Posted on 08/23/2007 10:51:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reid: NIE Highlights Need For Urgent Change In Iraq Policy
Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today, following the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq:
“Today’s National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq confirms what most Americans already know: Our troops are mired in an Iraqi civil war and the President’s escalation strategy has failed to produce the political results he promised to our troops and the American people.
Our troops have done everything asked of them and more. Unfortunately Iraq’s leaders have not. And as today’s NIE makes clear, a political solution is extremely unlikely in the near term. Further pursuit of the Administration’s flawed escalation strategy is not in our nation’s best interests.
Every day that we continue to stick to the President’s flawed strategy is a day that America is not as secure as it could be. As the intelligence community reported in another NIE just weeks ago, America’s attention is distracted from Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which has regenerated its capacity to its pre-9/11 levels. That is why it is so essential that this September, Republicans join with Democrats to change course in Iraq and work to restore our nation’s security.”
Harry Reid must really like the taste of his foot.
Can’t think of another explanation that holds water.
There is absolutely no opinion Reid would have that would interest me. He has said the war in Iraq is already lost and will stick to that in some form or another no matter the facts.
All these Dems calling for Maliki to step down are really intent on disrupting any continuity of Iraqi leadership so as to diminish any success resulting from the current military “surge” strategy. They have been unable to de-rail Bush so they are turning their attention to knocking off Maliki.
Can't some republicans just step on this bug loudly for his engaging in rank nutty partisanship in the middle of a war?
Now the president somehow lied to the troops about political developments in Iraq? I don't think so. This Reid is spitting straight in the face of the troops as they succeed and someone needs to call him on it.
This pathetic excuse for a “man” makes Lord Haw Haw look stalwart in comparison.
Intelligence Assessment Suggests Now Is Not Time to Change Mission in Iraq
Thursday , August 23, 2007
WASHINGTON —
Shifting the U.S. military mission in Iraq to only combat support and terror-fighting will wipe out most of the achievements made in the last three years, warns the latest National Intelligence Estimate released Thursday.
That dire prediction, buried deep within the unclassified version of the report, states:
“We assess that changing the mission of coalition forces from a primarily counterinsurgency and stabilization role to a primary combat support role for Iraqi forces and counterterrorist operations to prevent AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq) from establishing a safe haven would erode security gains achieved thus far,” the report states.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294239,00.html
If there were a “Tokyo Rose” broadcasting for the enemy in Bagdhad, wouldn’t they issue statements EXACTLY like this one from Reid?
Funny none of the Democrat Clowns had a word to say when Osama was out there freely blowing up U.S. Military Personal in the 1990’s and we were outsourcing our troops to the Balkans to do what the Europeans would not in saving their kinsmen.
F*ck you Harry Reid and the horse you rode in on, better yet I hope the horse is doing you!
Note the rather crude working in of "mired," "civil war," and "escalation" into a single sentence. Subtle as a sack of wet cement. People who speak in cliches tend to think in them as well. Thinking isn't Harry's strong suit either.
“Harry Reid in 2008: “What do you mean I’m Senate MINORITY Leader?”
Ol’ Harry is definately gone from a never been to a has been. This is the kind of trash merchant the left selected as their leader in the senate. It tells you the quality of this pathetic collection of clowns.
The message of Tokyo Rose:
1. Your President is lying to you.
2. This war is illegal.
3. You cannot win the war.
Keep it up, Tokyo Harry...
Harry Reid is dying to take a helicopter tour in this bird:
(P.S. This is what defeat looks like Harry!)
Geez, how could you wish something like that on a Horse?
Please make this post a thread of its own so people will see this lies of this hateful SOB traitor Harry Reid. Thank you.
“...someone needs to call him on it.”
You just did. We all do, Don’t laugh, FR is read in places and by people you cannot imagine. Our voices, our thoughts expressed in our commentary aren’t just pee’ing in the wind.
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