Sen. Graham Returns From Iraq With Renewed Hopes

[Purveyor]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — While some Republican senators break with President Bush over Iraq, Sen. Lindsey Graham has returned from his seventh wartime visit there with renewed hope that the U.S. troop buildup is producing results.

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At the same time, the South Carolina Republican told Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and other Iraqi leaders that they've made too little progress on steps such as reconciling the country's warring factions and sharing oil revenues among Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds.

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In contrast with the stalled political progress, Graham said, the surge — the dispatch of 30,000 more U.S. troops that Bush began in January — is yielding clear results.

"The military part of the surge is working beyond my expectations," Graham said. "We literally have the enemy on the run. The Sunni part of Iraq has really rejected al Qaida all over the country. We're getting more information about al Qaida operations than we've ever received."



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/17664.html

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You just can't "make this stuff up"...

[monktonman]

1. Ok time to go home now

[whistle]

2. Lindsey graham must have been wearing blinders

[Demeter]

3. It Was the Drugs from Afghanistan

must have given him a deluxe assortment!

[Liberal Lassie]

20. How many times and how many ways do I have to state this?

On 3 other forums I told my sad tale of spending the past 6 weeks visiting a repug dear friend who is so thoroughly BRAINWASHED that she can't even think her way out of a paper bag anymore. It kills me because I have known her for 35+ years.

Every word out of her mouth was total nonsense and the reason why is because of the guy I love to hate: Pat Robertson. This guy is downright
DANGEROUS people! I am a Christian,however, the Christian right is so damn nuts that this pie in the sky attitude is like a disease. You should strengthen your stomach for just an hour and listen to what he actually tells people to think on his show. You would understand guys like the senator a lot better. You would see the difference between willfully saying this stuff to support shrub and true BRAINWASHIG. This guy seems to BELIEVE what he is saying.

This Sen. Lindsey Graham sounds exactly like a brainwashed puppet and it is so strange to hear the same crap coming out of the mouth of another person. He has been brainwashed somewhere by somebody and is now just a talking head. Only a moron or a brainwashed Christian could make stupid statements like this a believe his own baloney.

Sorry--I had to say this. I lost my friend somewhere along the line and her brain isn't her own anymore. I sincerely think that millions are being brainwashed by the pulpit. I still love God but hopefully I won't lose my sense of discernment and outrage.

[OnyxCollie]

25. I believe the Senator,

like Pat Robertson, is one of the brainwashers, if only at an acolyte level.

[pokercat999]

35. "I still love god", seems to me brainwashing is just........

A MATTER OF DEGREE!

"Brainwashed" and "Christian" are two peas in the same pod.

[bluestateguy]

4. Will his new idea be to send the illegal immigrants to Iraq on a "guest worker" program?

nt

[pinto]

24. Ouch.

:evilgrin:

[Benhurst]

5. "Shop 'til You Drop" Lindsey must have gotten some good bargains on his trip.

What a twit.

[City Lights]

14. I was thinking the same thing.

How many cheap rugs does one senator need? Wonder if he's sellin' his cheap Iraqi goods for profit via eBay. ;-)

[neuvocat]

6. And he was supposed to be such a "maverick" like McCain.

Actually that says it all right there.

[rodeodance]

17. He is pure military (He IS military)

[old guy]

7. No you certainly can't

Actually, he had the report made out before he left just in case he didn't have time to do it while there. Such a wonderful place to vacation and all.

[Va Lefty]

8. "We literally have the enemy on the run."

Yeah, I'm buying that. What a f*****g tool.

[msongs]

9. al queda wasnt even here until after our invasion and occupation Mr. Graham nt

[Fridays Child]

10. Known as the Rural Indiana Farmers' Market Effect, GOP members of Congress...

...have been returning from Iraq convinced the country is so uplifted by American occupation that daisies are literally sprouting in the streets. With the exception of Joe Lieberman, this condition is not known to affect non-Republicans.

"It's just nothing short of fabulous over there," exclaims Lindsey Graham. "I don't know why we would ever want to pull out," adds John McCain.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Why do we care so much about their oil sharing laws?

Isn't that an Iraqi internal matter? We have no interest on that, do we?

