Top Senate Democrat to Bush: Iraq war is lost

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Source: Reuters

Top Senate Democrat to Bush: Iraq war is lost

By Susan Cornwell
1 hour, 14 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on
Thursday he told President George W. Bush the Iraq war was lost and the
recent U.S. troop increase had accomplished nothing.

Reid, the Senate's top Democrat, described part of a meeting with Bush at the
White House on Wednesday -- the same day bombs killed almost 200 people in
Baghdad in the worst day of violence since a U.S.-backed security crackdown
was launched there earlier this year.

"This is the message I took to the president," Reid said at a news conference.

"Now I believe myself ... that this war is lost, and that the surge is not
accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,"
said Reid, of Nevada.

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[tabasco]

1. There was never any clear military objective.

Our troops were placed into a bloody meat grinder quagmire with no hope of victory.

The Iraq war was a profiteering scam and that's all it ever was.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. If there was an objective, it was to only boost Bush's ratings

If.......