"W" leaks some truth: The Fortunes Of Repuke Party=More Important Than Safety Of USA (how quaint...)

(how quaint...)

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.

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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.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20101111/OPINION01/311110017

The ONLY Democrats or should I say Liberals that will bring this up are Rachel or Keith...Obama will never mention it nor will any other elected Democrat.....Everyone knows the game..They all play the same game...

that it is okay to put party BEFORE country? They have done this ever since....

"news" is that it isn't news at all. Rachel did a piece on it on her friday show. how can this be news to anyone? politics is always first to republicans. haven't they proved with their wars, with their pathetic response to katrina, with their pandering to big money and big corporations, with their willingness to lie, cheat, steal elections, disrupt civil discourse, obstruct congress from getting anything done, on and on i could go on and on, haven't they already proved beyond any fucking doubt whatsoever that they don't give a rat's ass about this country?

it's pretty normal as far as i can tell. and the republicans could not care less if their hypocrisy shows as long as they have enough voting people buying into their lies and propaganda to make an election close. as long as it's close they can steal it. whatever it takes. their priorities have been clear for decades.

eta that's why i hate them.

Lying sacks of...well,you get the picture.