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Audacity of Truth
Senator/Col. Lindsey Graham
Check out this interesting story on Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) visit to Baghdad last month. Little did we know that after Senator McCain – who was with him for the first part of the tour – left to go back home, Graham staid behind, donned fatigues for about 8 days, and became “Col. Graham”:
“I spent about eight days in Iraq, after Sen. McCain left, as Col. Graham,” he told CBS News Capitol hill correspondent Sharyl Attkisson in an exclusive interview.
Never before has a U.S. senator served active duty in Iraq. Graham, R-S.C., wore fatigues and a sidearm and was assigned to the new Rule of Law Task Force.
“The one thing I learned about the surge is that the military part of it — knocking down doors and shooting al Qaeda and arresting extremists — is part of it but not all of it,” he said. “There is a surge going on on the law front.”
As a lawyer who’s served in the Air Force, and in the Guard and Reserves for 25 years, Graham brought his legal expertise to a place where Saddam Hussein and his henchmen played judge, jury and executioner. Graham counseled the Iraqis on how different their courts must be now.
Click here to read, and watch, his story.
And speaking of Congress and Iraq, a few ‘moderate’ House Republicans are warning the President that they need to see positive results in Iraq – and soon.
Of course. There’s an election coming up, and these ‘moderates’ surely don’t want a failure in Iraq on their hands. But what these ‘moderates’ don’t seem to understand is that if they abandon the President on Iraq, they are virtually ensuring that failure.
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A well done to the Colonel.
Sen. Graham just has to be one of the most effective Senators among the 100.
What the Democrats Really Think of the Troops
Disprove that image, Democrat hacks.
Just what we need in Iraq…more lawyers.
As a member of the Gang of 14 and McCain-Feingold contributor, Senator Graham is unfit to protect the Constitution. This photo op.
On the other hand….not to sound quite so harsh on the RINO, Senator Graham did co-sponsor and amendment to 1591 that would remove the troop withdraw timetable. The amendment failed with the help of Senator Hagel.
The House Republicans were led by Representative Charles W. Dent, the representative from Pennsylvania. You know, the place the NJ Jihadi yutes were training to kill our soldiers.
Mekan, given the judical system Iraq was operating under, it makes sense that he would lend his expertise. Our system is far from perfect but it’s vastly superior to what they had. I just wish that the GOP would grow a flipping spine and start to stand up to the demoncrats.
Brother, you hit the nail on the head with that one. More lawyers is exactly what Iraq needs, along with Judges, cops, and correction officers.
tommy in nyc, its easy to say you haved served, kinda like all the folks who call Washington Journal and claim to be soldiers who hate the war and Bush and Republicans who hate Bush and say they were lied to.
If you were in the military my hats off to you but I’d like proof, I’d like to see a picture of you near Iraq, I’m kinda suspiscious (sp).
Yeah, hold your breath for that tommy.
PCD will apologize when you stop smoking pot, how about that?
I served, not in wartime, but I served. When I served It was with many Democrats. Some of those Democrats were very liberal, socially and fiscally. None of those that served, Democrat or other, that would approve of what Congress is doing right now.
Would some want to have never gone to Iraq? Yep. Would some think they should be pulled from Iraq now? Yep. That is true no matter what the party affiliation. But the military is a brother/sisterhood and above all else they care about eachother. The funding issue is hurting their brothers and sisters.
Another thing I need to say here. There are three types of soldier in the Army. I only know the Army, but assume it is the same for the other services. There is the civilian in uniform trying to get benifits and better their lives. There is the politician, joining to update their resume. Finally, there is the warrior, the true soldier. I was a civilian in uniform. I wanted to be the true warrior, but I could not dedicate myself as a warrior must. Above all else, our soldiers are Americans from all walks and political makeup that exists in America.
All soldiers in the combat zone are now warriors, no matter how they started. Those that have joined and re-uped are true warriors. I know I owe them all my admiration, love, and support.
Tommy, you know nothing and contine to know nothing. You know what you get when you let E4s and E5s run the country? Let me remind you of a few where that happened. 1930s Germany, Uganda under Idi Amin, and Lybia under self promoted Col. Khaddafi.
Why don’t you try to go to Cuba or Zimbabwe and sit on your dupa and just smoke pot all day? Leave the world to the adults.
So you have to be E6 and above to serve in government leadership? Or do you need to be declared a gentleman by Congress before you are smart enough to be elected to leadership?
PCD, you are not winning a friend here. Not all E4’s grow up to be hitler you know.
Mekan, right, an not all enlisted try to make command decisions or write policy either. The history with Tommy is that he was a radioman who never expanded his horizons and never commanded anything, yet he knows how to run everything. How many unit cancers like that have you run across?
PCD had a specific example of a nutroots ex-GI in mind Mekan, he wasn’t making a blanket condemnation of lower ranking NCOs. But I see he’s already clarified. The person in question would be at best a civilian in uniform, on his good, sober days, on other days I think he’d be considered a liability at best.