As reported here, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is "lost," triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops.
Reid said he told President Bush on Wednesday he thought the war could not be won through military force, although he said the U.S. could still pursue political, economic and diplomatic means to make peace.
"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and -- you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows -- (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," said Reid, D-Nev.
Don't you just love it when elected Democrat officials think they're the next incarnation of General George S. Patton? Reid is basing his assessment of the outcome of the war, and the effectiveness (or in his view, the lack thereof) of the surge on one day. One day! Imagine what he would have been saying on Dec. 7th, 1941!
Republicans pounced on the comment as evidence, they said, that Democrats do not support the troops.
"I can't begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear that the Democrat leader of the United States Senate has declared the war is lost," said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Democrats do not support the troops, and have been proving it time after time after time by rushing to declare the surge strategy - which they all clamored for! - "isn't working", so therefore, the "war is lost".
Senator, your "The sky is falling!" Chicken Little act has grown wearisome in the extreme. Stop it, already, will ya? Sheesh!
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The truly unfortunate part of all of this war debate is the American people. "We the People" of the United States have become worse than sheep. The press has been playing us like a fiddle from the word "go", regardless of how ridiculous the premise of the argument of the moment.
Yesterday, (April 26) there were 72 Iraqis killed in sectarian attacks and suicide bombings, and the press says "despite the surge" as if our troops should be able to keep an eye on every Iraqi- all 25 million, to keep them from harm.
Then, the UN releases a 30 page report that says that Iraq is suffering from a breakdown of law and order. 'Ya think?'
What is the mission of the UN, ...really? When did the mission statement start reading "to challenge, obstruct, and delegitimize US efforts wherever they may be in the world"?
And what really kills me is that the American People are wrapped up in who will will on American Idol, and whether or not Anna Nicole Smith's baby-daddy is going to get rich. They don't want to think about the reality of what's going on in Iraq, so they will go with High-Five Harry so they don't have to. If they think that country is in chaos now, just wait till the Democrats and the more weak-kneed Republicans pull our troops out.
There is no logic or any kind of critical reasoning here on the part of the people of the US, our Congress, or the United Nations. The war is being run by the press, and they are all content that it should be so.
I agree with you 100%, Supe.
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