... the Love Boat."

But back to our story.

Last week, Biden was at it again, telling supporters at a campaign stop in Iowa, "When I was vice president, the president gave me all the easy jobs, like 'take care of getting all our troops out of Iraq,' which we did."