Sen. Graham: "We have turned the corner. The winners will be the Iraqi people."

[sabra]

http://campaignsandelections.com/SC/articles/?ID=608

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., predicts the Iraqi government will soon come together and there will be a breakthrough in the fighting there.

Graham just returned from a two-week tour of duty as a JAG officer, and told SCpols.com he is seeing progress in the war-torn country.

"We have turned the corner," he said. "The winners will be the Iraqi people. The losers will be Al-Qaeda and Iran."

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Graham said he sees success there, and said this is not the time to remove troops. He feels the Iraqi government is on the verge of a "political breakthrough" and that will lead to a safer Iraq.

"The people got a taste of al-Qaeda and they don't like it," he said. "They are ready for peace."

[AlCzervik]

1. i guess he doesn't watch the news.

[Waya]

2. Gawd.......

.........can't they come up with some new lies? Getting damn sick of the same old song...geeeeeez

[Tom Joad]

3. The Iraqis win the day the US military admits defeat.

[cali]

11. No they don't.

As Nir Rosen says, Iraq has already been destroyed. The Iraqis have already lost, and simply the U.S. leaving, won't change that.

[Hydra]

30. Well, apparently there are a few more things left to break

Cuz we're still there killing them.

[Hydra]

4. Blah blah blah

How many years do we have to listen to talking points like this before they get boo'ed off the stage?

[TygrBright]

5. Wow. What color is the sky in HIS world? n/t

[Bongo Prophet]

31. Rumor has it, lavender.

[kenny blankenship]

6. The winners will be the Iraqi people, if any of them survive

[sabra]

10. exactly, 100's of thousand killed, 4+ million left their homes, 60+ % of working class gone

and the winner is... :-(

[rox63]

7. How many corners have we turned?

We've been going in circles for years.

[NewJeffCT]

12. I think it's around 43 corners turned so far

at least.

:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. What type of polyhedron are we drawing out, anyway? Oh wait, I think I know

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/POV-Ray-Dodecahedron.svg

Note all the Pentagons.

[NewJeffCT]

28. pentagons

or pentagrams (those symbols that are supposed to mean summoning demons)

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Come to think of it, all those stars would add a lot more corners to turn.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. PLEASE REPOST THE LINK RE: CRAIG AND GRAHAM

THANKS :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

[Toucano]

9. Is the insurgency in it's last throes?

I've heard that "turn a corner" phrase before. A few hundred times, I think.

"Last throes" hardly gets any play, though.

[shain from kane]

26. Light at the end of the tunnel. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

13. Goober draws a happy face in the burning sand.

How special.

[seemslikeadream]

14. Is he being blackmailed?

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. Let me guess, this is all 6 months away?

[DefenseLawyer]

16. That is one wide fucking turn

We have been turning the same corner for 3 or 4 years. How does that clown live with himself?

[MasonJar]

17. And who would believe you, Senator Graham, after all the lies you have espoused?

[Dr. Death]

18. Two-week tour as a JAGoff is more like it

Or rather a lifelong tour.

[WCGreen]

19. Boy is that Al guy busy...

He's all over the place causing havoc for 'merica...

It's so nice to see that Senator Graham could take out time to play Army and "serve" in Iraq for two whole weeks as a JAG officer...

I guess it's was all done so he can call his little ol' prissy self a Iraq War Vet when he hit's the stump next year...

Jesus Christ can he be any more obvious...

[KaptBunnyPants]

20. Good. That will make an excellent op-ad in the 2008 election.

I hope the rest of the Republican "moderates" are so prone to saying factually unsupportable and politically suicidal statements. And a 2 week tour of duty? How come all the other soldiers in Iraq have to stay for 15 months while this douche calls himself a Iraq War vet after 2 weeks.

[mitchum]

21. Gomer just loves to sing..."to dream the impossible dream..."

[Webster Green]

22. Has he ever said anything that made sense?

I've never seen it.

[TwilightGardener]

23. Nothing makes you feel like a winner like bombs, gunfire and cholera.

[Justitia]

24. "Turned the corner"? What's next? A "light at the end of the tunnel"?

Do these morons even realize they are recycling Vietnam propaganda or are they so hard-wired for bullshit they haven't noticed?

Next up: the "Domino Theory"

[truebrit71]

25. Sen Graham thanks his lucky stars he declined Sen Craig's invitation to Minn/St Paul....

...Guy is seriously deluded....

[tekisui]

29. How many corners does Iraq have?

I think we've been around the entire block a time or two. And all that progress has got to add up to something.....right?

[Disturbed]

34. If al Q left Iraq today the country would be at peace.

Is that the lie that this jerk off wants Americans to buy?

Al Q is a tiny % of the problems in Iraq. The Sunnis have turned against al Q. The US Regime is giving them weapons & money to fight al Q. When al Q is defeated the Sunni Insurgency will once again turn their attention to the Shi'ite dominated Govt. & the US Occupiers with more weaponry than they had before.

Graham is full of shit!

[GeorgeGist]

33. Wierd

"The people got a taste of al-Qaeda and they don't like it," he said. "They are ready for peace."

[sabra]

35. and disgusting

[bdamomma]

36. how much more can these thugs spew up.

we are ethic cleansing Iraq, and pushing them out of their country. sickening and shameful, a country that did not do one thing to us.