Dems aren't really good at rally-round-the-leader, so much, in the way that it is almost knee-jerk for most GOPers, but I'm all for Harry Reid keeping the pressure on, no matter what the WaPo editorial board is mucking up.
Sure, maybe Senator Reid ought not to have used the word "lost" way back then, but did he effectively say anything different than what Newt Gingrich said when he called the second phase of the war a "failure", loudly, stridently, repeatedly?
Here's one date/time, but there are plenty of others:
"If the military, White House, and State Department continue to avoid the word 'failure,' how can you bring about a third stage?" Gingrich said
