Sen. (R-SC) Lindsey Graham on Iraq Withdrawal: Obama 'Failed'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says President Barack Obama has made a "serious mistake" by planning to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of the year.
"I think in the last year he has made some very poor, dangerous foreign policy decisions at the strategic level," Graham told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. "I would argue that Iraq and Afghanistan is being run out of Chicago -- not Washington -- in terms of decisions."
"What about the argument that in the last six months, bin Laden is gone, al-Awlaki is gone and now Gaddafi is gone?" Wallace asked.
"I give him credit for making good tactical decisions, killing bin Laden," Graham admitted. "Not being able to close the deal in Iraq is a very serious mistake. Celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake... He's put in question our success in Afghanistan and he ended Iraq poorly. He fumbled the ball inside of the ten. I hope I'm wrong about what happens in Iraq, but they are dancing in the streets in Tehran."
"This was a failure by the Obama administration to close the deal. The military commander said we needed 15,000 to 18,000 [troops in Iraq]. We have none. So, that's the bottom line here. At a time when we need troops in Iraq to secure the place against intervention by Iran and the bad actors in the region, we're going to go into 2012 with none. It was his job, the Obama administration's job to end this well. They failed."
John Amato:
The serious mistake was invading Iraq in the first place. Why is Goober Graham on my teevee, again after saying that the GOP opposed the Libya mission because Obama was president? Qaddafi was captured for like an hour when when Lindsey was drooling over how much money we could make off their oil and resources.
I'm no fan of these wars and deaths and drones and military tribunals, but if you're a right winger or Independent, you should be thrilled with the president's actions so far in national security, so these phony attacks really come off as being very petty. The troops had to leave because the Iraq government wanted them out. And the American people are clearly against both wars so I ask, why is Graham on my TV? There's nobody else that wants to do interviews?
..Iraq will prove to be the single event that forever marks George W. Bush the worst president in American history, yet according to this yokel, Obama will bearing the brunt of the Iraq fuckup & not Bush?
This is right up there with Michelle Bachmann claiming that if she were president, she would prove her national security strength by allowing Gadaffi to live.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
lindsey like the rest of the gop/teabaggers
after 10 yrs of a fucking illegal war in iraq
can just go FUCK THEMSELVES.
of course. In other news, Graham states war is peace, up is down, black is white...
me-oww!
Lindsay once again disappointed 'cause someone pulled out too early.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
can just go and hold my stones; Oops, figuratively speaking, he might really want to.
Always smooth.
Only in his mouth.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
JA: The troops had to leave because the Iraq government wanted them out.
Lindsay: Needs more
negotiationbombing."Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
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Sounds like a win win to me. I'm happy and the Iraqis are happy.
He's implying that Iran is happy because they are free to invade/take over Iraq.
The alternative is McCain's solution of staying there forever.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
don't remember a million people crying in the streets after 911....
crying for America....
The fun thing is to remind them who invaded who back in 1980.....
The northern alliance win. Woo. Go Pakistan
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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All US troops to pull out of Iraq by 2011
Jay Deshmukh in Baghdad
August 23, 2008<------------???
My favorite take on the issue is Jonathon Steele's:
The Iraq war is finally over. And it marks a complete neocon defeat
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
But the neocons' biggest defeat is that, thanks to Bush's toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iran's greatest enemy, Tehran's influence in Iraq is much stronger today than is America's.
Well-done, georgie boy...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
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The place was secured against Iran when Saddam was there. Anybody that would be in power Goober and his ilk would think should be taken out.... unless it is Obama doing the taking out. Have I told you that I hate these assholes?
Lindsay has American and Iraqi blood on his hands. He's a traitor. All I want to hear out of his mouth is whether he wants a cigarette and a blindfold.
Bastard.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
WTF is that supposed to mean? If it was being run out of Chicago it would have been DONE in a week. By union employees. I doubt Missy Graham (R-DADT) only knows about his own prissy ass being run out of Chicago.
The failure here is that Lindsey even has the ability to voice his opinion given he has zero credibilty when it comes to foreign affairs.
Recovered believer of myth that no government is better than no government.
The GOP has zero credibility.
They continue to show us how
biased and short sighted they
are on any and all policy.
The second Obama term
(once the GOP fails, again)
is when all the fixes should
start to show.
Blame the Democrats for their Mess up and double down on that blame when the Democrat finally clean up the Mess.
He's on your tv because you're watching Fox "News". I would expect nothing less from them. I'm sure it's just the beginning of their anti-Obama national security narrative that they'll be shoving down their followers' throats for the next year. They're pathetic.
All the GOP wankers getting their panties in a twist over Iraq fearing Iran will invade.
