Reid: ‘There is a civil war going on in Iraq.’
By on Jul 21st, 2006 at 11:19 am
Reid: ‘There is a civil war going on in Iraq.’
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said yesterday he has been “somewhat gingerly approaching this… No longer. There is a civil war going on in Iraq. In the last two months, more than 6,000 Iraqis have been killed…and we need to make sure there is a debate on this.” Senate conservatives “questioned why Reid wants to go over old ground.”
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he (Reid) has been “somewhat gingerly approaching this…. No longer. There is a civil war going on in Iraq. – - That’s some heavy duty, sturdy limb there that you ventured out onto, Harry.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:24 amFrom the article:
Exactly the sort of shit I’ve come to expect from the Repugs. So 100 Iraqis being killed every day is a ‘rerun’ to you, huh, Ueland?
If Iraq is truly in civil war (which is certainly what it looks like at this point), then they certainly don’t need us there. Time to bring the troops home NOW.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:25 amI think you meant Senate minority leader…
July 21st, 2006 at 11:27 amOld ground? The GOP wants to bury the facts and embrace the President lies.
Old ground my ass.
It is just more criminal activities in the governance of the United States of America. All the GOP in Congress are guility of criminal acts against America.
Every Dem should run against all GOP supporters. Attaching them on their support of the Criminal acts of their GOP Leadership.
GET THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE!
July 21st, 2006 at 11:29 amEverything to them is “old news”, the August PDB was a “historical document”, faulty WMD intelligence is “old news”.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:31 amGrand “Old” Party
July 21st, 2006 at 11:45 amI am looking forward to the time when “old” crimes, like Halliburton cost over runs and Fema mismanagement and the Pentagon expenditures and Bribery in Congress are vigorously examined by a new congress and a new administration.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:54 amThese people are kidding themselves. The statute of limitations has not expired and even if it did their actions can be investigated for historical accuracy.
Now that Harry Reid has finally arrived at the realization that there is a civil war in Iraq, one wonders how long it will be till Reid and the rest of the Democrats reach the logical conclusion that it is the presence of the bellligerent United States military that is causing this civil unrest among the Iraqi population. As the independent journalist Nir Rosen [who has been in Iraq approximately two years] has sagaciously observed, writing in the December issue of The Atlantic, “If the occupation were to end, so, too would the insurgency. After all, what the resistance movement has been resisting is the occupation. Who would the insurgents fight if the enemy [ the less than benevolent presence of the United States] left?” The United States military has been killing Iraqi civilians on a fairly regular basis. The only way to stop this needless bloodshed is for the United States to leave Iraq as quickly and as rapidly as possible.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:56 am” Ueland threatened that Republicans would offer a proposal from Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, which calls for U.S. troops to come home by July of 2007. That plan garnered only 13 Democratic votes in June, and illustrated the party’s divide over the issue.”
Let them. I see several possible good scenarios if they do:
July 21st, 2006 at 12:10 pm1. The Republicans who put up the proposal and vote nay look like the schemers they are
2. More Democrats may vote in favor of withdrawal
3. It keeps Iraq on the front page
4. Some Republicans might actually vote in favor of withdrawal (OK, dreaming here?)
I knew it, with the new fire burning in the Middle East, Iraq would be placed in the background. I have posted this before, and I will post it yet again, because we CANNOT FORGET!
For Their Sake
July 21st, 2006 at 12:17 pmin a related story, senator dodd claims that the sky is blue…
hey, harry, get that nevadan head out of that nevadan butt of yours and DO SOMETHING. lead, you lazy dog!
July 21st, 2006 at 12:21 pmYes Sen. Harry Reid: Iraq occupation has been a mess for almost 3 years now, so why do you continue to vote for funding it in the Senate?
July 21st, 2006 at 12:33 pmoh, harry, take the senate into one of those super-secret sessions…that’s the ticket! it worked so well to get roberts to finish that report! oh…well, he never finished it, did he. hmmm. well, that was only EIGHT MONTHS AGO. how did the follow-up go on that one harry????
you are a spineless simpleton and a sick excuse for a leader of the democratic party.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:36 pmdingy harry is such a moron
July 21st, 2006 at 12:54 pmAnd the world holds america responsible for every death – EVERYBODY BOYCOT AMERICAN GOODS
July 21st, 2006 at 1:03 pmI thought Republicans wanted the Iraq debate to be front and center for this year’s elections. Hmmm…
July 21st, 2006 at 1:08 pmIt’s the GOP SOP. First deny it, then when it’s proved, call it “old news”.
Why rehash old news?
I pray every day that the first to die from the coming Global Warming disasters will be the REPULISCUM who denied it was happening. If there is a God….
July 21st, 2006 at 1:22 pm“Sectarian Violence” if you please.
July 21st, 2006 at 1:25 pmyou wouldn’t know it by reading think progress–unless you saw my link in a post yesterday–the president of iraq, saddam hussein has written a letter to america:
July 21st, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I’m waiting for Fox news to do a report, on why a civil war in Iraq is a good thing.
July 21st, 2006 at 1:58 pmI’m waiting for Fox news to do a report, on why a civil war in Iraq is a good thing.
Comment by Krazny — July 21, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
But they haven’t found the girl in Aruba and the Duke Lacrosse team hasn’t gone to trial.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:55 pmSo the Dems are bringing up the illegal Iraq war and the Repubs are stating that Reid “wants to go over old ground.” Isn’t that the same as revisiting 9/11? Something the Repubs do all the time. Or maybe I shouldn’t mention that 9/11 happened on the GOP watch. That would be going over old ground, just like a flag burning amendment, banning gay marriage amendment, and dismantling Social Security that keeps coming back to Congress.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pmHeard that Turkey is getting readly to invade Iraq… something to do with Kurds crossing into Turkey. See what Bush the frat brat started when he invaded Iraq? He set an example… a BAD example.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:54 pmHarry Reid is way behind his own party around the country. Senators are a priviledged bunch, no doubt about it. But the ground is beginning to shift beneath them, and the Democratic senators and their leadership deserve to be booted out butt first. They have the power to stop the war by stopping the funding for it. They also need to pull their support from war-enabling Senator Judas Lieberman. I won’t take them seriously until they take their own responsibilities seriously.
July 21st, 2006 at 7:39 pm#9- PLC- Republicans want to present a ‘proposal’ from a DEMOCRAT? A ‘proposal is like an ‘idea’, isn’t it? The thing that Democrats are accused of not having any of? And so the Republicans show themselves to be liars, once again. What a surprise. :)
July 22nd, 2006 at 6:40 amThings You Should Know About This Morning…
Some things that caught my eye as I was trying to catch up on my RSS feeds: -Check out the Post’s newest ‘06 Election feature. -The Chicago Tribune put the smackdown on the NRCC over “liberal media bias”. -Harry Reid……
July 24th, 2006 at 10:59 am