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Lindsey Graham says GOP opposed Libya mission because Obama was president
McClatchy ^ | 2011-10-25 | William Douglas

Posted on 10/25/2011 2:38:35 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hailed the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Thursday but chastised Congress for its hesitance to assist anti-Gadhafi Libyan rebels and for criticizing President Barack Obama’s use of U.S. military resources to assist in air strikes.

“I’m very disappointed in Congress,” said Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Congress took an irrational view of the War Powers Act. I guarantee you that a lot Republicans who wanted the War Power Act invoked would not have asked for it to be invoked if President Obama were not president. To me, national security should be as bipartisan as possible.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: lindseygraham; rino
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To: rabscuttle385

Not only is Lindsey one of the biggest rinos on the planet, he is in favor of Sharia law and the Muslim brotherhood it seems. Please Lindsey.....stfu, please.


41 posted on 10/25/2011 3:11:11 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: rabscuttle385
Maybe it was because we couldn't see any reason to take out the terroriest SOB that we knew just to replace him with another terrrist SOB that we didn't know?
42 posted on 10/25/2011 3:11:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: rabscuttle385

"Thank you voters of South Carolina. At last my life has meaning. Let's make fudge."

43 posted on 10/25/2011 3:13:32 PM PDT by IbJensen (The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them.)
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To: rabscuttle385
“The world is changing around us,” Graham continued. “There’s a revolutionary changing around us. There’s a revolutionary change in the Middle East where women are driving in Saudi Arabia, Gadhafi is dead, Syria is on the ropes. We need to get involved, they're about to have their first free and fair, I hope, election in 6,000 years in Egypt.” It seems he also believes in unicorns as well with this statement.
44 posted on 10/25/2011 3:13:43 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: rabscuttle385

45 posted on 10/25/2011 3:13:48 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ColdOne

Miss Lindsey is living in a world of make believe, with flowers, and bells, and leprechauns, and magic frogs with funny little hats.


46 posted on 10/25/2011 3:16:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rabscuttle385

Let’s say Lindsay is correct that the GOP opposed the Libya mission because Obama was president.

That doesn’t mean their opposition was irrational nor merely political.

If the Commander-in-Chief is a doofus and untrustworthy in both word or deed, if you love this country, you’d better find any way you can to keep him from getting him, and the country, further in over its head.

IOW, if you think the POTUS is incompetent, DOH. You try to keep him out of wars and such as much as possible. This is not being political. It is doing your job to provide a check on dangerous bumblers in the White House.

Graham is not very bright. And your jawboning in this regard is not helpful. In fact, quite the opposite.


47 posted on 10/25/2011 3:18:01 PM PDT by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: avacado
He’s such a little snitch!

Do ya' think he might, periodically, suffer from PMS.

Couldn't pass up the pun...sorry.

48 posted on 10/25/2011 3:30:28 PM PDT by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
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To: Psalm 144

Did he and the left also hailed the fact that old Moammar was sodomized with a broom handle? Or did they like the way Gadhafi was shot without a trail?
I have no love for Moammar, but the fact our”Allies” in this civil war has acted like savages and there is little or no outcry is apalling?


49 posted on 10/25/2011 3:30:46 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: rabscuttle385

How long are the people in South Carolina going to put up with “Light in the Loafers” Lindsay?


50 posted on 10/25/2011 3:31:27 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: rabscuttle385

As much crap as Scott Brown gets(and a lot of it is deserved) this poofter is worse. Much worse....


51 posted on 10/25/2011 3:32:16 PM PDT by GQuagmire ('Don't Piss The Lady Off'...)
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To: rabscuttle385

As Ann Barnhardt said: Hey Lindsey, you jackass.


52 posted on 10/25/2011 3:34:17 PM PDT by farmguy
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To: rabscuttle385

"Lindsey...I know you're in here somewhere!"

53 posted on 10/25/2011 3:34:56 PM PDT by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
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To: rabscuttle385

The fall cotillion season must be over. Lind-shay, GFY.


54 posted on 10/25/2011 3:36:53 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: rabscuttle385

I agree with him.

I’m very disappointed with Congress too.

All the Leftists and Rinos need to be retired.

I’m especially disappointed with this man from CONGRESS - Lindsey Grandma.


55 posted on 10/25/2011 3:46:57 PM PDT by Eldon Tyrell
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To: rabscuttle385

“Ms” Graham (is that the weight if “her” brain?) should understand that sometimes we oppose aiding maniacs fighting maniacs because we don’t care who wins.


56 posted on 10/25/2011 3:48:03 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: rabscuttle385

This outspoken, Biden-variety idiot is very likely going to have a leadership position in a GOP senate unless someone can stop him.


57 posted on 10/25/2011 3:50:23 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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STOP!

And Support Free Republic

58 posted on 10/25/2011 3:50:34 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385

OK - I dislike Lindsay Graham immensely and think Obama is determined to reshape this country as a socialist nation with an all-powerful central government..... BUT

Graham is right on this one - If a Republican president had done this, how many on FR would be celebrating the “success” in Libya?


59 posted on 10/25/2011 3:52:39 PM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9
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To: rabscuttle385

Keep it up Graham, a lot of people in the GOP have been “very disappointed” in you for a long time, and you just gave them another reason to not like you even more.

Keep it up and your next primary becomes more risky for you.


60 posted on 10/25/2011 3:53:23 PM PDT by Wuli
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