Posted on 06/17/2007 1:29:58 PM PDT by John Semmens
Despite remarks earlier this year implying that they would take a “wait-and-see” approach and revisit the issue in September, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) released a statement declaring that “the troop surge has failed.”
“As we had feared, the escalation has failed to produce the desired results,” the joint statement read. “The increase in U.S. forces is not fostering political reconciliation. The unity of the insurgent groups has been shaken. Tribal leaders who had been cooperating with al-Qaeda have now turned on their erstwhile allies. The unsettling reality is that instances of violence amongst the contending Muslim factions remain high.”
“In just the past week a group of local residents and Sunni insurgent groups banded together to eject al-Qaeda from a neighborhood,” the statement continued. “This is no way to treat these undocumented immigrants who are merely seeking better lives by doing the jobs Iraqis can’t or won’t do themselves. Reports that both Sunni and Shi’a leaders in Diyala Province, are beginning to work with the US military to eradicate al-Qaeda is a harbinger of a potentially deadly descent into genocide.”
Separately, Senator Reid labeled Senator Joseph Lieberman’s (D-Conn.) perception that progress is being made “a mirage.” “It is our stated position that this war cannot and will not be won,” Reid insisted. “We will not be dissuaded from this position by the professed optimism of renegade senators or incompetent generals.”
Reid is believed to have been referring to Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. “These jarheads do not understand the sensitive political issues surrounding this war,” Reid complained. “They’ve never had to battle for their political lives against a hostile media. They don’t comprehend the kind of risks that I and Speaker Pelosi have to face in our struggle to control this government.”
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Further proof, Harry & Piglousy are in league with AQ! They even admit it publicly!
Reid and Polosi have failed! They should go home immediately!
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