(Harrry) Reid slams Bush over Iraq

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Reid slams Bush over Iraq

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid jabbed at President Bush over Iraq Wednesday, saying Bush had no real strategy for success against the continuing insurgency.

"Our troops and the American people need the president to pay more than just lip service to a strategy for the war in Iraq, they need him to lay out what that strategy is with clear markers by which success c an be measured," the Nevada Democrat said.

"Despite the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq for more than three years, President Bush has failed to lay out what his strategy is, politically and militarily, in order to achieve the progress needed to bring our troops home,"

Reid's statement was issued shortly after Bush appeared at the White House with top U.S. military commanders in the Iraq war. Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. George Casey, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, had just briefed Bush on Iraq before they were to go to Capitol Hill to speak with lawmakers.