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Lindsey Graham Wants “Boots On The Ground” In Syria

WARMONGER SAYS “SUBSTANTIAL AMERICAN MILITARY COMPONENT” REQUIRED U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared on yet another Washington, D.C. talk show this week (shocker, right?) to argue in favor of sending American troops into Syria. “This idea that we’re never going to have boots on the ground in Syria is fantasy,” Graham…

WARMONGER SAYS “SUBSTANTIAL AMERICAN MILITARY COMPONENT” REQUIRED

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared on yet another Washington, D.C. talk show this week (shocker, right?) to argue in favor of sending American troops into Syria.

“This idea that we’re never going to have boots on the ground in Syria is fantasy,” Graham said on Fox News Sunday . “All this has come home to roost after the last three years of incompetent decisions.”

The warmongering, fearmongering “Republican” has been pushing hard for war in Syria for the last year … albeit against different enemies.  Last year, Graham wanted America’s military to fight alongside radical jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  This year he wants to fight against  ISIS.

Well, not him obviously … he wants to spend your  blood and treasure toward that end.

“There is no way in hell you can form an army on the ground to go into Syria to destroy (ISIS) without a substantial American component,” Graham said.

And there you have it …

We’ll at least give Graham credit for not sugarcoating his slavish devotion to America’s military-industrial complex.  But if you think this sort of invasion is going to make America safer, we would encourage you to ponder the $6 trillion (and thousands of lives) lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All that did – according to Graham – was give rise to an even more powerful enemy.

Imagine what the War on Terror II will do …

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40 comments

aikencounty September 15, 2014 at 9:49 pm

Maybe ole “Light in the Loafers” Lindsey will man up and do a Teddy Roosevelt, and lead the charge!

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shifty henry September 15, 2014 at 10:15 pm

Yeah, right – about 3 steps behind the Black Napoleon….

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euwe max September 16, 2014 at 2:10 am Reply
shifty henry September 16, 2014 at 8:57 am

Tried to get article but could not get rid of advertising overlay – could only get the headline….

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Muffy September 16, 2014 at 1:07 pm

The war trumpet will always play in the best interest of capital gains.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein September 16, 2014 at 5:17 am

“The Charge of the Light (in the Loafers) Brigade”

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west_rhino September 16, 2014 at 2:24 pm

maybe the rough-trade riders?

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The Castro September 16, 2014 at 10:18 pm

Nicely done!

If it’s Ms. Lindsey leading the charge, it’s sure to become the trail of tears, following some difficult brown of course.

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Bible Thumper September 15, 2014 at 10:28 pm

Graham on Fox
This is a turning point in the war in terror. We’re fighting a terrorist army, not an organization. It’s going to take an army to beat an army.

I will not let this president suggest to the American people we can outsource our security and this is not about our safety. There is no way in hell you can form an army on the ground to go into Syria, to destroy ISIL without a substantial American component.

I’m tired of hearing from this administration and my friends on the other side and within my party, that this is somehow easy and really not our fight. Name one Arab army you could put together anytime soon to deal with a terrorist army of over 30,000 without a substantial American commitment. Not the 82nd Airborne, but intelligence, Special Forces, to go in there and dig these guys out. I am tired of hearing from this administration how easy this is going to be, when it’s going to be hard and the consequences of losing my friend, is if they survive our best shot, this is the last best chance, to knock him out, then they will open the gates of hell to spill out on the world. This is not a Sunni versus Sunni problem, this is ISIL versus mankind. 

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Mike at the Beach September 15, 2014 at 10:45 pm

Does anyone here believe that we don’t a have a few of the “special” folks LG mentioned on the ground in Syria now? Just curious…

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Bible Thumper September 16, 2014 at 12:55 am

You notice that fits removed the “raising the house photo” then removed the whole article. I’ve never know of fits to do that before.
Why? Some possibilities:
1. Baby mama didn’t like.
2. Bravo employee illegally working for campaign.
3. Shows T-Rav in embarrassing light.

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Mike at the Beach September 16, 2014 at 1:25 am

Wow… the TR campaign implosion continues to pick up speed. It’s almost like that horrible old footage of our B-17’s getting shot down over Germany. One engine starts to smoke, then a second, then a wing dips and the big bird starts slowly falling out of the formation. Even though you know it’s 70 year old footage, you can’t help but start praying for 10 parachutes. Speaking engagements for 15 people, ZERO play from the SC mainstream press, no movement in the polls, no big fundraising numbers (or they’d be voluntarily bragging about them), and now even the FITS fellatio can evidently be recalled! It’s time to start counting parachutes, TR…

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Bible Thumper September 16, 2014 at 1:32 am

Will fits endorse HUTTO?

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Mike at the Beach September 16, 2014 at 1:46 am

Oh, TR isn’t going anywhere, amigo. Although if he did, I don’t know what FITS would do. I doubt it would be Hutto, though, but who knows? Moot point, though. Our boy TR will no doubt continue to pummel us (although only on FITS, because he’s pretty easy to avoid out in the MSM) with his self importance and narcissism right up until election day, unless he could find a graceful exit to save face. That would be tough at this point, I would think.

Smacks September 16, 2014 at 7:34 am

Who cares. All media removed stories at times. I, like tens of millions of others in the USA, pray that Graham the Demon ends up removed.
So its been several years since you have set foot in a church, we hear. Guess you built your own private little shrine to Graham. Does it include a life size poster of him weather a leather garter belt and black stockings? Never mind. I do not really wish to know details of your perverted dark side.

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Bible Thumper September 16, 2014 at 9:54 am

“I do not really wish to know details of your perverted dark side.”
Yes you do. That’s why you watch T-Rav on Bravo. But I’m not going to reveal it. You’re just going to have to get pleasure from your fertile imagination.

