TheDriver
11-11-2010, 08:23 AM
Former President George W. Bush has released a new book – Decision Points – that is grabbing headlines across the nation, and appears to have thrown a few Republicans under the bus.
Insert Mitch McConnell – the career politician and 5-term senator from Kentucky. George W. Bush claims Mitch made a private face-to-face plea and begged Bush to bring some troops home from Iraq (before the surge) in-order to make the 2006 midterms (and McConnell’s 2008 re-election) go smoother for Republicans, as McConnell sensed an anti-Iraq war backlash in the upcoming elections. Bush makes it crystal clear that McConnell was only concerned about upcoming elections, not national security or success in Iraq, when he made his plea.
“Wow, it stuns me,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s Darwinian — it’s all about survival. …That is not helpful to McConnell.”
“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,” said Congressman John Yarmuth, who was elected in 2006.
Read the rest: http://capitalistbanner.com/2010/11/11/george-w-bush-mitch-mcconnell-suggested-using-troops-as-political-pawns/
Insert Mitch McConnell – the career politician and 5-term senator from Kentucky. George W. Bush claims Mitch made a private face-to-face plea and begged Bush to bring some troops home from Iraq (before the surge) in-order to make the 2006 midterms (and McConnell’s 2008 re-election) go smoother for Republicans, as McConnell sensed an anti-Iraq war backlash in the upcoming elections. Bush makes it crystal clear that McConnell was only concerned about upcoming elections, not national security or success in Iraq, when he made his plea.
“Wow, it stuns me,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s Darwinian — it’s all about survival. …That is not helpful to McConnell.”
“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,” said Congressman John Yarmuth, who was elected in 2006.
Read the rest: http://capitalistbanner.com/2010/11/11/george-w-bush-mitch-mcconnell-suggested-using-troops-as-political-pawns/