Is a gridlocked federal government (and an uninformed Senate Majority Leader) reason enough to abandon Iraq?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stepped up to the microphone on Thursday to publicly deny that the significant military progress made in Iraq this year has actually taken place at all. “Every place you go you hear about no progress being made in Iraq,” the AP quoted the Nevada Democrat – who has clearly taken great care to avoid going to “every place” where people who actually know something about the reality on the ground in Iraq – as saying. “The government is stalemated today, as it was six months ago, as it was two years ago,” said Reid, whom the AP reported as “warning US soldiers were caught in the middle of a civil war.” “It is not getting better, it is getting worse,” Reid said, as he spoke of the Democrats’ plan to provide an emergency war-funding bill that would require troop withdrawals from Iraq to begin within 30 days and to be complete by December of 2008. Despite the spectacular uninformedness (or dishonesty) on the part of the Senate Majority Leader, the progress made
