Harry Reid: Wrong!
by Jeff OBryant
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that one Iraqi neighborhood has been taken back from al-Qaida terrorists. But how can that be? Harry Reid has already pronounced that we’ve lost. Guess the US troops fighting in Iraq did not hear Reid- or more likely they decided to ignore the white-flag waving non-leader of the Democrats in the Senate who has no military experience whatsoever.
The article also outlines what it will be like if Read and his fellow quitters in Congress get their way. So let us hope cooler – and wiser - heads prevail.
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May 4th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Harry Reid: Slandered!
While I’m skeptical of how devoted “ultra-conservatives” and Bush loyalists are to the truth, here is Reid’s true position in his own words:
“And more people have to start telling George Bush what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear. I did that. My conscience is clear, because I believe the war, at this stage, can only be won diplomatically, politically, and economically.”
“As long as we follow the President’s path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course and we must change course. No one wants us to succeed in the Middle East more than I do. But there must be a change of course. Our brave men and women overseas have passed every test with flying colors. They have earned our pride and our praise. More important, they deserve a strategy worthy of their sacrifice.”
It is hard for me to understand why a hatchet job is being done on a man who clearly represents the majority opinion among Americans. No one is calling for the white-flag of surrender.
I want to leave you with a quote from a conservative politician of yesteryear, Robert A. Taft, also known as “Mr. Republican,” who said in a speech made as the United States was entering World War II:
“As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government … too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.”