[Hulk]

12. Too funny for words....

I'm sorry. Does anyone take this shill buffoon for real? Is he NOT up for re-election, so he's going to swing hard to the flag waving right to keep this mess going, while the other "up for re-election types" can say they want out...and the war will continue until every last f*cking dollar is squeezed into halliburton's piggy bank?

Go to hell Linsay.

[jaysunb]

13. Poor conflicted asshole....

:evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

15. well......the military part has worked to some degree-its the Iraqi gov. that

is stalled.

[rodeodance]

16. these recent headlines tell me otherwise Mr. G.

Recent Iraq Headlines

* · Sen. Graham returns from Iraq with renewed hopes
* · 10-foot-deep trench will protect Iraqi city of Karbala
* · Curfews imposed in 2 Iraqi towns as violence surges
* · Oil law still snagged in Iraq parliament

[mitchum]

18. Thus Spake Gomer

[Klukie]

19. I'll bet that ole Lindsey had a boner the whole time he was in Iraq

[Mz Pip]

21. Yay! We won!

:bounce:

Can we go home now?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[nealmhughes]

22. I prefer to term Senator L. Graham "Aunt Fancy" as A. Jackson did James Buchanan.

But that is neither here nor there, he came, he shopped, he hobnobbed with the brass. Big effing deal, Aunt Fancy. Did you drop by the morgue? Did anyone invite you in for tea? Oh, wait, it's too freaking dangerous to go into civilians' homes because they freaking hate us for destroying their country and enabling their civil war(s).

[quiet.american]

23. What can I say? He's "Graham Crackers."

This guy is nuts and an utter disgrace.

[emilyg]

26. It's the late hour

I read it as Returns with Renewed Herpes sorry

[rodeodance]

27. Military: 6 U.S. troops killed in Iraq (they are on the run as our troops die)

Forum Name Latest Breaking News
Topic subject Military: 6 U.S. troops killed in Iraq
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2907377#2907377
2907377, Military: 6 U.S. troops killed in Iraq
Posted by rodeodance on Sat Jul-07-07 12:19 AM

Source: qp



Military: 6 U.S. troops killed in Iraq

1 hour, 35 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military Saturday announced the deaths of six more American service members in combat operations in Iraq, most of them in the Baghdad area.

Two soldiers died Friday and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in east Baghdad, the military said.

A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed Friday when an explosively formed penetrator exploded near their patrol in southeastern Baghdad, the military said. Three soldiers were wounded.

Explosively formed penetrators are high-tech bombs that the U.S. believes are provided by Iran. The Iranians deny the charge.

Three other service members were killed Thursday — two Marines in western Anbar province and a soldier in Baghdad, the command said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_casualties

[rodeodance]

28. Suicide bomber kills 26 in Iraqi village AP

World News
# Suicide bomber kills 26 in Iraqi village AP

[trof]

29. "enemy on the run" Is that like "last throes"?

:eyes:

[Speaker]

36. Yep

Nothing left but a few "dead enders."

Poor Lindsey is probably the first, second, and third dumbest sonsabitches we have in public service.

[tanyev]

30. He bought more rugs and got all of his Christmas shopping done for this year!

That makes one feel hopeful.

[Le Taz Hot]

31. Really, Lindsdy?

And yet, our soldiers who have managed to finally make it home after serving 3 and 4 tours over there are telling a completely different story. Now, who should I believe?

[FlaGranny]

32. I wonder what

Graham did in Iraq. I'd like to ask him whether he had meetings with the brass or whether he went out on patrols with soldiers.

[durtee librul]

33. Lindsey probably had high tea with

Jeff Gannon - another military expert.

[daleo]

34. Is this man insane?

If he really believes this, he belongs in a sanitarium.

[onager]

37. He's already in a sanitarium, being a Sen. from SC...

I'm also a native of South Carolina.

Way back when I was just a wee redneck in elementary school, we had a mandatory course in South Carolina state history.

A newspaper editor summed up the whole state forevermore, when South Carolina was debating secession in 1860:

"South Carolina. Too small to be a nation, and too big to be an insane asylum."

[daleo]

38. It's a wicked bon mot

Of course it could apply to a lot of places...

[David Zephyr]

39. Lindsey Graham: South Carolina's most famous homosexual.

Lindsey Graham gives me belly laughs everytime he appears in the news. He and David Dreier.