Reid: Iraq NIE Offers No Support for Escalating the War

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid released the following statement on the new National
Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, about which senators received a classified
briefing today from the intelligence community.

"Our nation's intelligence community deserves tremendous credit for
their hard work on this National Intelligence Estimate. As the unclassified
summary made clear, the president's plan to escalate the war is not the
best strategy to complete the job and is not in America's national
interest. The sooner we change the military mission in Iraq, the sooner we
can restore America's security. Additional U.S. ground forces deployed into
a civil war will not end the violence or bring about the necessary
political compromises. Now it is time for the American people to hear what
the Senate thinks about the President's plan to escalate the war in Iraq.
Senate Republicans should stop blocking this critical debate."

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