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shifty henry September 16, 2014 at 9:03 am

I’ve caught several articles that disappeared but then reappeared. I think one of them was sent straight to archives . And you have to guess which category an article has been cataloged (see links at top and bottom of page and in archives).

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shifty henry September 16, 2014 at 9:59 am

Ravenel’s photo ads in the articles have also disappeared – this may be a tactic similar to this

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Lindsey September 16, 2014 at 12:42 am

That’s not the only place I want boots.

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euwe max September 16, 2014 at 5:03 am

What colors will be in fashion this fall for our military boots on the ground? Will it be the Sheikh desert colors that have taken us to the top in the look that kills, or will we move to less of a patchwork design.. perhaps a lighter sandy solid, with a reddish sheen to pick up the greens and reds of the variegated background?

Will ascots see a return this year?

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Smirks September 16, 2014 at 8:36 am

Maybe they’ll hire Hugo Boss to come up with the next design.

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euwe max September 16, 2014 at 11:45 pm

Boss Hog, if the tea party comes into power.

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Mike at the Beach September 16, 2014 at 10:12 pm

I was always quite partial to that old classic, black, at least during night time festivities. During the day, my fashion-forward “posse” wore chic earth tones and local headdress in an effort to be just fashionable enough to not be overly noticeable until it was time to be noticed. Good fashion advice never goes out of style.

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SC HATES GRAHAM September 16, 2014 at 5:43 am

Graham need to go hook up with Jenny Sanford. They could both relieve their frustrations regarding their miserable pathetic lives. Grahams warmongering boots on the ground psycho babble will undoubtedly sink him even further – PERIOD.

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idcydm September 16, 2014 at 8:22 am

Boots on the ground or not, we still have an ideoloque as CinC that has not and will not listen to his commanders.

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nitrat September 16, 2014 at 10:02 am

You may have missed it. But, our Constitution mandates a civilian Commander in Chief to be in charge of our military.
Obama showed with the extensive, months long, discussions he had with the military in 2009 prior to his decision about what to do with the Afghanistan mess he was left with that he does indeed listen to commanders.
But, like George Bush, he is the “decider”. Not the whore mongering David Petraeus or the insubordinate Stanley McCrystal.
If you want the type of society where military commanders are in charge of foreign and domestic policy, you will need to go to one of those countries where the president or prime minister wears a uniform.
And, to call Obama an ideologue displays too much ignorance of the definition of the word to waste time on.

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idcydm September 16, 2014 at 10:44 am

When I took the oath I fully understood the CinC was a civilian. And you are just as much an ideologue as the CinC as is evident by your statement of Petraeus and McCrystal.

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Smirks September 16, 2014 at 8:24 am

Boots on the ground, eh? OK. I’m all for it. Let’s give Lindsey the first pair of boots.

Boots on the ground! Boots on the ground! Lookin’ like a fool with your boots on the ground…

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Nölff September 16, 2014 at 10:20 am

Here’s a haiku:
When the pimps in the
crib ma’ drop it like it’s hot
drop it like it’s hot

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nitrat September 16, 2014 at 8:56 am

Why is he doing this as OUR nation is trying to put together a coalition of the Arab League nations to start to take over the policing of their own neighborhood?

Why in the hell have we been training the UAE, Saudi, Jordanian, etc militaries for decades except to do exactly this?

You would think he is intentionally, not just ignorantly and stupidly, giving aid and comfort to the terrorists cutting off people’s heads by attacking what OUR nation is trying to do to stop them by mobilizing their fellow Muslims to take back their region and their religion from the extremists.

Did Lindsey act like this when G.H.W. Bush was putting together his 1991 Iraq coalition? Or, is he just trying to make political hay on sending more Americans to die?

Vote Brad Hutto or anyone other than Lindsey Graham.

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ShitKicker September 16, 2014 at 9:22 am

How about a boot up his ass?

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Lindsey September 16, 2014 at 10:19 pm

Yes please!

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Nölff September 16, 2014 at 10:16 am

Just Fedex some boots to Syria and drop the on the ground.

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RogueElephant September 16, 2014 at 10:33 am

My standard rebuttal to anything Grahamnasty says : Shoot something at somebody before he and McCain have a stroke. But wait, maybe a stroke would take them out. In all reality Graham will be re elected in Nov. Six more years of lies and disappointment. Why can’t we do better ?

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afmajret September 17, 2014 at 12:34 pm

That’s a rhetorical question, right? Or, did you just move here?

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Philip Branton September 16, 2014 at 11:33 am

This fine representative needs a boot up the tookus….!!

Ya know……….we highly wager that a PIPELINE survey crew corporation CEO can be tied back to this schmuck’s campaign donor association’s list….!!

As for the “Ducks on the Syrian Pond”……..we have a Pashmerga Brigade Trojan Horse sweeping around the left flank……

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Philip Branton September 16, 2014 at 12:53 pm Reply
SamAdams2010 September 16, 2014 at 4:51 pm

Come on folks, its just another opportunity for Miss LIndsay to play with the soldiers away from mama’s eyes.

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Mike's America September 17, 2014 at 1:18 am

I think some may be a little hard on Graham. First, what does “boots on the ground mean?” Surely not brigade size deployments but special forces. And Obama has already deployed Special Forces to Syria on a rescue mission for the American hostages that was sent too late.

I’ll join in the pile on on Lindsay (I’m not a big fan of his but he is right from time to time and this is one such) when he demands a large troop commitment. Until then, this issue is too serious and too important for the sophomoric comments I read below.

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Grahamnesty Is Freaky September 17, 2014 at 7:19 am

South Carolina pols don’t think much of Obama’s and Graham’s war plan.

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