President Obama addresses troops at Fort Bragg to mark the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. AAP Joe Biden apparently wants to claim credit for withdrawing 150,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq blame for President Obama's withdrawal from Iraq and failure to renegotiate SoFA. WaPo factcheck's Biden's claim for blame- er....credit: ÂI made sure the president turned to me and said, ÂJoe, 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. Former vice president Joe Biden, at a Democratic presidential candidate debate, Miami, June...