'ISIS is Not Defeated': Lindsey Graham Rips Syria Pullout as 'Huge Obama-Like Mistake'

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Source: Mediaite


by Joe DePaolo | Dec 19th, 2018, 10:52 am

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Following reports that the president is planning a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria (along with his proclamation on Twitter that ISIS has been defeated in Syria) Graham broke from the White House and bashed the move.

“With all due respect, ISIS is not defeated in Syria, Iraq, and after just returning from visiting there — certainly not Afghanistan,” Graham wrote, in a multi-part tweetstorm. The Senator added, “Withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake.”

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In a statement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is defending the move.

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/isis-is-not-defeated-lindsey-graham-rips-syria-pullout-as-huge-obama-like-mistake/

[dlk]

1. When the Commander in Chief is a Draft Dodger...

What did you expect?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. If Obama says something in a forest, and there's no one there to hear him, is he still wrong? NT

[pecosbob]

4. Did Lindsey not get his check this month?

[stopbush]

5. FUCK. YOU. LINDSEY. THE ASSHOLE. GRAHAM.

Obama-like mistake? YOU are a tRump ass-kissing, diarrhea-sniffing mistake.

Fuck you.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Absoutely. I hated when graham said this was an obama like mistake. Perhaps instead of ...

blaming others, you would be better to blame yourselves since you're the ones in power, in both houses and the executive branch. All of them. Blame solely rests on yourselves for the mistakes made in this endeavor, which I think like one poster said in this trend, another will spring up to replace ISIS.

[avebury]

6. It makes absolutely no difference whether or not ISIS is defeated.

Another group will rise up and take its place.

Until the underlying causes that result in the creation of these groups are dealt with, we just change one group for another, and another, and so on. It is a no win scenario and guarantees that we will never get out of the Middle East.

[watoos]

7. I am anything but a hawk.

We don't need 100 military bases all over the world, or is it bases in 100 different countries? We certainly made a big mistake invading Iraq.

Here's the deal with this pull out. The Kurds helped us defeat ISIS, they did most of the fighting. Now Turkey wants to wipe out the Kurds and one thing holding them back are our forces in Syria. It's a damn shame if we desert the Kurds after they helped us. Maybe the Kurds who aren't slaughtered will become terrorists against America?

[apnu]

8. I wonder if Lindsey is regretting swithing to trump

That clown is a Senatorial remora. he attached himself to McCain, and then he attached to Trump. He can't swim the ocean on his own.

[onit2day]

9. Not Obama like, it's Trump like when all his generals, state dept, advisors & allies

are telling him not to. He just wants money for real estate from the Saudi's by abandoning the Kerds who fought side by side with us against ISIS. Erdowon(sp) in Turkey will ride in and slaughter the Kerds as soon as Trump pulls the troops out. It makes no sense. Thomm Hartmann claims it's in response to get Turkey to shut up about Kassaggi murder and Trump can get the loans from the Saudis, he and Kushner, for their hotel deals. Trump is too stupid to have any sense of the subject so you can be sure it's for a personal profit motive as how he justifies this action.

[Polybius]

10. Hmm, I hate to pick sides between two assholes

But gotta support Trump on this one. Graham is a warmonger. We never should have been there to begin with. Pull out.

[watoos]

13. It isn't about Graham v Trump.

Read the post above yours. When we pull out our ally who helped us defeat ISIS is going to get slaughtered.
Turkey will be happy and lay off the Khashoggi murder which will make Trump and Saudi Arabia happy. The Saudis for a long time have bailed Trump out. When Trump's casino went bankrupt they bought his yacht. Who knows how much money they have given him now? Maybe the secret company (bank) is a Saudi bank?

[keithbvadu2]

12. But we control such a large section of Syria.

But we control such a large section of Syria.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/117811385

U.S. troops will now stay in Syria indefinitely, controlling a third of the country and facing peril on many fronts

Story by Liz Sly
Photos by Alice Martins
Dec. 14, 2018

A few thousand U.S. troops in overall control, perhaps indefinitely, of an area comprising nearly a third of Syria, a vast expanse of mostly desert terrain roughly the size of Louisiana

Just how much 'control' can so few have over such a large area?

Or is it just nothingburger bragging rights for empty desert?

[Cold War Spook]

14. We should not have put any troops in the Midle East.

The only reason is oil.

[MineralMan]

15. Putin Is Calling in His Markers.

Trump's just following orders. He just dumped sanctions on two major aluminum plants in Russia, too.

Putin is getting what he wants before Trump has to go. Watch for more of this.

[oberliner]

17. Do you think we should keep troops in Syria?

[oberliner]

16. What is your take? Do you agree with Lindsay Graham?

[Dave Starsky]

18. I'm surprised Lindsey had Trump's cock out of his mouth long enough...

To be able to type something like this.

[SharonClark]

19. K&R

[LenaBaby61]

20. "I'm surprised Lindsey had Trump's cock out of his mouth long enough...

To be able to type something like this."