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 [1] to read, and watch, his story.
And speaking of Congress and Iraq, a few ‘moderate’ House Republicans are warning the President [2] 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.