Posted on 04/19/2006 8:15:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Bush administration is relying too heavily on other countries in the international effort to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to Sen. Harry Reid.
Reid, D-Nev., said the administration should be taking the lead, but instead is relying on Germany, France and Great Britain to convince Iran to end its uranium enrichment program.
"It is hard to comprehend," Reid said Tuesday in Reno. "We should be involved at trying to arrive at a diplomatic solution. ... Not just these three countries."
Reid said the Middle East is a "powder keg" because of U.S. failures in Iraq, the rise of fundamentalism and the recent election of Hamas in Palestine.
"Our not being involved diplomatically in trying to solve the situation in Iran shows the Bush failure in foreign policy there and elsewhere."
And he said the U.S. has no military option in Iran.
"We don't have the resources to do it" because of the ongoing war in Iraq," he said.
On Wednesday, Republican National Committee spokesman Tucker Bounds said the president has not ruled out military action in Iran.
Reid opened his day on Tuesday addressing The Northern Nevada Faith-Based Services Summit, which mirrored an event Reid organized last year in Las Vegas - an ecumenical gathering of religious groups and social services advocates.
Reid stopped short of saying the summit reflected a melding of government and religion. Rather, he said churches need to know where to turn for financial resources outside of their congregation.
Beyond connecting religious organizations with federal resources, Reid said the summit also sought to connect the various religious organizations with one another, private businesses and secular social service providers.
"Churches need to understand what is out there for them," he said. "It is beneficial for churches to understand that they are not alone."
As Nevada faces growing difficulties in providing health care, affordable housing and senior services, faith-based organizations are becoming an important part of the social safety net, summit participants said.
Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, told the summit audience Democrats and Republicans failed to talk about the needs of the poor in the last election.
"There's been a lot of talk about the faith-based initiative," Edgar said. "It is my fear that President Bush thought the faith-based initiative would simply be, 'Lets take all the welfare programs and dump that on the churches and synagogues and mosques.' The faith-based initiative must be based on partnership."
You go on spouting that, along with the deluded sods in Teheran, right until the fireworks.
damned if he does, damned if he doesn't... go it alone anyone...
WIth Iraq, Reid was moaning that Bush was unilateral and that we needed help from other countries, now he's saying that we're relining too much on them. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Nothing would satisfy them
Poor Harry, he just doesn`t understand
It is amazing, isn't it?
I'd call Harry and the gang two-faced, except for the fact that I think I'd be understating the situation.
New name for Harry Reid, Tehran Tim... Kinda like Baghdad Bob
Liberals pi** me off!( DU would allow cursing-- No class there)
Dingy Harry makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman
Sounds like he is fighting for the wrong side.
THESE PEOPLE MAKE ME NUTS!!!! ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!
This is just more of what the dems were saying on the Sunday Talk shows...Reid is just doing his duty to Soros and gang...
Harry 'the undertaker' Reid reminds me of a beerless stinky beercan with lead pellets in it: you shake it and it makes noise, but beyond the noise it's useless and needs to be tossed out.
Is there such a word as DISpatriotic...????
Liberals do what liberals do. I changed my tag line to reflect their idiocy.
Yea, we call them "French" :)
LOL....perfect!
That's a rather scary remark but dead-reckoning. Let's hope that the people in Nevada are as remotely intelligent as those in SD in the next cycle..
I'd blast him too for visiting Janet Reno!
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