Webloggin » Senator Harry Reid: Defeatist And Storyteller

Harry Reid is trying to play both sides of the coin in the Democrat Cut and Run strategy that is designed to guarantee defeat in Iraq. In addition to being a mouthpiece for terrorist propaganda Mr. Reid tells a real whopper in attempting to explain how his words about defeat and surrender translates to supporting the troops.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman rebuked Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Friday, saying he strongly disagreed with Reid’s assessment that the Iraq war is “lost.”

“This is exactly the wrong time to question our strategy in Iraq,” said Lieberman, “or that our new strategy has failed.”

Reid Thursday triggered an avalanche of Republican protest when he said 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…”

Friday, after Lieberman made his remarks, Reid struck again.

“The longer we continue down the President’s path,” the majority leader told colleagues in a Senate floor speech, “the further we will be from success.”

He also pointed out that Democrats generally agree with him.

“In an effort to shift attention from this Administration’s failed polities – and I say that in the plural – the President and his allies have repeatedly questioned whether I and my fellow Democrats support our troops,” the majority leader told fellow senators. “No one wants us to succeed in Iraq more than the Democrats. We’ve proven that time and time again since this war started more than four years ago. We take a back seat to no one in supporting our troops, and we will never abandon our troops in a time of war. (src. The Hartford Courant, h/t Michelle Malkin)

Just once I would like to see someone in the press ask Harry Reid to give examples of such support. Democrats have never supported the mission, shot down the surge before it even began and have repeatedly shown the wisdom of hindsight when pointing out failures; just the kind of support our troops don’t need.

Update: Dan Riehl worded my sentiments very nicely in a post called “Our Dark Hours“:

As optimistic as I tend to always be when it comes to America, I can’t help but think that we are now facing some of the darkest hours we have known since the Civil War and the founding revolution itself. More dark even than 9/11, by far.

When I think that during a time of war we have a feckless traitor like Senator Harry Reid leading the Senate, the America I’ve known and have valued since my days as a young boy just can’t seem the same, somehow. Make no mistake, during their day, had the Founding Fathers been saddled with an alleged leader like a Harry Reid, I suspect they would have tried and convicted him of treason before dragging him out behind some courthouse to stretch his treacherous neck.

Then there’s Pelosi, a clueless, moneyed quisling unqualified to hold any position in Federal Government, but elected time and time again by a bunch of mostly anti-American losers out in San Fran. And Murtha? What a useless tub of stupefied lard is that unintelligent un-indicted ABSCAM co-conspirator.

My God - and these people, idiots mostly, and traitors all are part of our leadership today? What a sad, sad joke this country’s politics have become.

Read all of Dan’s post here.

Michelle Malkin posted a good political caricature of Reid, Feingold, Pelosi and Murtha raising the white flag.

Doug Ross compares the military tactics of information warfare to the tactics of Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media. Not surprisingly they are sadly similar and Ross uses examples to prove his point.