Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) today announced that he was “confident” that the July drawdown in Afghanistan will be “substantial,” predicting the announcement would be made two weeks from now.
Reid’s comments were made during an interview with PBS Newshour, and he added later in the interview that he had “no inside information” about the drawdown, despite meeting with Gen. David Petraeus just days earlier.
Which leaves open the question of how accurate Sen. Reid’s “confident” prediction is, particularly with outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushing to minimize the drawdown and the Pentagon openly advocating pushing back the drawdown through at least fall of 2012.
This was also only one of Sen. Reid’s predictions, as he also insisted, while defend President Obama’s lack of Congressional authorization in the Libyan War, that the conflict will be “over before you know it anyway.” This claim too appears to fly in the face of the evidence, with British officials saying it could continue through at least the end of the year.
I wouldn't buy a used care from this man even if he was selling his government paid and insured car.
A corrupt Obama lapdog making empty promises — zero credibility.
Ok, which is it? Are you surging or are you leaving?
America was defeated in the Afghan War. The USA is broke, its people are jobless, thousands are returning from the “Muslim wars” with lifelong brain and body injuries, families are broken and devastated and the country is completely in hock and debt to foreigners. The real Afghans won in spite of the Vichy Karzai regime imposed on them by the Americans .
I hope it will be an orderly retreat and withdrawal like Sen. Reid envisages, not like the fleeing from Vietnam that we saw in 1974.