Posted on 04/24/2007 3:33:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
Capitol Hill Washington, D.C.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I'm up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think needs to be made.
I thought his speech yesterday was unfortunate, that his comments were uninformed and misleading. Senator Reid has taken many positions on Iraq. He has threatened that if the President vetoes the current pending supplemental legislation, that he will send up Senator Russ Feingold's bill to de-fund Iraq operations altogether.
Yet only last November, Senator Reid said there would be no cutoff of funds for the military in Iraq. So in less than six months' time, Senator Reid has gone from pledging full funding for the military, then full funding but with conditions, and then a cutoff of funding -- three positions in five months on the most important foreign policy question facing the nation and our troops.
Yesterday, Senator Reid said the troop surge was against the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. That is plainly false. The Iraq Study Group report was explicitly favorable toward a troop surge to secure Baghdad. Senator Reid said there should be a regional conference on Iraq. Apparently, he doesn't know that there is going to be one next week. Senator Reid said he doesn't have real substantive meetings with the President. Yet immediately following last week's meeting at the White House, he said, "It was a good exchange; everyone voiced their considered opinion about the war in Iraq."
What's most troubling about Senator Reid's comments yesterday is his defeatism. Indeed, last week, he said the war is already lost. And the timetable legislation that he is now pursuing would guarantee defeat.
Maybe it's a political calculation. Some Democratic leaders seem to believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good politics. Senator Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring his party more seats in the next election. It is cynical to declare that the war is lost because you believe it gives you political advantage. Leaders should make decisions based on the security interests of our country, not on the interests of their political party.
Thank you.
Bloody Reid, Dem terrorist sympathizer.
AMEN and Ping!
The Democrat Party is demonstrating it is the Party of Treason: Its Speaker capitulates in Damascus; its Majority Leader bleats defeat in DC.
Would that our president would take a page from Lincoln's jailing of "peace" Democrats [as cited by the Great One Mark Levin] and simply detain this fifth column for the duration.
I would have liked it better if Cheney had gone back to using four-letter words.
Good for Vice President Cheney, he really lit Reid’s and other dems fires.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President!
It’s good to see that after giving Democrats a lot of political rope, that the GOP sheriff is beginning to build the gallows.
Harry Reid: “Thank you sir! May I have another!”
Fred Barnes on Brit’s panel just raised a good point. He spoke with Sen Graham (I think) today who said: Someone should ask Sen. Reid if we lost the war...who has won?
I heard that. We know the answer.
I hope Cheny crucifies them both, in public.
Reid is a whining little soiled daiphered cry baby.
If he can take million dollar bribes, he is capable of total dishonesty.
Not as strong a statement as Dana Peroni’s yesterday, but it’s a small step in the right direction. He should have brought his shotgun.
Bip.
separated at birth???
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