New York Times: Leading Democrat in Senate Tells Reporters, ‘This War Is Lost’

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"As Congressional Democrats sought to reconcile their differences and send an Iraq spending bill to the White House, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday that “this war is lost,” a stark assessment that Republicans argued would demoralize American troops fighting in Iraq.

One day after legislative leaders met with President Bush, failing to find common ground, House Democrats signaled their intention to step away from a mandatory deadline to remove troops from Iraq, and to work instead toward a compromise of setting a goal for troops to be withdrawn next year."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/washington/20cong.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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