Posted on 07/17/2007 1:10:06 PM PDT by bnelson44
Senator McCain “get’s it” in regard to the WOT/Iraq - His comments today on the Senate floor are outstanding and he should be given thanks for stepping up and saying such....
Does anyone here think that the Demokratz would not be pulling the same surrender stunt had we concentrated all our efforts and losses in Afghanistan and on the hunt for Obama Bin Biden like they've screeched about for years now? Any war longer that lasts longer than a doobie at a MoveOn.org convention is too long. Any price to defend our freedom is too high for these weak sisters and their leaders Reid, Levin, Leahy, Durbin, Kennedy, Schumer, Clinton, ...pardon me I have to vomit now.
BUMP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19694666/page/3/
SEN. GRAHAM: When they re-enlist in the highest numbers anywhere else in the military, they’re speaking...
SEN. WEBB: You know, this is one thing I really—this is one thing I really take objection to...
SEN. GRAHAM: ...the soldiers are speaking, my friend. Let them win.
SEN. WEBB: ...is politicians who—at the...
SEN. GRAHAM: Let them win.
SEN. WEBB: Politicians who—may I speak?
SEN. GRAHAM: They want to win, let them win.
SEN. WEBB: Is politicians who try to put their political views into the mouths of soldiers. You can look at poll after poll, and the political views of the United States military are no different than the country at large. Go take a look at The New York Times today.
SEN. GRAHAM: The soldiers...
SEN. WEBB: Less than half of the military believes that we should be in Iraq in the first place.
SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq? Have you ever been and talked to them? I’ve been seven times.
SEN. WEBB: You know, have you ever been to these—I’ve been—I’ve covered two wars as a correspondent...
SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq?
SEN. WEBB: I have been to Afghanistan as a journalist.
SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq and—have you been to Iraq and talked to the soldiers?
SEN. WEBB: You know, you haven’t been to Iraq.
SEN. GRAHAM: I’ve been there seven times.
They didn't, but there is a fair amount of evidence (trash with Arabic writing, etc) that the next batch of terrorists has already come across our southern border.
Snowe-job is one of those Greek Americans the Spartans would have ridiculed—a shameful traitorous female.
Either you are serious about defending the nation or you aren’t. He can’t have it both ways. Same goes for any other politician who blubbers on about the WOT while refusing to defend our borders.
Exactly.
I agree with everything up to the last word. She's no female.
If he'd only towed the Conservative Line and not try to be such a suckup to Big Media and the likes of Ted Kennedy, he would have actually had an opportunity to fulfill his dream of being President!
The guy actually thought that working with Democrats and opposing The President would gain him favor with Big Media and get him crossover and moderate voters.
He has only himself to blame!
The Conservative Base did not leave him, he left us!
I liked Lindsey Graham until he called me a racist, it’s ashame he hitched his wagon to that Nut MeCain.
Were it not for McCain-Feingold and his stand on the Immigration/Shamnesty Bill, McCain would still be in the chase.
Depending on what happens between now and January ‘08, I still think there is a chance Johnnie Boy just might pull it off in New Hampshire. We’ll just have to wait and see. I’m no fan of McCain, BTW.
Oh, please. We could put the highest wall on the border and a million troops, and AQ would still get in if they wanted. Hundreds, if not thousands of AQ are getting across the desert from Iran to Iraq today, and we've got the troops and equipment and ability to use deadly force, and it still doesn't stop them.
You can make the argument that it would be a bad idea to invite the entire population of mexico into the US, but the argument that the border is some kind of security threat is just dumb.
The 9/11 terrorists got into the country while the southern border was at it's most porous, but they came in through the front door, international airports.
If there is a border security threat, it's not mexico, it's Canada.
McCain's got his serious faults and supported some dumb stuff. But accusing him of not being serious about defending the nation because he wanted to change the immigration laws is off the mark.
I don’t think any of those 9/11 terrorists came across our southern border.
Straight up.
And therein lies some hypocrisy in the folks who claim their fight about the southern border is because of the fear of terrorists coming over it - Attah and his companion came over the border in my state - and were here a few days before they boarded the plane in Portland.
They spent some time above Portland scoping out Brunswick Naval Air Base - and drinking in local restaurant/bars...even using their credit cards.
Flame me all you want, Johny One Notes, but a lot of the furor and heat over the southern border, while not a peep about the northern border, smacks more of "just don't like Mexicans"
Have fun.
The libRAts played the border issue to the hilt - the masses, even the republicans, took the bait and the eye off the real ball - the WOT. They "taught" the republicans "a Lesson" by letting the devil back in control...all the while, dancing to the devils tune.
I"m not saying the border/illegals aren't a serious problem - but if we don't win the WOT, it isn't going to much matter.
WOT is our first order of business
What's amazing is that all the freepers here who whine about Graham committing "treason" by "hitching his wagon to McCain" and supporting a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens seem to have absolutely no problem when Fred Thompson has the "exact" same record in the Senate and was McCain's best buddy. You point it out to them and instead of screaming "treason" at FDT, they shrug their shoulders and go "nobody's perfect"
Apparently it's only "treasonous" for Lindsey Graham to vote that way.
They might have more credibility if their "outrage" over amnesty and McCain-Feingold was consistent, no matter WHO votes for it.
WOT is our first order of business.
My sentiments E X A C T L Y.
On a “Path to Citizenship” for ILLEGAL Aliens
FRED THOMPSON: I think that you have to realize that you’re either going to drive 12 million people underground permanently, which is not a good solution. You’re going to get them all together and get them out of the country, which is not going to happen. Or you’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship”
REPORT: http://www.latestpolitics.com/blog/2007/05/fred-thompson-no-restrictionist.html
On Republican Leadership in Washington
FRED THOMPSON: “When it comes to personal courage and integrity and the courage to do what he thinks is right, regardless of whether or not it’s particularly popular at the moment, John McCain has shown characteristics of leadership like no one else I’ve ever seen. When it comes to reform of the way Washington does business, John McCain is the leader”
REPORT: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/18/president.2000/thompson.mccain/
This is the guy who has a ton of “true conservative” freepers not only worshipping his Senate “record”, but actively working to promote to leader of the free world.
Let me know when freepers start howling about Fred being a “treasous RINO” and McCain’s homosexual lover, and then I’ll start taking their protests about Lindsey Graham’s seriously.
I'm leaning toward Duncan Hunter.
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