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Pelosi Blasts Bush's "Ten Year War"

Nancy Pelosi has a new formulation to describe the Iraq War: Bush's "Ten Year War." Check out her just-released statement lacerating the White House's new report finding slim progress in Iraq:

“President Bush is committed to 10 more years of war in Iraq at a cost of untold lives lost and hundreds of billions of dollars to American taxpayers, even though today’s White House report admits little progress has been made by the Iraqi government.

“The redeployment of our troops cannot be delayed by the failure of the Iraqi government to achieve the political and economic benchmarks established by the Bush Administration. The American people reject the President’s 10-year war in Iraq and want a responsible redeployment to end this war.”

The "ten year war" formulation seems like a potentially effective one -- its basis appears to be General Petraeus' recent claim to a Congressional delegation that we could be in Iraq for a decade to come. Meanwhile, Harry Reid also harshly condemned the report today, blasting the lack of progress and the non-drawdown of troops to pre-surge levels as "unacceptable." Reid's full statement here.


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