We hold Iran's right flank with Afghanistan, and with the new found mineral deposits we are going to stay.
They know we would fuck them up if they messed with Iraq, because we are crazy like that.
So they will do nothing. Once the "old guard" starts dieing off the youth will hold power and they are pro-West.
Getting out of Iraq, wasn’t just a Foreign Policy coup, it was a Domestic Policy promise and a
Promise to Voter KEPT.
won’t forget it, it shows Obama doing what he promised and frees $Billions$ of dollars up, to use for JOBS, not only for the unemployed, but for Veterans coming home. The pressure is mounting on Republicans, to compromise and get Jobs done.
Obama and Democrats are building momentum, for the elections and Republicans are deflating, looking like OBSTRUCTIONIST and losing ground… they never had and can ill afford to lose, even the Republican candidates are at a lost to respond, but with failed rhetoric.
Obama just has to keep ground pounding and swaying Public Opinion and looking better and better. With every No and every VOTE no, more and more, “do nothing” by Republicans they look like the BROKEN Wheel in Congress and the Nation.
Polls are being justified by Democrats and the Nation, on both sides keeps the Democrats and Obama looking better and better, as the only choice. When the Nation is polling for Jobs and raising Taxes on the top 1% and the Polling Nation, see’s Obama, pushing for Jobs and what the majority wants done, Republican Obstruction is re-in-enforcing Obama and there Polling in Obama’s favor.
Ministerbruce
for Butters. They've been dancing in the streets in Tehran since 2003.
What more do you expect from a bigotted cracker? Personally, I would be most happy to see the confederacy secede once again only this time, let 'em!
Having served in Vietnam, I could see this one coming a mile away.
Just as with Vietnam, there was no winning this one.
Stay and Obama would criticize by one side of the GOP. Leave and the other side goes after you.
Total horse manure. So why is it that Bush and company tried to take credit for the killing of OBL, but when it comes to leaving it's Obama's fault?
To people like Iraq war cheerleader Lindsay Graham, "closing the deal" means an open-ended commitment to a country with no sovereignty.
A defacto colony that "contractors" can continue to exploit.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
You'd think it would kill a TV interviewer to ask Lindsay "Just exactly what do you mean when you say close the deal?" Yeh I know, follow-up questions to GOP hot air spewers never get asked. Never. Closing the deal is either an endless commitment or nuking the whole place to glass. Those seem to be the two options that GOP foreign policy favors.
You'd get that question, if the media wasn't run by the CIA and religious fanatic oligrachs.
Closing the deal - for the republicans it means establishing a Christian plutocracy - a base in the ME. They are crusaders. They wanted, and expected a permanent annexing of Iraq - a 51st state. It's in the PNAC manifesto. There was no intention by republicans of leaving, ever.
Which, BTW, they lied about each and every day, even after every thinking person could see they were lying, and had no intention of leaving. Pathological lying with a purpose.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Lindsey Graham, you Kochsucker.
WikiLeaks cables and the Iraq War
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cab...
far left loon >.<
Every invasion and occupation has to come to an end.
Regardless of what happens next, it was inevitable, because of the recklessness of bush and cheney.
What this useless tool won't admit is that this was inevitable since the day bush invaded and occupied Iraq.
When you do something stupid, like invading Iraq, you have to pay the piper.
Perhaps this shill is suggesting we should have annexed Iraq - made them the 51st state?
Face it Lindsey, your PNAC dream was a tragic failure, and this is just another tragic chapter in that failed dream. With a little luck it will be the last chapter, but it will always be your failure.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Then the 65 year occupation of Germany and Japan and 58 years in South Korea should be over shortly.
Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here
Like what this Anti American corporate OWNED RACIST ASS WIPE republican has any thing of value to say.
Fact it took a ELECTED President to do what the corporate OWNED RACIST republicans couldn't or wouldn't do.
These humps are complaining because as COWARDS and TRAITORS it is better to misdirect and point fingers, then it is to stand up and take credit for the FAILURES when the Bozos where in charge.,
One very, very important question, WHY? isn't any of the stories reporting that it was on the FAILED and corporate OWNED RACIST republican watch this Country was ALLOWED to be ATTACKED.
Why? aren't the FAILED policies of the corporate OWNED RACIST republicans being compared to their present day FAILURE to take care of AMERICA.. They FAILED the LAST time, THEY were Failures then and they are FAILURE NOW, it is the DO NOTHING party of corporate OWNED RACIST republicans.
Graham cracker calling people "bad actors"? Pot meet kettle.
99%
Republicans love expensive wars and war profiteering.
