Harry's War Democrats are taking ownership of a defeat in Iraq.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT


We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, April 12.

Gen. David Petraeus is in Washington this week, where on Monday he briefed President Bush on the progress of the new military strategy in Iraq. Today he will give similar briefings on Capitol Hill, but maybe he should save his breath. As fellow four-star Harry Reid recently informed America, the war Gen. Petraeus is fighting and trying to win is already "lost."

Mr. Reid has since tried to "clarify" that remark, and in a speech Monday he laid out his own strategy for Iraq. But perhaps we ought to be grateful for his earlier candor in laying out the strategic judgment--and nakedly political rationale--that underlies the latest Congressional bid to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq starting this fall. By doing so, he and the Democrats are taking ownership of whatever ugly outcome follows a U.S. defeat in Iraq.





This isn't to say that the Administration hasn't made its share of major blunders in this war. But at least Mr. Bush and his commanders are now trying to make up for these mistakes with a strategy to put Prime Minister Maliki's government on a stronger footing, secure Baghdad and the Sunni provinces against al Qaeda and allow for an eventual, honorable, U.S. withdrawal. That's more than can be said for Mr. Reid and the Democratic left, who are making the job for our troops more difficult by undermining U.S. morale and Iraqi confidence in American support.


http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009986

But becasue we need to know about this new stratagy to discredit the dems in congress.

What a surprise. Not.

>>secure Baghdad and the Sunni provinces against al Qaeda<<

I guess we're supposed to just ignore the fact that al-Qaeda is Sunni. :shrug:

:rofl:

What a bunch of lying chickenhawk asses...

leaders failure on the Democrats. Who knew this was coming? :sarcasm:

that is undermining U.S. morale and Iraqi confidence, and not Dems' trying to end the war. The WSJ is just following the RW talking points--"Mistakes were made, but we must carry on with our noble cause". Fold it up and put it under your cockatiel.

Which is, admittedly, a stretch for folks who write for the editorial page of the Wall Street Urinal. Reid said the war is lost if the United States stays on the same disastrous path Bush has laid out. It was a conditional, not an absolute statement. There is still time and there are still ways to bring about a more orderly Iraqi society, but the Bush administration "whack-a-mole" strategy is not it.

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

Everyone now agrees it was a mistake to occupy Iraq in the first place. Everyone agrees that this administration's mismangement made that mistake even worse. And now they want *us* to take ownership of their screwups.

Fine. The Conservatives win. It's all our fault that a Iraq is a mess and has been since the beginning. We take the blame. You no longer have to keep bleeding our military just to make the Republican party look tough. Just bring our troops home, and tell everyone it's our fault it didn't work. We will happily accept the blame if that is what it takes to get you to finally do the right thing, the smart thing, the decent thing.

Then we'll let the voters decide next election which party they trust and respect.