Nevadans None Too Happy with Reid
From an editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Affecting the current funding for the war effort, as Harry Reid is threatening to do, is naive, irresponsible and stupid. It is a shame that Mr. Schumacher and Sen. Reid don't understand.
And even if Sen. Reid were correct in his beliefs, he has an obligation not to undermine the president and the troops. There is a long-standing tradition that our internal disagreements stop at the border; that tradition has served us well. Violating that tradition in a shallow attempt to attack the other party embarrasses Nevada.
There are many ways to convey to the administration an opposite viewpoint without a news conference or threats. The Democrats are supposed to be the loyal opposition. They have the opposition part nailed, but seem to have lost sight of the "loyal."
Sen. Reid doesn't need a pat on the back -- he needs to be replaced. Nevada needs representatives who put their country ahead of their party and their egos.
7 comments:
"Internal disagreements"?
It ceased being an internal disagreement when we preemptively invaded Iraq. It is now the rest of the world against us. Bush doesn't care. Reid does.
If Reid cared he wouldn't be grandstanding and making stupid statements about how the war is lost and that we need a timestable for withdrawal.
It is, and we do. We lost it as soon as we failed to put a political solution in place. We lost it as soon as we protected the oil companies instead of the citizens.
Garrett, I'm not arguing for or against continued involvement in the war...that's a topic for a different post.
What I am supporting is the editorial opinion that you don't say stupid shit like Reid did when we have troops in harms way. Can you imagine if someone in the British parliament said that in 1940 when things looked really bad for the UK?
True leaders are not supposed to say things like that publicly.
Reid is not grandstanding, because the statement is true, not stupid. It does NOT demoralize the troops (see below). That's just an asinine Republican response.
Feel free to read Reid's FULL
statement."
It's not quite the same as the "liberal" media reports.
Here's an interesting story to prove the point about not demoralizing the troops - some soldiers in Iraq know exactly what the score is and see Iraq as their Vietnam: Some U.S. soldiers calling Iraq 'our Vietnam'
I forgot the link to the Soldier Story"
I think what you linked to was Reid's follow up comment, not the original.
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