Sen. Reed: no 'blank check' for war in Iraq (radio address)

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Source: Associated Press

Sen. Jack Reed says America can't afford the Republican strategy of continuing to write blank checks for the Iraq war.

"At a time when the war in Iraq costs $10 billion each month, Americans are paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, and our economy is struggling, we cannot continue down the path that President Bush and Senator McCain propose: writing blank check after blank check," Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, said Saturday in his party's weekly radio address.

Reed said Democrats have outlined a better plan to carefully redeploy combat troops out of Iraq and give them missions such as counterterrorism and training Iraq's military.

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"Some of the soldiers and Marines we met in the field are on their third and fourth tours of duty," Reed said. "And they deserve a policy that is worthy of their sacrifice."

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/07/26/reed_no_blank_check_for_iraq/

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Senator Jack Reed Delivers the Democratic Radio Address
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/senator_jack_re_1.php

[msongs]

1. dems have given bush a blank check for 7 years, reed is full of it nt

[ixion]

2. yep...

no blank cheque, except when * asks for one. :eyes: :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

3. Nice timing, Jack

You should have been making this speech a couple of months ago.

[ohio2007]

4. hmmm. lucky for him few people listen to the radio...

[Solly Mack]

5. Oh, those checks haven't been blank...lots of zeros each and every time Bush asked for it

[Better Believe It]

6. Didn"t Reed Just Sign A 200 Billion Dollar Check?

I think it's enough to cover military operations until early next year.

That way another vote won't have to be taken (in which most Democrats would vote aye) just before the November elections.

And that's not much of a promise from Senator Reed. Bush would never accept a blank check. He wants numbers, big numbers on those checks!

And he's gotten every penny he's asked for.

[ryanmuegge]

7. This sounds just like Bush: up is down.

The Democrats in Washington are, apparently, also do not belong to the reality-based community.

[Plucketeer]

8. No DUH!

Earth to Reed - Earth to Reed! :dunce:

[yy4me]

9. This tune seems very familiar, seems to me that I've heard it

before. It was off-key then and still is.

We have not seen anywhere near the total cost of this fiasco yet, there will be billions more to come, check or no check.

[salguine]

10. I envision more blank checks coming. Probably soon.

[MichiganVote]

11. Sure...and we're all going to believe this bullshit.

[Phred42]

12. Too Late....

[DailyGrind51]

13. Sure, NOW he says this, after he has already signed and mailed the check!

[Zhade]

14. "Anymore"

NT!

[riverdeep]

15. "This time I won't pull the football away Charlie Brown, I promise."

Seems to me we've heard this line before from the Democrats. I'll believe it when I see it.

[humbled_opinion]

16. But as Soon as Obama asks for

a little money to help the poor folks afford Health Care or basic needs in our own country the Checkbook will suddenly disappear....... This is truly the insanity of our times.