Sen. Reid tells a whopper on why he said “this war is lost”

In politics the truth can get stretched every which way. All stripes of politicians do it to one degree or another.

But now and again a politician comes along and tells a whopper so big it cannot pass. That's what happened this morning in the Q&A between Sen. Harry Reid and Sharron Angle in a front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Asked about his 2007 comment in which he proclaimed "This war is lost" while our soldiers were still in Iraq getting their heads shot at and before the so-called "surge" even had begun, Reid today said that his statement was actually a "successful" ploy to force President Bush to refocus on political reconciliation.

What? Pahleeze! You have to read the whole thing to believe it. It's simply a fantasy explanation for what really happened and for it to be published on the day in which America transitions out of combat in Iraq, well, it simply makes the whole deal all the more icky.

The undeniable fact is Sen. Reid called it wrong on Iraq. He undercut our troops in the process. Bush called it right. The "surge" worked and it (not Sen. Reid's "This war is lost" statement) made today possible. That's the unvarnished truth and no amount of revisionist sophistry will change it.

And, of course, Sen. Reid wasn't the only one to call it wrong on the Iraq "surge". President Barack Obama did the same thing, though he did it in a way that did not undermine the troops like Sen. Reid. The video below is a good reminder of who was right in the war ... and who was wrong.