Harry Reid (D-NV) released the following statement on Bush's Speech

[kpete]

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released the following statement to RAW STORY on President Bush’s speech at the Naval Academy.

“Just two weeks ago, a bipartisan majority of the United States Senate registered a vote of no confidence in the president’s current policy in Iraq. Democrats and Republicans called on the president to change course and release a strategy for success in Iraq with specific benchmarks by which the progress could be measured. Today, President Bush failed to meet this call. Instead, he recycled his tired rhetoric of ‘stay the course’ and once again missed an opportunity to lay out a real strategy for success in Iraq that will bring our troops safely home.

“After nearly 1,000 days of war in Iraq, our troops, their families, and the American people deserve more than just a Bush-Cheney public relations campaign. They deserve a clear strategy with military, economic and political measures to be met in order to successfully complete our mission. The president's continued refusal to provide that plan does nothing to support our troops or their families. Simply staying the course is no longer an option, we must change the course. We can do better.”
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democrats_respond_to_Bush_speech_1130.html

[BurtWorm]

1. Damn straight.

:applause:

[LiberalinNC]

2. Right on the money!!!

"Simply staying the course is no longer an option, we must change the course. We can do better.”

I love HARRY!!!!

[Greybnk48]

3. kick

What a pleasant surprise Harry Reid has turned out to be. Give 'em hell Harry!!

[mike_c]

4. right on-- good statement....

eom

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I wish CNN had followed the speech with Reid, instead of Ben Nelson. nt

[kansasblue]

6. "We can do better." I like it!

[ThatsMyBarack]

7. Harry ROX again!

:party: :applause: :woohoo:

[Arkana]

8. W...wha?

Just two weeks ago, a bipartisan majority of the United States Senate registered a vote of no confidence in the president’s current policy in Iraq.

Did this really happen???? Why did I miss it?

[killbotfactory]

9. Here's Bush's real strategy

1. Blow shit up
2. ???
3. Profit!

[Tom Joad]

10. Don't want no freakin' imperialistic *success*, bring the troops home

What part of that doesn't Reid and Pelosi understand?

They can shove their *benchmarks for success* up their big fat asses...

Any strategy for *success* (this invasion was a crime, it is not a game)will only come at the cost of thousands of more dead Iraqis, more dead GI's, more hatred toward Americans, more violence between groups in Iraq... and still will not result in "stability".

The first thing we should say is that this war was a crime, we are now willing to pay reparations for the decades of conflict with Iraq (from George the First, Clinton's economic strangulation of Iraq, and this current invasion and occupation. We will totally dismantle all military facilities in Iraq. We will also leave surrounding nations, dismantling military bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. We will no longer give military aid to any country in the region.

That is a strategy for real success.

[LibDemAlways]

12. I agree that calls for "success" are bullshit.

You can't illegally invade and occupy a country terrorizing its people, destroying its infrastructure, and stealing its resources and expect any kind of "success."

The only course of action is to admit that this was one giant neocon clusterfuck, get the hell out, and pay reparations.

No one is yet squaring with the American people about PNAC and the permanent bases. I can't believe Pelosi and Reid are in the dark. Not calling this what it is - a land and oil grab and attempt to exert American control over the region - means they are all complicit. There are a hell of a lot of bloody hands in DC.

[autorank]

20. I want them to hit Bush much harder, and incorporate Murtha's great truth.

Murtha said that by being there we make things worse. That's been the core pragmatic argument from day one. They don't want us there. I saw a march where an Iraqi was interviewed. He said something like 'we're really glad Saddam is gone, thanks, now please leave." This was about 60 days into the whole thing. But of course, it was never *co's intention to leave, to wit the gazillion dollar "embassy" and the bases built.

If Murtha knows our presence is the problem, then the Iraqi's damn well know. The "election" will be a mess, I predict. After the last one on the constitution, there were protests which were met by military action when they turned into "riots." This election is the ball game for PR and I fear that we've set a tragedy in motion.

Ugh...how on earth did we get this idiot and his cohort of clowns in the WH? That's rhetorical on my part, I know the answer. ELECTION FRAUD and an indifferent "opposition party" at the discovery of the fraud after 2000 and 2004. No more quiescence!

[Spinzonner]

11. There is a clear strategy

Keep holding Iraqi elections for this and that and having negotiations that don't finally address the basic conflicts in Iraqii society and hope that it will all work out in the end.

Of course, with administration tradition, there are no contingency plans or preparation for what to do if that all falls apart except perhaps stay indefinitely until it all works out magically and with enough deaths or - cut and run which will then be a brilliant Republican strategy.

And if that doesn't happen until a Democrat has been elected to cleanup up Shrub's messes, then it will be all the Democrats' fault that we 'lost Iraq'. Which we never really had anyway.

[esvhicl]

13. Another laundry list

The speech sounded like another laundry list of things we've done. Sort of lik NOLA... And we know how true that was!!!

[autorank]

14. Keep kicking ass...run him to ground. Make his life miserable every

single day. Reid is relentless.

Let it rip...every day.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. "we can do better?"

We can get the fuck out. That would be better. Anything else is just more of the same.

[spanone]

16. Fookin' A Harry!

[0007]

17. Kudos for Harry Reid!

[ultraist]

18. We do "deserve more than a PR campaign," esp our troops.

Instead, he recycled his tired rhetoric of ‘stay the course’ and once again missed an opportunity to lay out a real strategy for success in Iraq that will bring our troops safely home.

the American people deserve more than just a Bush-Cheney public relations campaign.

:applause:

:patriot:

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Give 'em hell Harry!

Him and Pelosi and Dean are the best democratic leaders we've had!!

[Cha]

21. bush is stonewalling because

none of those mentally challenged neocons can come up with a plan?