Tag: Lindsay Graham
Posted on Mon Dec 21, 2015 at 08:08:00 PM EST
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I barely knew he was in the race, but Lindsay Graham today ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for President.
It's time for several other Republicans to follow his lead.
Posted on Mon May 18, 2015 at 11:25:58 AM EST
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Uber-Hawk Lindsay Graham has officially entered the Republican fray to be the party’s nominee for President.
The perennial Henny Penny says, “The world is falling apart.” He’s “worried about an attack on our homeland.” His crystal ball tells him another 9/11 attack is on our doorstep unless we send ground troops to Iraq and Syria.
There are now more than 20 Republicans vying for the nomination. According to the Telegraph,
In recent weeks Republican divisions over foreign policy have been laid bare as the party tries to reconcile its instinctive belief in a strong, indispensable America with the costly failure, in terms of both blood and treasure, of George W Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Lindsey Graham has succeeded Rudy Giuliani as politics' biggest threat to freedom and American values. Even though he has zero chance of winning the nomination, he should be tracked and monitored.
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Posted on Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 06:41:41 PM EST
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Who put Linsday Graham in charge of the Justice Department? Now Graham's insisting on a law authorizing indefinite military detention as a pre-requisite to closing Guantanamo.
While Graham has long favored closing Guantanamo, he said Monday that his support for doing so is contingent on a new law to govern the detention of those the government wants to keep in custody outside the criminal justice system. He also said that, with such a statute in place, he could support Obama’s plan to convert a state prison in Illinois to a federal facility for former Guantanamo inmates.
“I think Thomson, Ill., in the hands of the military, could become a secure location,” he said. “My view is we can start to close Guantanamo only after we reform our laws.”
Marcy says Rahm Emanuel put him in charge.
Back in 2003, Lindsay Graham joined John McCain in asking then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to either try or free the detainees at Guantanamo. Per the New York Times back then: [More...]
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