I have to admit, I missed it until I saw it on Drudge and I am not too surprised I did but today marks the two-year anniversary of Harry Reid, the Democrat leader of the Senate, boldly announcing that the War in Iraq was “lost”.

While the media could not wait to remind us of each and EVERY anniversary of President Bush’s now famous speech standing before a “Mission Accomplished” banner, I don’t know that they are making an enormous deal about this one. Yet it is an important anniversary, a moment in time when every Democrat including our current President was ready to throw in the towel, to give up on an operation that Harry Reid originally voted for but then pulled his support when the going got tuff.

Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything,” Reid, D-Nev., told reporters.

He voted for it, before he voted against it, Reid like so many Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, couldn’t wait to tell Americans the surge would be a failure, that it would end in disaster and sentance Americans to death, to run away from our soldiers on a mission, that right or wrong in its inception, still needed to be completed. When our troops and the Iraqi people needed their support, Obama and Clinton, Biden, Reid and Pelosi walked away. We should never forget that the Democrat Party and their leaders betrayed America and got it wrong on the most important decision made in post-Saddam Iraq.

Were mistakes made prior? Of course, I am the first to criticize Rumsfeld, to point out that we should have gone in with more troops and had a better plan for post-Saddam. Did I personally have doubts about the surge? I was hoping for more troops, more funding and more equipment but with Democrats on their own path toward destruction that wasn’t going to happen. So yes, I was afraid those we sent in would not be enough. All I knew is that we had to do something and luckily President Bush, General Petraeus, John McCain and others at the Defense Department knew what that something was.

Our troops were joined by a little talked about but very important advance in predator drone technology. Marrying this new technology with our brave reinforcements on the ground, the Iraq War was put back on a winning course. My fears could not be quelled because I did not have the same access to information that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others had. They, with security updates and access to Petraeus and others should have known better. Instead they played politics.

Harry Reid should be ashamed as should the Democrat Party for taking the cowardly and politically expediant approach. At the very least we should take stock of a simple reality, that they chose to try and win an election instead of figuring out a way to win a War.