*"I believe, myself, that this war is lost, and that the surge has not accomplished anything" (Senate Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] on the Iraq War troop surge in April 2007, by December 2008 violence was at a 5-year low.) | *"I believe, myself, that this war is lost, and that the surge has not accomplished anything" (Senate Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] on the Iraq War troop surge in April 2007, by December 2008 violence was at a 5-year low.) |