Sen. Reid on Afghanistan: “our timetable is pretty good”

Today on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada spoke in an exclusive interview about the shooting of Afghan civilians by a U.S. service member and the timeline for U.S. troop withdrawal from that country.

REID: Well, of course, our hearts go out to these innocent people. One of our soldiers went into a couple of homes and just killed people at random. Very, very sad, especially following that incident dealing with the Korans, just not a good situation. Our troops are under such tremendous pressure in Afghanistan. It’s a war like no other war we’ve been involved in. But no one can condone or make any suggestion that what he did was right because it was absolutely wrong.

I think that we’re on the right track to get out of Afghanistan just as soon as we can. There’s a way we have stabilized some of the provinces there. There’s conversations going on with Karzai now. We’ve turned over the big prison to them, in the next six months, we’ll turn that over to them. So I think — I think our timetable is pretty good. We’re moving out, as the president said. I think that’s the right thing to do.

A full transcript of the interview may be found here.