Reid's statement

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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75533">Reid: Cheney Still Not Shooting Straight, While Bush Stays a Failed Course

11/1/2006 4:38:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202- 224-2939, both of the Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on Vice President Cheney's unwillingness to shoot straight on Iraq and President Bush's failure to change course:

"The Vice President is still not shooting straight. He's about as credible today as he was when he claimed to have irrefutable evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or that the Iraqi insurgency was in its last throes. Today's report from the U.S. Central Command indicates that Iraq is headed toward chaos, but the Vice President is not talking about that. Yesterday, the Bush Administration allowed the Iraqi Prime Minister to put the interests of Iraqi extremists ahead of the safety of U.S. troops, but the Vice President is not talking about that either. Instead, all we hear is the same old Bush politics of fear and smear.

"It's time for the President and Vice President to start leveling with the American people, and stop attacking brave veterans like John Kerry who have dared to question the White House's flawed decision to stay the course in Iraq. Every day they attack Democrats instead of reaching out to find a new way forward is another day our security suffers and our troops go without the political leadership they need to succeed.

"It's time for a new direction. The President may believe America can afford two more years of Rumsfeld and Cheney, but the American people know the truth. The only way to change direction in Iraq is to change leadership here at home."

Thank you Senator Reid!

[flpoljunkie]

1. Give 'em hell, Harry!