Those were the days, weren’t they?  Back when Harry Reid was all “listen to the generals?”

Of course, now Reid and his fellow Democrats are busy trying to force a withdrawal from Iraq through Congress despite a) the strategy of General Petraeus (who they voted unanimously to appoint) only having been implemented for a couple of weeks and b) Petraeus saying that his strategy is making headway and that we should wait until his September report to Congress before doing any major policy changes.

So so much for listening to the generals, right?  To hell with the generals.  There’s a political war to win.

Update: More generals for Reid to ignore, in the person of General Pace of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations:

General Peter Pace, the outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs, has called the surge a success, saying that it has brought about a “sea change” in security for Iraq. Time Magazine reports on his remarks from Ramadi, which in itself demonstrates a level of success, as the Anbar Province has changed markedly from the lost cause it appeared a year ago . . . . [Meanwhile] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned the US about conducting a precipitate withdrawal from Iraq.