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November 12, 2005
Senator Harry Reid Accuses Bush of Attacking Patriotic Americans
United States Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada accused President George W. Bush on November 11, 2005 of "Attacking those patriotic Americans who have raised serious questions about the case the Bush administration made to take our country to war does not provide us a plan for success that will bring our troops home" according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Mr. Reid's statement was in response to Mr. Bush's November 11, 2005 speech in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, in which he said:
While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. (Applause.) Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war.Mr. Bush said, "These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs."
Posted by Munir Umrani at November 12, 2005 03:00 PM
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