Monday, January 05, 2009

Harry Reid Saved the Iraq War   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The Senate Majority Leader certainly has audacity. This is from Meet the Press yesterday: 

MR. GREGORY: Let me ask you about the war in Iraq.  In April of 2007, this is what you said: "I believe myself that ... this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything." Were you wrong?

SEN. REID: David, I first met General David Petraeus in Iraq.  He was training the Iraqi forces at that time.  At that time, he knew it wasn't working.  After he became the commander in Iraq, he and I sat down and talked. He said to me, and he said within the sound of everyone's voice, "The war cannot be won militarily." I said it differently than he did.  But it needed a change in direction.  Petraeus brought that about.  He brought it about—the surge helped, of course it helped.  But in addition to that, the urging of me and other people in Congress and the country dictated a change, and that took place.  So...

01/05 10:03 AMShare