Does Bush Deserve Credit for Ending the Iraq War?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Obama made the promise to end the war and he ended it. Who knows when it would have been over if Bush was allowed to be president for another four years. American combat operations would probably still be going on. Obama deserves the credit for this.

I'd argue, however, that Bush deserves much more credit than he asks for when it comes to the death of Osama bin Laden. If my understanding is correct, aggressive interrogations at Gitmo helped yield the necessary information to find bin Laden. Bush set up an extremely strong framework for the process that ultimately saw OBL's death. He deserves some recognition.