Democrats assail Bush on Iraq, Iran

[Kadie]

Democrats assail Bush on Iraq, Iran

6 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AFP) - The leader of opposition Democrats in the US Senate stepped up his assault on President George W. Bush, warning Iraq had slumped into civil war and assailing the US refusal to engage Iran.

Senator Harry Reid hit back at Republican attacks on US security, a hot button issue in the vitriolic campaign for November's congressional elections.

"We have to change course in Iraq, we are approaching 2,700 dead American men and women, more than 20,000 wounded, a third of them greviously wounded, missing arms, and legs, and eyes, paralysis, brain damage. The cost is three billion dollars a week, Reid said.

"If Iraq is not in a civil war now, I don't know what a civil war is, 100 killed yesterday, 100 killed the day before," Reid said at a conference of political staffers and foreign policy experts on Iran.

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"The Bush administration apparently believes talking is a sign of weakness," he said.

"This aversion to diplomacy is very hard for me to understand. I believe it is a cop out."


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[blm]

1. Time to resubmit Kerry-Feingold for a vote, Harry.

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