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Reid on Bush on Iraq: He just doesn’t get it

"He doesn't understand the urgency ... It's all victory for him."

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Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sat down for a post-election interview with the Washington Post Tuesday, and he made it as clear as he could that Iraq would be the No. 1 priority for his Senate Democrats: “Three Americans killed yesterday, four British; 150 Iraqis taken out of that building and kidnapped; 1,800-plus went through that one Baghdad morgue but that doesn’t count all the dead … My displeasure with the president, he doesn’t understand the urgency of this. It’s all victory for him, but I don’t know what that means anymore in Iraq. I do know what we are doing now doesn’t work.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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