Jack Reed: "Complete victory's a nice slogan, but what does it mean..."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/07/national/w100405S85.DTL

Comments pertaining to President Bush's remarks on Iraq:


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"Iraqis are beginning to see that a free life will be a better life. Reconstruction has not always gone as well as we had hoped, primarily because of the security challenges on the ground. Rebuilding a nation devastated by a dictator is a large undertaking." — President Bush.


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"Just because he says thing are improving there, doesn't make it so ... The president says the security situation on the ground is better. It is not. More of the same in Iraq is not making us safer." — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.


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Bush again "failed to provide a strategy for success or speak honestly to the American people about the failures in rebuilding Iraq and the challenges that lie ahead. Instead, he cherry-picked isolated examples of Iraq's reconstruction from two cities that provide an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the situation on the ground for most Iraqis," — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.


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The president "fails to understand the limited role the U.S. military should play in Iraq's long-term political and economic reconstruction efforts." — Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.


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"Complete victory's a nice slogan, but what does it mean and how long will it take?" — Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.