People think Harry Reid was wrong about the war

Fox News:

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Republicans (57 percent) are significantly more likely than Democrats (19 percent) to say it is more important to succeed in Iraq than to withdraw.

Views on the future of Iraq are decidedly mixed: About a third of Americans feel the United States can still be successful in Iraq (33 percent), while almost as many think the U.S. is losing, but has not lost the war (31 percent). Just over one in four — 26 percent — believe the U.S. has lost the war.

Democrats (41 percent) are fives times as likely as Republicans (8 percent) to believe the war is lost, and Republicans (57 percent) are nearly four times as likely as Democrats (15 percent) to believe the United States can still be successful.

Overall, by more than two-to-one, Americans see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s recent statement that the Iraq war is lost as unacceptable while U.S. troops are still in the field fighting (65 percent unacceptable, 29 percent acceptable).

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One reason that Democrats do not think it is important to succeed in Iraq is that they see a political advantage in failing in Iraq. They think it will restrain the future use of force. However, the more intelligent approach would be to see that success in defeating an insurgency will mean that those who hate us would be less likely to use that form of warfare. By not defeating the insurgency the Democrats will be condemning us and our allies to future battles by enemies who will use that form of warfare.

It appears that Republicans can find advantage in attack Harry Reid. He certainly deserves it.

Gateway Pundit reports there are demonstrators outside Reid's office already.

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