[LdSentinal]

While the persistent effort of American troops has contributed to a decline in violence, the death toll has dropped primarily because there are fewer Iraqis left to kill.

Liberals are frigging retarded.

[JaguarXKE]

While the persistent effort of American troops has contributed to a decline in violence, the death toll has dropped primarily because there are fewer Iraqis left to kill.

Without a doubt one of the most ignorant, if not THE most ignorant, line of drivel I've ever read.

[paudio]

the death toll has dropped primarily because there are fewer Iraqis left to kill.

LOL... this is probably the lamest argument I've ever heard...

[Moonman62]

Liberals are frigging retarded.

And hippies smell. That's all I could think about while reading the article.

[RobbyS]

Well, the Iraqis are not so deluded. They is why they are quickly returning to the country.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Harry Reid: Incompetence

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Said the man who Hot Air reminds us, vowed in April not to believe any reports of progress.

Democrats are increasingly bailing on their previously held view that the troop surge in Iraq has been a “failure,” but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t ready to jump on the bandwagon with other Democrats who say the surge has worked.

The Senate re-opened for business on Monday after a two-week Thanksgiving break, during which key Democrats traveled to Iraq and declared that the surge is working, at least from a security and military perspective. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), one the top war critics, stunned fellow Democrats late last week with his statement that “the surge is working,” even though he added that political reconciliation has been lagging. Murtha’s view was backed by Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), who also said the surge worked after he returned from Iraq.

But Reid, in a Monday press conference, ceded no ground.

“The surge hasn’t accomplished its goals,” Reid said. “… We’re involved, still, in an intractable civil war.”

Reid’s comments show that Democratic leaders in Washington may not be on the same page as their rank-and-file members when it comes to interpreting results on the ground in Iraq.