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Excerpted from “Bush memoir says Mitch McConnell wanted troop cut to aid GOP candidates in 2006” BY JAMES R. CARROLL, Louisville Courier-Journal, NOVEMBER 9, 2010
[SIZE="+2"]I[/SIZE]n September 2006, with the midterm elections looming, then-Senate Republican Whip Mitch McConnell went privately to President George W. Bush to plead for a troop reduction in Iraq to help the GOP's political prospects.
That is according to Bush, who tells the story in his memoir, Decision Points, which was released Tuesday.
Mitch McConnell, in a meeting alone with Bush, urged the president to “bring some troops home from Iraq” or it would cost Republicans control of Congress. …
Excerpted from “McConnell's true colors,” Editorial, Louisville Courier-Journal, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
[SIZE="+2"]T[/SIZE]his incident, which Sen. McConnell's office has not denied, shines brightly on the contemptible hypocrisy and obsessive partisanship that have come to mark the senator's time in office.
… [T]he public has a right to expect its leaders to pursue loftier goals than partisan success. When voters hear Sen. McConnell these days — at a time of continuing economic hardship — say that Republicans' top priority must be to limit President Obama to a single term, they should ask themselves: Why does he place greater value on that purely political goal than on American citizens' well-being?
Speaking of our soldiers, let's show what "throwing them under the bus" really looks like !
YouTube - Harry Reid: Iraq War Is Lost
I still don't understand why W. would include this little detail in his book about McConnell's private meeting with him. Was it pay back for some slight the Kentucky senator committed? Was the former president unaware how humiliating this would be for Mitch? I don't know.
Glad to see some are still willing to point out the splinter in other's eye while ignoring the beam in their own.
Don't try to change the topic dude, what Harry Reid has to say has nothing to do with this current story.
If you look just at Bush's context, he is showing how politics wants to work its way into many decisions. As my link showed, sometimes in egregious ways. While you quoted a Dem Rep from KY criticizing McConnell, I do not see anything wrong with McConnell's actions. I believe McConnell was correct ... bring some home or you lose here. I see no evidence that McConnell tried to criticise the President publicly, tried to use political leverage to force the President's hand, etc. Heck, Bush was writing a book about what his term was like, so it makes perfect sense being in the book ! Whether Iraq was right-wrong in every aspect is certainly not a decided issue. There are still plenty of Conservatives who think it not the best move, or once initiated, not managed as well as it could have been in a few obvious ways.
Making Obama a "one term President" is putting the country first in the eyes of many of us, btw. I thought the Dems wanted Bush as a one-termer as well
i sense A SOKPUPPET. what does everyone else think?
Speaking of our soldiers, let's show what "throwing them under the bus" really looks like !
YouTube - Harry Reid: Iraq War Is Lost
I suppose the truth, for you, hurts.
I still don't understand why W. would include this little detail in his book about McConnell's private meeting with him. Was it pay back for some slight the Kentucky senator committed? Was the former president unaware how humiliating this would be for Mitch? I don't know.
Answer the question: Why did George Bush have it in for Mitch McConnell?
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