Matt Gunterman December 7th, 2007

Yeah. Read what TalkingPointsMemo has on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) below from the Grayson County News Gazette

Let’s follow the crazy logic of Sen. McConnell here. So, if you are a laborer for a construction company and the CEO of that company decides to borrow unimaginable sums of money to build a skyscraper in the middle of the desert and that CEO doesn’t provide you the proper tools and materials you need to do the job and all around you are hostile natives who are killing your fellow laborers because they don’t want the skyscraper there, is it your fault as an employee that you’re in the middle of such a mess or is it the CEOs? I’d say it’s the CEO because he’s obviously lost his marbles?

But the CEO’s defenders would likely argue that the employee ultimately bears the responsibility because he or she could simply walk away from the job. Of course, it’s not so simple in the military, but the CEO’s defenders would counter that soldiers knew the terms of their contract when they signed on for duty.

So, in the end, we have soldiers being put in danger by a crazy president. Who’s responsibility is it to protect the soldiers from the actions of a crazy president? I’d say that the responsibility rests with Congress. The voters themselves can’t do anything directly about it until the next presidential election, and they did what they could in 2006 by putting Democrats in control of both the House and Senate.

And Mitch McConnell’s right there to stop the Democrats’s efforts to protect our troops every step of the way in the effort. And how does he rationalize his actions?

He essentially says to the soldiers: Hey, you guys, you should have thought about the possibility of a nut-case president before you signed on the dotted line; now die for your naivety!

GOP Senate Leader McConnell Appears To Belittle Deaths Of American Troops
By Greg Sargen

Uh oh — looks like GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has got a problem on his hands. Check out what he said about the death of American troops in Iraq in a meeting with constituents this week, according to Kentucky’s Grayson County News-Gazette:

“Unfortunately, most of our friends on the other isle are having a hard time admitting things are getting better; some days I almost think the critics of this war don’t want us to win. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.”

It’s hard to read this as anything but belittling the importance of the deaths of troops because they’re “professional soldiers.” What McConnell is basically saying here is, “hey, they signed up for this.”

Maybe someone should get clarification from McConnell on this.

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