Digging Deeper
“Lost” Harry Reid, on what he’ll say if Petraeus doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear: “I don’t believe him.”
Reid wants Petraeus to have said what he wanted to hear: “We can’t win this militarily. He said that.”
More or less true. Mainly less.
What Petraeus actually said: “There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq. Military action is necessary to help improve security … but it is not sufficient.”*
What Petraeus did not say that Reid wishes he did: “Pull out now!”
* Petraeus went on to say, back in early March, that political progress would require talking with “some of those who have felt the new Iraq did not have a place for them.” Much like what is now happening with Sunni tribal chiefs in Anbar and Diyala, while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki distances himself from his Shiite death squad pals.
Reid can’t be blamed if he only reads the headlines. Senators are very busy. Doing what, I don’t know. Hard at work on this Democratic plan for success, I guess, or maybe busy with this Democratic plan for what they’re going to do after Bush vetoes their plan for failure.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:55 am on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
6 Responses to “Digging Deeper”
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April 25th, 2007 at 11:42 am
They are still working on that first 100 hours, right?
April 25th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I think Dingy Harry needs to go back to high school and learn about necessary and sufficient conditions.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
When dozens and dozens (maybe hundreds, I don’t know) of people write in to say that Harry Reid is a pompous, ignorant, opportunistic, enemy-aiding vote whore and venal old fool, he probably doesn’t believe that either. Doesn’t make it any less true.
April 25th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Rebecca, just call Reid a scummy traitor. That saves pixels.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Harry Reid is the living embodiment of the Peter Principle. Calling him a leader is like declaring one of Saddam’s doubles emperor of Iraq. The real power in the Senate wants a sock puppet, not somebody they have to explain very often.
Harry just thought he was repeating the talking points, and now he’s getting grief. No wonder he’s cranky and insisting on his own set of facts.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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