If this topic already has its own thread I apologize but Harry Reid also lied about the timing of his “the war is lost” statement.
In the debate tonight Reid tried to claim that his statement came before the surge started. That’s a flat-out lie.
Reid made his statement on 4/19/2007. The change is policy was announced by Bush on 1/20/2007, and four of the five Army brigades that were to be committed to Iraq due to the surge had already been deployed by the time Reid made his statement.
The 5th and final brigade to be deployed on account of the surge came less than a month after Harry’s “the war is lost” statement.
Reid’s attempt now to say that he was only commenting on the status of the war prior to the surge and that after he made the statement then they started the surge is pure crap.