Reid calls Post editorial board 'eager cheerleaders' for Bush war effort

Reid calls Post editorial board 'eager cheerleaders' for Bush war effort | Nick Juliano | Published: Thursday July 26, 2007

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized the Washington Post's editorial writers today, saying their enthusiastic support for President Bush and his pursuit of war in Iraq led them to "disregard ... the facts" in evaluating the war.

"On reading the July 21 editorial 'The Phony Debate,' it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies -- the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions," Reid wrote in a letter to the editor published Thursday.
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The Nevada Democrat also called the Post editorial writers "disingenuous" for arguing Democrats are using Iraq to rile up voters.

"[T]he American people are sufficiently disappointed on their own," he wrote. "Three-quarters of Americans recognize that the war is going badly, three out of five support further funding only if it includes a timetable for transitioning the mission, and nearly all expect their president to work with Congress to do something to change course."