Smart Ass McConnell-Obama has "courage" to continue the b*sh Admins policies on Iraq and Afghanistan

[masuki bance]

... Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is lauding the president for having the "courage" to continue the Bush Administration's policies on Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I want to compliment the president on how he has handled both Iraq and Afghanistan," Sen. McConnell told reporters on Friday.

"We had a briefing the day before his Iraq announcement and I felt I was still sitting around with the previous administration," McConnell said, describing a briefing President Obama and his national security team gave Congressional leaders two weeks ago. "The president was basically, from my point of view, it struck me, announcing a continuation of the policy in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The plan President Obama announced was to withdraw combat troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010, but to leave a force of 35,000 to 50,000 support troops and trainers to assist the Iraq military. The Obama administration has also announced plans to move an additional 12,000 American troops to Afghanistan. Both moves have made some of the president's core supporters uneasy, but not Sen. McConnell.

"I want to congratulate him for having the courage given where he started out on that issue to adjust his sails and to pursue a policy in both places essentially set in place by the previous administration," McConnell said, speaking a breakfast meeting with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

In stark contrast, McConnell was highly critical of the president's domestic agenda.

"It's pretty clear he wants to use the fact that we are all frightened to death about the economy to achieve a whole lot of other things that may or may not have any relation whatsoever to how we got into this particular dilemma," McConnell said.

"It's the president's choice whether he wants to govern from the middle or govern on the left," McConnell said. "And I think he's made the call here in the first two months that he wants to take us pretty far to the left. It's his choice. If he will meet us in the middle, he will find an extraordinary level of cooperation. But my members and myself are not going to be signing on to the kind of proposals you've been seeing." ...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/03/mcconnell-i-wan.html

The guy is an idiot.

[snowbear]

1. Who gives a crap what the soft-shell turtle thinks?

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Or ABC News for that matter..

[PretzelWarrior]

2. you mean Granny? He had to fight to win his conservative seat

so maybe he should shut the hell up while he's behind.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. No Mitch, Bush did not know when to cut and run and called other people traitors for saying so

Obama is leaving 35,000-50,000 troops to train a security force so that we can get the fuck out of Iraq and leave it with some reasonable stability. Bush wanted to keep an indefinite amount of troops in for an indefinite amount of time because he was under the impression that we could conquer the damn place.

[vaberella]

4. I wonder if this is true b/c Pres. Obama said to the public we're losing in Afghanistan.

Bush NEVER said we'd lose. He said we would win and I had the distinct impression by Pres. Obama that he'd get us out as quickly as possible because it's not possible to get ahead there.

[jenmito]

5. Ask Mitch how many times OBAMA has called Iraq (OR Afghanistan for that matter) the "War on Terror"!

Answer-never. And Bush was against a timeline in Iraq, for keeping Gitmo open, for saying Iraq had ties to al Qaeda, etc. etc. etc.

[asphalt.jungle]

6. they were against those ideas when he campaigned on them

now they came around to this line of thinking and are claiming they were there all along?