It’s actually a pretty interesting interview. If you’re cautious about watching (it’s with Stephen Colbert), don’t worry too much. The show was about our troops and the entire audience was filled with American servicemen. Partisan politics is largely avoided.

If you don’t want to watch at all, here are the money bits:

Speaking to Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, who conducted a rare serious interview with the vice president, Biden was asked what he would say to Bush as the United States meets a preliminary deadline set by President Obama in 2009 for the withdrawal of combat troops this week.

“Mr. President, thank you,” said Biden, addressing a hypothetical Bush. “I’ve known you for all eight years of your presidency, and I’ve never known a time when you didn’t care.”

Asked whether Bush deserves credit for the end of combat operations, Biden said earnestly, “You deserve a lot of credit.”

Despite expressing optimism over the end of the Iraq combat mission, Biden rebuffed a suggestion by Colbert that the U.S. had “won” the seven-year-long Iraq war, stressing, “We haven’t said we’ve won it. There are 50,000 troops still there, and until we keep President Bush’s commitment to get the guys out by next year, we haven’t won it.”

Notice that last bit. Which commitment is Biden talking about? American troops are being withdrawn now because Bush signed a Status of Forces Agreement in December 2008, which required the withdrawal of American troops from cities by June 2009 (fulfilled) and all combat troops from the country by the end of 2011.