Say Anything Blog

Harry Reid, back in January:

As Speaker Pelosi said, the President’s plan will receive an up-or-down vote in both Chambers of Congress. With that vote, our hope—our prayer—is that this President will finally listen. Listen to the Generals. Listen to the Iraq Study Group. Listen to the American people. And listen to a bipartisan Congress. The answer in Iraq is not to “double down”—literally to do more of the same. The answer is to find a new course that brings this war to an end.

General David Petraeus, the man Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Democrats (plus all the Republicans too) voted to put in charge of military operations in Iraq:

Chris Wallace: General, we have less than a minute left. Let’s get to the bottom line here. Do you feel that we can still win in Iraq, that we can leave behind a stable, democratic government?

Gen. Petraeus: Chris, if I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t be leading the finest of young American men and women who are putting their lives on the line every day. In the last two weeks, I’ve gone to memorial ceremonies, one of which was for four soldiers lost in one unit, another for six soldiers lost in one unit. And I can tell you that as you sit there at that, you obviously reflect on that particular question. And again, I think that there is good prospect for progress in the months ahead, that hopefully can be matched by progress in the political and economic arenas here in Iraq, and again, can give us hope for the way ahead.

The Democrats pleaded with the President to “listen to the Generals.” Now it appears as though he is.

So why aren’t the Democrats practicing what they preach?