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  • Reid pushes back on Iraq optimism ('Surge not working')

    12/03/2007 12:05:57 PM PST · by navyguy · 54 replies · 162+ views
    The Politico ^ | Dec. 3, 2007 | Martin Kady II
    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...