<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/97899b03-8e3b-4497-946a-4847ee6b2769/1628BFAE-8A00-4885-828C-8E8DBE84CCCA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://marccooper.com/losing-iraq/" href="http://marccooper.com/losing-iraq/" style="font-size: 11px;">marccooper.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://marccooper.com/losing-iraq/"><P>That the war in Iraq is now <A href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/20/america/NA-GEN-US-Iraq.php">"lost"</A> is perhaps the most authentic thing to date that Reid has said about that conflagration. It's at least 1/3 of what the Dems ought to be simply saying about the war i.e. that it was wrong from the beginning, that there is no way to win, and now it is time to leave. Period.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://marccooper.com/losing-iraq/"><P>As we talk ourselves to death over Imus and Cho, we have mostly overlooked the fact that Wednesday was the bloodiest record:<A href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3055750"> 230 people murdered or found dead</A> in 24 hours.  That's more than seven Virginia Tech massacres in a single day. And that's without counting the equal number of wounded.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://marccooper.com/losing-iraq/"><P>So much for the U.S.-backed "surge and security" plan.  We temporarily reel in the Shiite death squads embedded in the police and the Sunni respond with terrorist car bombings of civilians. Delusional, my friends.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1628BFAE-8A00-4885-828C-8E8DBE84CCCA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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