Cillizza's ridiculous assertion will blow back in the face of the GOP!

[RiverStone]

I stumbled upon this OP by Chris (The Fix) Cillizza of the Washington Post. He makes a backwards argument that DEMS are wrong for not dissing Harry Reid for having the guts to call Shrub's war lost. He also assumes that rethugs will march in lock step in support of this administrations already failed war - sadly marching insanely onward into year 5 in Iraq.

Here is a little of it:

Washington Post
4/23/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) loves to make mention of the fact that he is a former boxer who loves political combat.

Will Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comments about Iraq wind up hurting Sen. Mary Landrieu, above, and other vulnerable Democrats up for reelection next year? (AP)But of late he's thrown a few swings that Republican believe missed their marks -- badly.

Reid's comment last week that the war in Iraq was "lost" drew huge media attention. And now the National Republican Senatorial Committee is hoping to make several Democratic senators up for reelection in 2008 answer for their Leader's remarks.

In a new NRSC Web ad the committee takes Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to task for her alleged silence on Reid's comments.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/04/nrsc_war_is_lost.html

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Since Cillizza's lame OP - a few responses (same link as above) say it better then I could - which I'd like to cross post here:

Actually, Reid isn't stating the case strongly enough. I am a parent of (now) two son serving in the military in Iraq. I am, furthermore, in contact with the parents of other children serving there; both liberals and conservatives. Not one. I repeat, NOT ONE, thinks that Iraq is "winnable", NOT ONE thinks that there children would be dying for some good cause, and NOT ONE wants them there for even one more day. A phased or gradual withdrawal is not what we want. We want every last troop home IMMEDIATELY! I just don't understand how these guys don't get it.

Posted by: MikeB | April 23, 2007 03:09 PM

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I am an Iraq war veteran. I have twin sons who are Army officers and both will be deployed to Iraq this summer. One has already served a tour in Iraq, and earned a purple heart when he was shot by a sniper. He is being involuntarily held on active duty under the "stop loss" policy. Thanks to the "surge" he must return to Iraq where he and his brother will serve "15 MONTH" tours. This isn't politics, it's murder. Any person who has been to war understands the waste and the tragedy. For this President, Rove and the GOP pols who have aligned themselves with this administration's open ended war, it's a political game because it's not their kids. This war was lost before the first shot was fired. Get them out now or be turned out in 08!

Posted by: Juan G | April 23, 2007 03:52 PM

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Staff Sgt. Matt St. Pierre, who's been in Iraq for two of the last three years, agrees with Harry Reid. From Greg Sargent:

We've talked at length, my soldiers and myself, and a term that comes up often is, 'this is our generation's Vietnam.' I don't think this can be won. We're caught in the middle of a civil war.... The people that were against us, and they're the majority, they're gonna I believe ultimately win. And that's unfortunate.

St. Pierre recognizes that U.S. forces are the "buffer" in this civil war, and that a withdrawal of American troops will lead that majority who is against us to win. But, as Sargent points out, St. Pierre is echoing what Harry Reid said in recent weeks:

(1) The U.S. can't win the war;
(2) He and his soldier agree after talking "at length" that this is their Vietnam;
(3) The "majority" in Iraq is "against us" right now.

Posted by: | April 23, 2007 03:57 PM

Just a few sane responses from military families that can see the truth, that speak the truth, and know in a very personal and heartfelt way that indeed - THE WAR IS LOST! Blue state AND red state folks will come to realize, that indeed the truth speaks not from a political party; but from the soldiers and families who are serving in the field of battle, risking it all on the front lines, for a war that has already been lost. I know of no greater or more compelling voice then that!


RiverStone~

[Poiuyt]

1. Cillizza fails to notice the Republicans who are trying to distance themselves from Bush's war

[DURHAM D]

2. Oh the 21st Century press - making themselves more

irrelevant by the day.

[TahitiNut]

3. Dubya has NEVER cleaned up his own messes.

He won't start now, either. He leaves messes for others to clean up - and assumes he can fire them when they don't.

[Robbien]

4. Corporate media is trying so hard to make Reid's "We lost" a bad statement

however all of us out here in the peanut gallery are also shouting it out loud and hard. We lost, send our guys back home to us.