Former President, George W. Bush’s truth in his book – “Decision Points,” reveals the sick, demented, dark and dangerous mind;

Of, Senator Mitch McConnell! Page 355, Chapter 12 tells the story:

In September of 2006, Senator Mitch McConnell went to President George W. Bush for a private meeting. McConnell told Bush “that the Republican Party was in trouble and they could lose control of both Houses of Congress.” McConnell told Bush “that he should bring some troops home from Iraq which may help the Republicans retain control of the Congress.” Understand, Mitch McConnell wasn’t asking the President to do this out of any concern for the good of America or anything noble, this request was for “pure Political reasons.”

In an amazing moment of courage, President George W. Bush told the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell – “that he was not going to reduce the troops but reinforce the troop strength, because he did not send the troops into Iraq to win an Election, he sent them their to win a war.”

Like many, to this day I believe it was a total blunder on Mr. Bush’s part to go to war with Iraq, for nothing good has come out of that very misguided policy, but as much as I am a critic of Mr. Bush on so many levels, at least in this case, President Bush made a most courageous decision, and I applaud him for that.

See the Editorial as written in The Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky of this account!

“George W. Bush got a lot wrong in his administration, but he certainly did figure out Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell.

In his new memoir, Decision Points, the former president tells of a meeting he held in September 2006 with Mr. McConnell, then the Republican whip in the Senate. The occupation of Iraq was going horribly, American and Iraqi casualties were rising sharply, costs had mushroomed into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and Iraq was teetering on the brink of full-scale sectarian civil war. Mr. McConnell was concerned, and he gave the president his advice.

But why was he concerned? It wasn't because of bloodshed, destruction, a hemorrhaging budget or a slide toward disaster. He was fearful that the morass in Iraq would cause the Republican Party to take a beating in the approaching mid-term elections. And what was his advice? He urged the president to “bring some troops home from Iraq” to lessen the political risks, Mr. Bush writes.

This 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.

At the time that Sen. McConnell was privately advising Mr. Bush to reduce troop levels in Iraq, he was elsewhere excoriating congressional Democrats who had urged the same thing. “The Democrat[ic] leadership finally agrees on something — unfortunately it's retreat,” Sen. McConnell had said in a statement on Sept. 5, 2006, about a Democratic letter to Mr. Bush appealing for cuts in troop levels. Sen. McConnell, who publicly was a stout defender of the war and Mr. Bush's conduct of the conflict, accused the Democrats of advocating a position that would endanger Americans and leave Iraqis at the mercy of al-Qaida.

Unless he is prepared to call a former president of his own party a liar, Mr. McConnell has a choice. He can admit that he did not actually believe the Iraq mission was vital to American security, regardless of what he said at the time. Or he can explain why the fortunes of the Republican Party are of greater importance than the safety of the United States.

Mr. Bush did not take Sen. McConnell's advice. Indeed, after the election he increased American troop strength in the so-called “surge.” The former president presumably recounts the 2006 meeting to show that he placed a higher priority on success in Iraq than on political victory.

As usual, Sen. McConnell's political instincts were right. The Republicans did lose control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats in the November 2006 election. In Louisville, the war's unpopularity helped John Yarmuth unseat five-term Republican Rep. Anne Northup in the 3rd Congressional District.

But the 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?”

(The Courier Journal link)

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010311110017

Sheriff G Ali