This is not my father's America
Lindsey Graham needs an enema. STAT.
We invaded Iraq and all we got was this lousy $700m embassy covering 104 acres on prime riverfront real estate in downtown Baghdad with 5,000 personnel. It's like we practically won't be there.
less chance of Blowback in the next generation to come....
A term of course that the Neocons, do not understand or acknowledge.
The lobbying power of the war corps though, must be in full swing....
"Not being able to close the deal in Iraq is a very serious mistake. Celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake... He's put in question our success in Afghanistan and he ended Iraq poorly."
The first thing I would point out is, the exit of American troops was negotiated by G.W. Bush. Second, the success in Afghanistan was put in question when we put that war on hold in order to invade Iraq. We should have finished the job and gotten out of Afghanistan. Instead, we allowed the Taliban to recoup.
And the other criticism I hear generally from Republicans is that American influence will wane while Iran's influence will grow. Ownership of that issue belongs to those who thought it was a bright idea to replace Iraq's Sunni leadership and replace it with a Shiite government. Remember, Iran is Shiite. It is this circumstance, along with some others, that convinces me that our Middle East activities never were intended to stop with Iraq. As it stands now, in taking out Saddam, we neutralized an Iranian national security threat at a cost of a trillion dollars. And I don't think these buffoons that started the Iraq war are happy about that. That's why I think they want war with oil rich Iran. They want that oil pumped under a more friendly government.
I think they truly believed in their cakewalk war, in that it would take 6 days, or perhaps 6 weeks, but doubtful it would take 6 months. I think if that scenareo had taken place, we would have gone to war with Iran. What Lindsey Graham laments about (I think) is that we should stay in Iraq until some pretense can be devised to go to war with Iran, and replace that government with a one more friendly with the west.
The result of being closeted for too long
Reality has a liberal bias
Dancing in the streets in Tehran??? I'm not even sure that's legal.
Yes what will Haliburton do after all thats why we went to war
Let's see if I have this right?
GOP platform for 2012, or, the Teabircher Maneifesto:
1. More war, endless war, forever war, then let private cronies rebuild said countries.
2. Fuck the unemployed; it's their own damn fault. They should strive to be like banksters who work hard.
3. Fuck anyone who isn't a christianista nutjob.
4. Fuck anybody who has more skin pigment than Barbara Bush.
5. Fuck the latinos. See above #4.
6. To hell with the children. They don't need no educatin' to work at Wal Mart's anyhow.
7. Destroy the unions. Otherwise, before you know it, people are making a living wage and think they should have the same rights to happiness and liberty as the millionaires. The nerve!
8. Outlaw all abortion, so the fetuses' can starve to death in the streets after the GOP eliminates ALL social safety nets except for millionaire bailouts.
9. In order to save money, eliminate all courts except for the SCOTUS, where the Robert's five will remove personhood from individuals in order to clarify their Citizen's United ruling.
10. Deregulate everything, so that the morally omnipotent corporations can look out for our well being.
11. Privatize SS.
12. Give vouchers for Medicare.
13. Repeal Obama care and replace it with nothing.
14. Emit more burned fossil fuels (out of spite) to prove the scientists don't know what they are talking about.
15. Eliminate all taxes on millionaires, by raising taxes on everyone else. This will enable those wonderful job creators to create more american jobs - in China.
16. Privatize everything, because that will make it better. everything is better when some billionaire owns it, because......., well..., they are billionaires.
Amazingly, this platform will still win them most of the south and the midwestern imbecile vote.
Oh, and many of my unemployed or struggling in-laws also.
Sigh!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
1.) Lets get rid of the EPA, increasing pollution and cancer.
2.) People who don't have health insurance shouldn't get treatment, because health care is a privilege and not a right.
3.) Let's get rid of minimum wage and have a 3rd world workforce here in this country comparable to 3rd world workforces abroad.
Thanks.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
On #8: Outlaw all abortion, so the fetuses' can starve to death in the streets after the GOP eliminates ALL social safety nets except for millionaire bailouts. Besides, where else are we going to get the millions we need to serve as zero value cannon fodder in our future wars-without-end-amen?
17: Change the name of the USof A to the Plutotocracy of Jesusland.
Send your list to the in-laws.
far left loon >.<
After losing 50K plus American lives they thought we needed to stay in there a keep fighting forever. The Iraq war was a very costly mistake. Republicans will never ever admit it.
idiots on the right...They are being called out more daily...Just write, call, email and protest them everyday!
They are running scared!
How can he have failed?
it was mission accomplished after six weeks, according to Bush!
he was the one that signed the deal with the Iraqis for the withdraw date in any case...?
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