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I returned from Iraq grateful for the progress I saw and painfully aware of the difficult problems that remain ahead. But I also returned with a renewed understanding of how important it is that we not abandon Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran, so long as victory there is still possible.
And I conclude from my visit that victory is still possible in Iraq — thanks to the Iraqi majority that desperately wants a better life, and because of the courage, compassion and competence of the extraordinary soldiers and statesmen who are carrying the fight there, starting with Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. The question now is, will we politicians in Washington rise to match their leadership, sacrifices and understanding of what is on the line for us in Iraq–or will we betray them, and along with them, America’s future security?
Given that mere days ago Reid was openly criticizing Petraeus, whom the Democratic Senator from Nevada declared, “isn’t in touch with what’s going on in Baghdad” — this is an astounding turnaround, one that is born of the kind of intellectual honesty we don’t typically see from today’s left-liberal Democratic congresspeople.
So plaudits are due Senator Reid and, by extension, the Democratic Senate leadership for doing the kind of leg work that turned what was a bit of resounding arrogance (presuming to believe he had a better understand of the situation on the ground in Iraq than the US commander in country) into a clear and honest accounting of the situation based on first-hand observations and conversations with soldiers and military leaders.
Kudos.
(h/t Terry Hastings)
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update: Oops. Turns out the piece was written by former Democrat Joe Lieberman — since excommunicated from Democratic circles, in favor of the Ned Lamonts of the world, for his stubborn refusal to go along with the defeatest narrative being pushed by antiwar leftists hoping to mislead their way back into executive control — and not by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as initially reported.
Which means, of course, that Senator Reid remains the same shriveled, opportunistic tool he was a few days ago.
proteinwisdom apologizes for the error.
Which wasn’t so much an error, truth be told, as it was an extended excuse to call Senator Reid a shriveled, opportunistic tool yet again.
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update 2: “cadaverous.” There. Insert that wherever it seems appropriate.
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You had me going for a little bit, but then dashed my hopes. Yet one more lesson on how unfair life can be. You would think I would have learned this lesson by now, but I still try to be positive from time to time. Every week or so.
I can certainly sympathize with that. The impulse is similar to that which compels me to link to this picture of Harry Reid picking his nose.
This is exactly why I popped a few bucks into the pot for you a couple months back.
I didn’t want you to pack it in and quit just when there is so much good material coming our way.
Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Hillary, the ghost of Ned Lamont, Howard Dean and an election year… and you were thinking of taking a break.
Hoy crap, the mother lode is around the corner…
I was against the Generals before I was for them. Oops, that’s right. I am still against them.
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So what actually happened was, Reid did a 360 on Iraq instead of a 180?
At which point his brain displayed the dreaded Red Ring.
Your thoughts expanded:
Senator Reid remains the same shriveled, opportunistic tool he was a few days decades ago…
Hmm, well, just pretend that the "strikethrough" button worked in real life on "days" as it did in my preview!
If it’s pictures of Harry you’d like, feel free to use this one. It’s proud of it, I am.Also, congrats on the WordPress transition – I couldn’t at first tell, and had to "view source," so well done and all that.And speaking only for myself, loth as I am to make predictions – especially about the future – I nonetheless predict you’re going to ditch that "Snap" preview thing, before too long. It’s painful. For the rest of us.
You can disable the snappy thing yourself – the options are on the
top-right of the pop-up. You can turn it off or put a delay on it. Myself, I do not mind the snappy thing. But then, I handle change remarkably well.
Just <a href="http://d21c.com/Media-Mix/Woman-UglyBlon-Ani.gif">who</a>, I’d like to know, would give the cadaverous, shriveled tool an opportunity?
Well, I guess urls don’t work anymore?
I wanna try.
Bank teller?
oh – you mean for your name?
Bank teller jobs are really strict about that background check thing. So, um, no.
I just notice you changed the timestamp from my timezone to yours. That’s ok. My subtraction skillz are almost as good as my change-handling skillz.
Uh, am I just being stupid here, or do all of those comment buttons ‘n’ stuff just not work in Safari?
(I get a pop-up error having something to do with “Mozilla 1.3 beta”, and quite frankly I have no idea what it’s trying to tell me.)
Facts on the ground also compel us
to recognize that Iran is doing everything in its power to drive us out
of Iraq, including providing substantive support, training and
sophisticated explosive devices to insurgents who are murdering
American soldiers. Iran has initiated a deadly military confrontation
with us, from bases in Iran, which we ignore at our peril, and at the
peril of our allies throughout the Middle East.Comments, Mr. Reid? Surely there’s something you’d like to say about that, with you being a definitive authority on the Iraq problem. Inquiring minds want to know…BTW, is there a blockquote thingy and I’m just missing it? Or is there no blockquote thingy?
This just in:
A Washington, DC CSI team has burst into the Senate office building, and drawn a chalk line around Sen. Harry Reid.
Developing.
I immediately sensed a stretching sensation in my leg. Being a skeptical sort.Where I got it wrong was thinking maybe it was from a few years ago.Fairy Harry is too invested in defeat to submit to his conscience now. It would be like the CEO of General Motors sending out a press release saying Ford is an obviously superior product. Very unlikely.
Heard tell that some of the finer mortuary schools keep a big life-sized poster of a naked Harry Reid as a "What Not To Do" guide.
Quothe McGehee:
I think it was more of a 720. Dude owns the half-pipe, too.
OK, I admit that I wuz had for a few moments – well played, Jeff. And I do so eagerly await Senator Reid’s solution to all this. Uh, beyond "run" that is…
Hmm.I wonder how this works. Mark, to do the strikethrough, select the word, then click the strikethrough button.Ooh, we can do color, too. All 16 million colors.
And superscripts and subscripts: H2O, x2 Oh, Harry Reid’s cadaverous presence again fails to show signs of intelligence, cf. Dennis Miller’s rant.
Crap. The smiley and the colors didn’t go through. Neither did the strikethrough or the super and subscripts. And the hard returns didn’t hardly return. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.4.
Well then Dicentra, welcome to my strikethrough free world! :-)
Ned who?
Jeff can do strikethroughs.
I want to do strikethroughs.
batshit
Maybe, what you do, is type out the word you want to strikethrough, and then you highlight it, and you press the strikethrough button, like this. In a minute, I’ll know if that works.
Nope.
Well, I tried my best, and I failed. The lesson? Never try.
I thought that was a crack pipe.
Purple Did it work? Did it work?
Nooooo!
Did this function work?
Strikethrough worked for me yesterday.
But not today. And underline is now gone, too.
Strikethrough
Bold
Italic
Underline
All of the above
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