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ReutersInsults fly over Iraq compromise
By Richard Cowan 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harsh words flew on Tuesday among
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Democrats on funding the Iraq war as Congress inched toward a possible compromise that drops timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops.
........House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California, asked about Bush's claim Democrats were playing politics with the war, shot back, "I heard him say that and I thought it was beneath the dignity." Pelosi, who has always opposed the Iraq war added, "This is an ethical issue. This isn't a political issue."
The insults then moved to the Senate side of the Capitol, where a visiting Vice President Dick Cheney, who nearly always avoids talking to reporters on Capitol Hill, accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) of "defeatism" on the war.
Reid, a Nevada Democrat, responded, "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody that has 9 percent approval ratings." Then he called Cheney "the administration's chief attack dog."
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