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Posted on 07/12/2007 3:33:52 PM PDT by RDTF
From today's press conference with the Senate Democratic leaders.
I tried to get an answer to what I blogged earlier today.
I did not succeed.
-snip-
TAPPER: I'm sorry, if I could just follow up very quickly...Do you think the Iraqi people will be safer with U.S. troops out?
REID: It is clear that the Iraqi people don't want us there. It is clear that there is now a state of chaos in Iraq. And it is up to the Iraqi people to make themselves safe….We can't do it. It's time the training wheels come off and they take care of their own country. We have spent billions dollars. We're now spending $12 billion a month on Iraq. That's enough. In the last six months of the surge, six months, 600 more dead Americans, $60 billion more of American taxpayers' money. We, Democrats, unitedly believe that's enough.
TAPPER: With all due respect, Senator, you didn't answer my question.
REID: OK. This is not a debate.
TAPPER: Will the Iraqis be safer?
REID: We're answering questions. (calling on someone else) Yes, young man? Anyone else have a question?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
what a surprise, Reid ducked the question.
However, frighteningly, I do agree with him that the Iraqi people need to step up and secure their country, too, which, I think they are beginning to do.
Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior National Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers a range of national stories.
SOB, I give credit to the reporter, at least they tried.
Ah, Harry ... now they’re all gonna be gunning for you. Reporters are like sharks when they sense fear from anybody. LOL!
FWIW, Tapper is left of Kuchinish
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“And it is up to the Iraqi people to make themselves safe….We can’t do it. It’s time the training wheels come off and they take care of their own country.”
Yep, all those thousands of dead Iraqi policemen and soldiers need to step up to the plate.... Sickening lair.
At least he posed a good question Reid.
Reid prefers death on a mass scale. The man is total scum. America would be safer without him and his kind.
Pelosi has said some of our Troops will remain in Iraq, Democrats should never be in charge of a Military operation.
He’s also very liberal. Thats an interesting question coming from him.
Tapper goes where no liberal reporter dares to go... at least in this brief moment.
Democrats want to leave a smaller American Force to hunt down Al Qadah, yeah, right in between car-bomb explosions, brains, brains, brains...
Remember...Harry Reid represents a state with 100% tourists or illegal aliens...I do not consider this bog of crap an American
Posted by: bob litfin | Jul 12, 2007 6:35:06 PM
(this is one of the comments on the ABC page linked above)
That should be the case, but don't hold your breath.......
Reid is an enemy of the United States and the people of Iraq who want to be free. He is trying to play the useful fools in this country by the tactic of lying by omission. He will not admit the truth of the huge peril the people of Iraq are in. He will not tell the truth about Iraq and Syria who are rubbing their hands together will glee as the DemonRATs are about to hand the Nation of Iraq over to their dominion. Those same hands that are rubbing in anxiety today will be soaked with the blood of innocent Iraqis when the DemonRATs win the war for them. Reid will not tell the useful fools of the nation the far-ranging consequences of this reckless policy.
“REID: It is clear that the Iraqi people don’t want us there.”
Actually Harry, that’s not clear. Please site some references. What’s clear is that al-qaeda doesn’t want us there. Both al-qaeda in Iraq, and al-qaeda operatives in Congress, such as yourself.
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