LAS VEGAS, Aug. 31 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he is willing to work with Republicans to find a compromise to limit troop deployments to Iraq.
Reid said the coming weeks will mark "one of the last opportunities" to change the course of the war in Iraq and he is willing to push aside his previous demand for a U.S. withdrawal from the country in spring 2008 in favor of a compromise, The Washington Post reported Friday.
"I don't think we have to think that our way is the only way," Reid said at his Las Vegas office. "I'm not saying, 'Republicans, do what we want to do.' Just give me something that you think you would like to do, that accomplishes some or all of what I want to do."
"I don't think we had any choice," Reid told the Post of seeking a compromise. "I have no regrets about the way that I have tried to marshal the troops. It's been hard to keep all the Democrats together but we have done that."
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