TPMDC Lindsey Graham: October 2011
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham: Obama 'Failed' In Iraq
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday blasted the Obama administration's handling of Iraq as a failure and dictated by nothing more than campaign tactics.
"At a time when we need troops in Iraq to secure the country, we have none," Graham told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "It was his job to end this right [and] they failed."
Graham, a long-standing critic of the Obama administration's foreign policy, also scolded the President for letting politics guide his decisions, rather than strategy.
"I think he's made some poor decisions on the strategic level. Israel has been thrown under the bus by this President. Iraq and Afghanistan [are] being run by Chicago and not Washington for these past six months."
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Libya
GOP Senator Supports 'Infrastructure' Spending ... In Libya (VIDEO)
Republicans have made blanket opposition to big federal spending projects a cornerstone of their policy agenda. That means even historically bipartisan programs like infrastructure investment are DOA in Congress, at least for the time being.
So it came as a bit of a surprise to hear a GOP senator who's up for re-election this cycle say on Fox News, "We can go over there and help them build their infrastructure up."
That's Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He wasn't talking about a forlorn corner of the United States, though. He was talking about Libya. And the 'infrastructure' he was talking about didn't really include schools and bridges.
"One of the problems I have from leading from behind is when a day like this comes we don't have the infrastructure in place that we could have," Graham explained. Here he's talking about the metaphorical infrastructure of U.S. forces and appointees on the ground who can help direct events. However, he soon moved on to talking about another type of infrastructure -- the kind that helps with extracting oil.
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