http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=261960647937754 [rquoter]D For Defeatism By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 4:20 PM PT Party Of Retreat: The Senate's top Democrat has announced to terrorists a U.S. surrender in Iraq. Considering our new strategy's documented successes, Harry Reid's determination to lose is practically treasonous. In a week that saw the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and a Senate committee subject the attorney general to a modern-day Salem witch trial, the Senate majority leader managed to say something that made headlines: "This war is lost," the Nevada Democrat told reporters Thursday, "and this surge is not accomplishing anything." Reid: Speaking of resignations... Reid: Speaking of resignations... That's odd. According to the Pentagon, the influx of tens of thousands of troops, accompanied by a new strategy focused on counterinsurgency, and led by a new commander, Gen. David Petraeus, is accomplishing plenty. Over the past six weeks, as the Baghdad security plan has been implemented, attacks on civilians in the city have been cut roughly in half. Civilian casualties are down almost a quarter nationwide, with attacks on civilians off 17%. Only in north-central Iraq did violence grow. But leave it to Reid to look on the dark side — just as terrorists want all of us to do — and gloat about this month's al-Qaida suicide bombing in Baghdad's Green Zone and the car bombs slaughtering over 100 innocents last week. Al-Mada, considered the most professional of Iraq's newspapers, last week said "we have to be happy about" the new U.S. security plan in Baghdad because "It is not easy anymore to place bombs in cafes, markets, near the universities and even in the hospitals." The paper pointed out that "scores of al-Qaida chiefs have been arrested," fleeing families have returned and mosques reopened. "And," the newspaper added, "it especially made the (Iraqi) politicians understand that they should not expect a failure of the present government to boost their own careers." A U.S. Army dispatch last week from the eastern city of Baqouba provided a localized example of the progress. "We've pushed al-Qaida out of here," wrote Sgt. Matthew Benzshawel after a three-day clearing operation earlier this month in the Buhriz neighborhood, an al-Qaida stronghold. Forces detained a dozen terrorists and destroyed more than 20 weapons cache. We suppose Reid would consider Benzshawel a propagandist for the Bush White House, along with all the sergeant's brave fellow soldiers committed to winning this war — who can and will win if they have the tools, leadership and moral support they deserve. Reid has instead given moral support to the terrorists. His "leadership" has been to try to cut off our forces' war funding. Now he has told the Islamofascists that victory is theirs if they can just keep blowing up U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens a little while longer. In aiding and comforting the enemy in wartime, Reid has betrayed the office he holds, shamed the Nevadans he represents and made the Democratic Party he leads synonymous with surrender. There is one way he can repair the damage he's done to the nation: step down. [/rquoter]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTIyZjA3YmMxZmE5MTRiNDQzYzc2YTNjNzAyNjllYzg= [rquoter]LIASSON: I just think that the dirty little secret of this is that there are no good options in Iraq, and any Democrat who is president right now would be faced with the mess that Iraq is right now and not be able to just pull us out. KRISTOL: If [Senator Reid] believes it is lost, he has an absolute responsibility to cut off that funding and bring those troops home as soon as possible — three months, six months, maybe, not 15 months, which is the appropriations bill that he just supported with this gradual withdrawal. I really think it's a disgrace. And Trent Lott, who was Senate majority leader in December 2002, was forced to resign by a rebellion within his own party because he had praised Strom Thurmond at a 100th birthday dinner for him. [Lott] had made it seem that the country would have been better off if we had followed segregationist policies back 40 years ago. What Harry Reid said is much more disgraceful than anything Trent Lott said. And I do think Democrats should ask Harry Reid step down.[/rquoter]
Yet, Halliburton and Cheney's no bid contracts to his Company dont deserve to resign. Illegal Wire tapping Ousting of Undercover agents. Forged Documents about Yellow cake and Niger. Are not reasons to resign?
