A group of Republican lawmakers warned President George W. Bush this week at a private White House meeting that conditions in Iraq must improve quickly or he will lose more support from his own party, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Eleven moderate House Republicans were unusually candid with Bush in a meeting that lasted more than an hour, telling him public support for the war was crumbling in their swing districts, the Times said, sighting participants in the Tuesday session.
NBC Nightly News quoted an unnamed participant in the meeting as saying that they had an "unvarnished conversation" with Bush about the war.
The delegation, headed by Mark Kirk of Illinois and Charles Dent of Pennsylvania, told Bush: "We need candor. We need honesty," and that the White House had lost its credibility on the war, NBC reported.
You know the Republicans have so little credibility with me that I don't even know if I should trust that this is genuine or not.
Even if it really means that moderate Republicans are finally going to join the Democrats is holding Bush responsible for Iraq it still means they sat on their ass while this thing went on and did nothing until they felt pressured politically to act.
I see no ethical courage here.
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