From The Progressive
By Matthew Rothschild

The leadership of the Democratic Party is nowhere–nowhere on the Iraq War.

Look no further than Sunday’s This Week program, where Harry Reid was asked about the latest crazy idea from Bush and company: the surge –throwing 20,000 or more additional U.S. troops into Baghdad.

Reid, who came to power as Majority Leader in the Senate on the gusts of anti-war sentiment, amazingly is on board with Bush now.

If the commanders on the ground said this is just for a short period of time, we’ll go along with that, Reid said.

Go along?

Come on, Harry, get with it.

Sending more troops to Baghdad is only going to result in more U.S. soldiers dying.

It’s only prolonging the inevitable, which is that we’ve got to pull our troops out of there, not keep sending more in.

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