A good e-mail from a vet politico:

His floor statement yesterday is as bad as his comments to the reporters in the hall. Under Reid on the Senate floor, we need to “change course.” What is that change in course? Bugging out—so under Harry Reid on the floor, we lose by leaving. This is supposed to be contra what he said to reporters, where `everyone knows’ we are losing? While what he said to reporters isn’t justified by some of the facts on the ground–where we are doing better by taking an active role and writing and implementing the strategic and tactical vision after drifting for so long while trying to dial up the Iraqis to be able to do the military jobs they weren’t ready for while we held back–what he said in his floor statement is no better. U.S. used to stand for unconditional surrender—of the bad guys. Under Reid, U.S. stands for unilateral surrender—of the good guys. Thank goodness Reid and Pelosi were never the Commanders in Chief at tough moments in U.S. military history—otherwise, there’d be no U.S. of A. at all today, I’m thinking, and we’d still be bowing to Queen Elizabeth as she visits her Commonwealth possessions here in central-southern North America…