Dim Harry Proclaims War is Lost

3rd rate senator promotes himself to general

Fox news reports that Harry Reid is clamoring to get attention for himself just as fast as he can wave his spindly little arms. The attention starved senator has chosen to abandon the troops and proclaim defeat as the means to this end. Naturally this has had the effect of attracting every Elite Media Monoculture reporter with a camera within 100 miles of Washington and of emboldening our enemies whilst simultaneously demoralizing our troops on the ground in Iraq who were under the impression that they were actually doing pretty well.

General Reid pushed his way onto the national stage this week with the pronouncement that America is the weakest superpower in history and that it cannot win a fight against a bunch of guys armed only with basic weapons and copies of the Koran. And right on cue every "journalist" who works for a liberal paper is pronouncing this a wise and progressive viewpoint, regardless of the Defeatocrats lack of a plan which does not include impeaching the President.

WASHINGTON — Republicans blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comments that the Iraq war is 'lost,' saying it sends the wrong message to U.S. troops fighting in Iraq.

"What a terrible message for our troops fighting this very minute," Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, said on the House floor Thursday night. "Instead of a roadmap to success, we are being asked to support a plan for defeat. We're being asked to announce to our enemies a date for surrender."

Reid, D-Nev., said Thursday that the war in Iraq is lost and President Bush's plan to send more troops there to respond to sectarian violence won't work.

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq (Wednesday)," Reid said.

Meanwhile, Victor Davis Hanson replies to the tiny senator here.

The reality is, of course, that the Democrats are grandstanding for the benefit of their hard-left-wing party base. The Angry Left cannot stomach George Bush and thus they hate any policy of the administration, even one which is intended to defend the country against enemy attack. The Kos wing of the party wants America defeated in Iraq because it means the defeat of the President and of his party. The left does not care about the long term consequences of defeat; they don't care that it puts the country in danger; they want America out of Iraq now.

If the Democrats in the leadership of the party really believe that the war cannot be won, then the logical course of action is for them to simply pull the funding right now. They have the constitutional authority to do this at any time they wish. And there can be no doubt that if all the Democrats agreed with such a policy, they would have the votes to pass legislation out of the house.

The Democrats are not doing this, however, because they know that there is a stiff political price to pay for such action. The American people do not want to simply give up and go home, even if many of them are troubled by the length and difficulty of this fight. Many certainly wish that it was over, but they also know that simply running away, when we have the means and ability to fight, is bad policy and sends a very bad message to the terrorists and their state supporters. And while it might satisfy the hard left base of the party, they do not have enough votes to assure victory in the next election. For Democrats to win, they must attract the voters in the middle of the political spectrum. But whether they can do so by virtue of out and out surrender to the terrorists is doubtful.

Thus the Democrats play a dangerous game of demoralizing our troops, who they hope will not be able to win and make the President's plan a success, while emboldening the terrorists to greater violence against us, while at the same time hoping that the vast middle does not notice the red meat that they have tossed to their rabid left wing base.