Cut and run, Harry, cut and run!
Jed Babbin on humanevents.com notes, “The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, believes the war in Iraq is lost. There is nothing about that conclusion that bothers Reid: He is as blasé as he is certain, as resolute in pursuit of defeat as Churchill was in pursuit of victory.” Well said.
Commenting last Thursday, Reid said: “I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.”
Consider that not even all the troops that make up the surge have arrived yet and we are still receiving credible reports that it is indeed accomplishing its initial goals. My question is how dare Reid make so blatant a politically motivated statement when our soldiers lay recovering in hospitals, families and friends who have lost loved ones in the war struggle with their grief, and, above all, our soldiers are still risking their lives. But for what? A war that a former attorney with no military service to his country says is lost? It is a slap in the face to our military and their families to basically claim that the over 3,000 who have already died in Iraq died for nothing.
No comments on how to win – since he thinks the surge is a failure – were forthcoming from the Senator.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:46 am
Answer to your question: It isn’t a “politically motivated statement” at all, but the consensus of the majority of people. Senior military officials such as Gen. William Odom and Gen. Tony McPeak have come to the same conclusion. It is the consensus of the American people who are funding this war to the tune of eight billion dollars per month and who are sacrificing their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters. A Washington Post/ABC News Poll this month showed that the American people feel that we are losing the war in Iraq 53% to 32%. Far from being political, Reid, a democrat, is representing the majority who in the same poll said they trust democrats in Congress over President Bush to better handle the Iraq situation 58% to 33%. This isn’t Bush against the democrats. This is Bush against the very people he was elected to serve!