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Reid: Bush has 'exit strategy' only for himself
The Politico ^

Posted on 04/10/2008 11:34:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Reid: Bush has 'exit strategy' only for himself

Congressional Democrats pushed back hard Thursday against President Bush’s speech on Iraq, accusing him of delaying further troop withdrawals so that he can hand off the conflict to the next president.

Democrats welcomed Bush’s call to reduce troop deployments from 15 months to 12 months, but they said he should go further and embrace a proposal by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) under which soldiers would spend at least a year at home before they could be called back to active duty in Iraq.

Webb’s deployment proposal came up three votes short last year, and many Democrats have discussed reviving the issue when Congress takes up the latest war supplemental in the coming weeks.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called Bush’s deployment plan “one step forward and two steps back.”

On the one hand, Reid said, “The administration is finally heeding the call of congressional Democrats and military leaders to decrease troop deployments to 12 months." On the other hand, he said that Bush’s support for Gen. David Petraeus’ plan to pause troop withdrawals “has signaled to the American people that he has no intention of bringing home any more troops.”

"Instead, Reid said, “he is leaving all the tough decisions to the next administration. President Bush has an exit strategy for only one man – himself on January 20, 2009.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) struck a similar note.

“We need better answers from the president,” said Pelosi. “He is just dragging this out to put it at the doorstep of the next president.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bugeyespiglousy; demorattraitors; dinghyharry; godblesspotusbush; mccainin2008; petraeus; rotation; victoryiniraq; webb
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Sounds like they need their respective diapers changed and quit sucking their thumbs.....
1 posted on 04/10/2008 11:34:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Seriously self-marginalized!


2 posted on 04/10/2008 11:38:40 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: All

Too bad Bush doesn’t have a permanent exit plan for Reid...like a nice visit to the tribal areas of Pakistan.


3 posted on 04/10/2008 11:39:00 AM PDT by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: Sub-Driver
Since the Democrats are so hellbent on losing in Iraq all they have to do now is win the election and they can take all the credit for losing it all to themselves. President Bush will leave the next President the tools needed to win if they choose to.
4 posted on 04/10/2008 11:39:36 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: Sub-Driver
"We need better answers from the president,” said Pelosi. “He is just dragging this out to put it at the doorstep of the next president.”

Typical Democrat response. Notice they never offer a solution to anything.

5 posted on 04/10/2008 11:40:42 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Sub-Driver
Had you been paying attention, Harry, you would have heard W state that troops will get a year off between deployments.
6 posted on 04/10/2008 11:41:02 AM PDT by Blue State Insurgent (Superdelegates = The Guardian Council)
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To: Sub-Driver

7 posted on 04/10/2008 11:41:20 AM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Someone needs to show Reid the door. That can be his exit strategy.


8 posted on 04/10/2008 11:42:11 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds just like what Clinton did in Utah by declaring all of the prime coal mining sites “National Treasures” right before leaving office to help out his criminal pals the Riadys.


9 posted on 04/10/2008 11:42:28 AM PDT by LetsRok
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To: Sub-Driver

America needs an “exit strategy” for this House and Senate full of self-serving, socialist, elitists.


10 posted on 04/10/2008 11:42:36 AM PDT by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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To: Sub-Driver

If I had a terminal illness and was going to be granted one wish before I died, it would be to punch Harry Reid in the mouth.


11 posted on 04/10/2008 11:44:04 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Vote McCain - The Choice who Sucks Less!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Democrats talking about dragging things out? That is hilarious! They are only upset cause they think they will win the WH next and don’t want to make any hard decisions about anything other than how they can separate your money from you by calling it something other than Socialism.


12 posted on 04/10/2008 11:44:36 AM PDT by sappy
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To: Sub-Driver

Actually, the worse thing that President Bush is leaving behind is the Congressional leadership: Reid and Pelosi.


13 posted on 04/10/2008 11:44:43 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: TommyDale
Someone needs to show Reid the door. That can be his exit strategy.

Nevada, can you be of any help here?

Please?

14 posted on 04/10/2008 11:45:38 AM PDT by kromike
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To: lesser_satan

Indeed for all we know, it may well be top of the list at The Make A Wish Foundation.


15 posted on 04/10/2008 11:46:17 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s hard to believe that the Senate Dems could choose a leader - Reid - who has less charisma, charm, personality, and leadership skills than Tom Daschle. Of course Harry is a very sharp real-estate investor.


16 posted on 04/10/2008 11:46:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a worm Reid is: Wally Cox meets Heinrich Himmler, with none of the brainpower of either one.


17 posted on 04/10/2008 11:46:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please do not put the fine actor and US Army veteran Wally Cox in the same category as these low characters.


18 posted on 04/10/2008 11:54:49 AM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: spectre

Well said. Democrats rarely if ever bring forth situations. Oh, but they conduct investigations and hold panels. It’s all form—not substance.

“We need better answers from the president,” said Pelosi”

Didn’t this woman just endorse Barak Obama? Then on what grounds does she have to approach ANYONE regarding better answers? There hasn’t been a more shallow, more less-defined Presidential candidate in my lifetime. What does he stand for? HOPE! Unity!

Yep, that’s it. That’s his platform.

Yet morons fall for the fraud in droves.


19 posted on 04/10/2008 11:58:06 AM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“... Wally Cox meets Heinrich Himmler...”

LOL.


20 posted on 04/10/2008 11:59:01 AM PDT by karnage
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