Harry Reid says the Surge is not Working

 Harry Reid still is trying to hold on to this notion that the surge isn’t working, despite the evidence. We are talking about the man who said, “the surge has failed” before the surge even began, so this isn’t terribly surprising. Maybe he should talk to John Murtha about that. Murtha, after coming back from Iraq, had to grudgingly admit the surge IS working, before he spun it into the Democrats new strategy for defeat, which is that Iraq won’t be winnable because the Iraqi government will fail.

 Even while saying that the surge “has not accomplished its goals,” Harry Reid is forced to admit the surge might be working:

However, Reid acknowledged that the surge might be responsible for reducing the violence in the war-torn country.

 Oh really, you think? Isn’t that what the surge was designed to do? Slow the violence and stop a brewing civil war? That is what I thought sending more troops into a war was supposed to do. It seems to me that if you can stop or slow the enemy from attacking you during a war you are completing a neccessary and fundamental part of warfare. This sounds like success to me.

 Harry Reid, as well as all the other Democrats, is walking a tightrope here, and it may come back to bite them in the end.

He was careful not to give the strategy too much credit and instead blasted Republicans for being “committed to an open-ended war in Iraq.”

 That is the problem moving forward for the Democrats, they have put themselves in a situation where good news on the war is bad news for them. In this article Harry Reid uses the new Democrat talking points of the war cannot be won because Iraq will never be a solvent government. They are now forced to admit that America can win the war, but that Iraq will not be able to handle it after we leave, so we must leave now. 

 In their eyes we must withdraw now because they don’t want to see George Bush be right on the issue of the Iraq war. They would rather lose the war to hand George Bush a loss, than win the war and hand America a victory. So now, when congress comes back from recess, the Democrats will once again start crafting legislation designed at surrendering the war in Iraq.

 I find this horrible.