Giving Harry Hell

The odious and loathsome Harry Reid has declared defeat and is ready to surrender. It's astonishing that even if he believes what he's saying that he would give such a propaganda victory to our enemies.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday declared the United States had lost the war in Iraq, a conclusion he said he communicated to President Bush at a meeting Wednesday.

"This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, said at a Capitol Hill press conference with anti-war state legislators.

Mr. Reid said that both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates agree with his position, though neither has ever declared defeat.

"You have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows," said Mr. Reid, who left the press conference without fielding follow-up questions.

The New York Post calls it Harry Reid's White Flag in a withering editorial, while his cohort in cowardice, the Damascus Diva, gets worked over in the Washington Times.

Elsewhere, Austin Bay works Reid over and Michelle Malkin is being deluged with letters of outrage from the troops.