Damai dan keadilan sangat dibutuhkan di Timur Tengah, dan seluruh dunia. Lebih
dari 3000
serdadu AS tewas, sekitar 750 000 sipil Irak dibantai. Imperialisme AS juga
harus dilawan di Indonesia, dengan cara politik dan ekonomi, tidak dengan
fanatisme agamis
Published on Friday, April 20, 2007 by Associated Press
Harry Reid Tells Bush: War is Lost by Anne Flaherty
WASHINGTON - Senate majority leader Harry Reid said yesterday that the war
in Iraq is lost, triggering an angry backlash from Republicans who said the
top Democrat had turned his back on the troops.The bleak assessment, the
sharpest yet from Reid, came as the House voted 215 to 199 to uphold
leglislation ordering troops out of Iraq next year. Reid said he told Bush on
Wednesday that he thought the war could not be won through military force, but
only through political, economic, and diplomatic means.
I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and -
you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - [know]
this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by
the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday, said Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
Republicans pounced on the comment as evidence, they said, that Democrats do
not support the troops.
I cant begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their
lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear that
the Democrat leader of the United States Senate has declared the war is lost,
said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky.
Last month, the House passed legislation that funded the war in Iraq but
ordered combat missions to end by September 2008. The Senate passed similar
legislation that would set a nonbinding goal of bringing combat troops home by
March 31, 2008.
Bush said he would veto either measure, and warned that troops are being
harmed by Congresss failure to deliver the funds quickly.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon says it has enough money to pay for the Iraq war
through June. The Army is taking prudent measures to slow the purchase of
nonessential supplies and restrict other elective spending while still
maintaining troop readiness, according to instructions sent to Army commanders
and budget officials April 14.
The accounting moves are similar to those enacted last year when the
Republican-led Congress did not deliver a war funding bill to Bush until
mid-June.
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