Senator Reid's response to the dim one's statements this am;

[babylonsister]

http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=272938&

Newsroom

April 24, 2007
Reid: Bush In Denial About Reality On The Ground

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released this statement following President Bush’s comments at the White House Tuesday morning:

The President apparently remains in a dangerous state of denial about the situation on the ground in Iraq and its impact on our security at home. Although the President rightly stated that the American people voted against failure in Iraq last November, they also clearly voted against a policy that is leading us to failure – and that’s what the President’s stay the course strategy does.

While ten more of our brave men and women died yesterday in one of the deadliest days of this war, President Bush continues to offer more of the same: a failed policy that has our troops mired in an open-ended civil war that risks our security at home. The Iraq policy set forth in the Supplemental bill has been supported by the American people, senior military leaders and a bipartisan majority in Congress. It changes the course by fully funding our troops and providing a responsible end to this war. It holds the Iraqis accountable for securing their nation and forging political reconciliation. It ensures our troops are combat-ready before being deployed to Iraq, and provides them with all the resources needed on the battlefield and when they return.

Most importantly, it recognizes that each day we stay the course in Iraq further weakens our fight against terrorism and other threats throughout the world. The President repeatedly used the phrase “precipitous withdrawal” in his remarks. There is nothing precipitous about insisting that the President change course after more than four years of his failed policy. We hope the President will join us in giving our troops the resources and strategy they need and deserve.

[saltpoint]

1. Harry's right. We need to stick with him.

Recommended.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Did any networks cover this response?

Keep hitting him, Harry.

[babylonsister]

6. Not to my knowledge, but they sure covered * and Cheney's today.

Same ole, same ole.

[Beaverhausen]

8. I watched Bush today and hoped that other americans were as disgusted as I was

Knowing his approval rating is in the toilet keeps my hope alive that most of us don't buy his brand of bullshit anymore. But it would be nice if the media let the dems response get some airtime, too.

[EVDebs]

3. "Decent Interval" a la Nixon...

Frank Snepp's book Decent Interval shows Nixon using the delaying tactics to end the war and its funding in order to lay blame for 'failure' on others. In our case, an incoming Democratic administration will be handcuffed to the GOP's bungling, and the current House and Senate minority party members are dragging their feet on this funding issue in order to insure this tactic works for them.

[spanone]

4. Give 'Em Hell Harry.

[rodeodance]

5. k

[MissMarple]

7. Bush may not be in a "dangerous state of denial". Everything is going just fine.

Scary thought, but, a post several weeks ago noted an Iranian's conversation with Bush at a White House function. The man told Bush that if we invaded or bombed, we would unite the Iranian people against us. Bush gleefully retorted, "I know!". That is an even scarier idea.

I think this administration's goal really is total world domination, in their lifetimes.

[Danieljay]

9. and when he caves in and gives Bush the money anyway, what will he say then?

Just wondering.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. The truly sad part is, if our goal was as stated, the removal of

Saddam and elimination of WMDs, and we packed up and went home when those goals were accomplished 3 years ago, there would be no war there today. There not only would be no war, but there would probably be a secular democracy, because they had a halfway decent constitution, at least on paper, even during the Saddam years.

But those were never our real goals, were they. That's why we blew up the Golden Mosque, to kick off extreme sectarian violence that would keep us there until we got their oil locked up.

[patrice]

11. K&R

[GeorgeGist]

12. Harry, agreeing with Shrub's prevarication isn't helpful ...

'Although the President rightly stated that the American people voted against failure in Iraq last November'

[Supersedeas]

13. when will the Corporate Media finally catch up??