Will Republicans call this soldier defeatist?

A lot of fuss has been made over the last week about Harry Reid's opinion that the Iraq war is unwinnable from a military standpoint.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Reid for saying that:

"I can't begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear   that the Democrat leader of the United States Senate has declared the war is lost," said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Actually, let's put this question to a soldier now serving in Iraq: is the war winnable?  According to this soldier, who was interviewed by CNN International, the war is a lost cause:

MATT PIERRE: ..this is our generation's Vietnam.  I don't think this can be won.  We're caught in the middle of a civil war.

Yes, sometimes the truth hurts.  Truth is also reality.  Are we better off living in the real world of facts and logical analysis, or should ideology trump all of that?  Over the last six years, we've grown accustomed to an Administration that embraces the latter, and discards the former.  Look at where we are now.

Although he might have been rather slow in developing a firm stance on the war, maybe Harry Reid is doing a service to the country by taking the 'non' out of 'sense', and speaking the truth about the war even though it might offend some people.