By ANDREW MIGA ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER From left, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., conservation architect May Shaer and Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., tour the citadel in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed says America can't afford the Republican strategy of continuing to write blank checks for the Iraq war. "At a time when the war in Iraq costs $10 billion each month, Americans are paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, and our economy is struggling, we cannot continue down the path that President Bush and Senator McCain propose: writing blank check after blank check," Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, said Saturday in his party's weekly radio address. Reed said Democrats have outlined a better plan to carefully redeploy combat...
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