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Say, what! Bush threw fellow Republican, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) under the bus?!??
Yup. Mitch McConnell's national security policy is based on what's good for the Republican party.
McConnell was privately counseling the president to reduce troop levels in Iraq even as he was attacking the patriotism of his political opponents who publicly said the same.
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. …
Yup. Mitch McConnell's national security policy is based on what's good for the Republican party.
“If the story is true, Sen. McConnell will have to explain to the families of all the men and women who sacrificed in Iraq why he was willing to play politics with their lives.” — U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-KY
McConnell was privately counseling the president to reduce troop levels in Iraq even as he was attacking the patriotism of his political opponents who publicly said the same.
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?