Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) shrugged off the massacre of 16 Afghans in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province by an apparently drunken US soldier, insisting that “these things happen.”
“You just have to push through these things,” Graham insisted, adding that if the US kept occupying Afghanistan “we can win this thing” and that despite the massacre, progress was being made in the 11 year long occupation.
Graham went on to say that the key to the war was to make a public commitment to keep occupation forces in the country beyond 2014, saying that a continued military presence would “make sure the Taliban never come back.”
Uniformly hawkish, Graham has been at the forefront of shrugging off the recent Afghan disasters, insisting during the mass protests earlier this month over US military burnings of Qurans that the protests did not represent a “total picture” of the war.
Lemme see here, one classic definition of insanity is – doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Graham is classically insane. Well and, he is a soulless warmonger. The Afghaniscam is finito, over, a wash, and one really ugly quagmire. GET OUT OF IT!
"While this is tragic and will be investigated that soldier will be held accountable for his actions under the military justice system, unfortunately these things happen in war," Graham said on ABC's "This Week." "You just have to push through these things.”
He almost said the same thing about Libya where he was mentioning about how to make money in Libya.
Look senator: you are either drunk or on some kind of drugs because of your war mongering power or you are so stupid that you don't know what a hell you are talking about, There is no war in Afghanistan, US and others occupying that country, no Afghani ever have attacked US or EU so that US and EU are in defense position having a war with Afghanis. This is not one time or one day accidents, its been a going facts on since Vietnam War, you don't believe it ask your friend MacCain when US solders were massacring Vietnamese, you don't believe that read the history again and again, US and England been at wars with other nations, doing all kind of harm and shown their brutality from French militarism in Algeria to US in Vietnam to South America to Balkan wars and Iraq, these things happens all right but only if your democratic system are a militarism regime with you and your friends supporting the wars. Here what needs to be done is for US to release Bradley Manning and put this man and his friends in jail, because what Bradley Maning done is nothing to what these people are doing.
Hey Lindsay! Why don't you go over there and "courageously" explain to the grieving families just how much they need to push through it as they push a dagger through your cold dead heart. You soulless bastard.
It's no surprise Graham has these opinions; he represents the state in which Ron Paul was booed for saying that the Golden Rule should be a guide U.S. foreign policy.
"I tremble for my country because I know God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." – T. Jefferson
I for one will be writing my congress reps and condemning graham asking that that man be put away…he is as insane as anyone in the US congress which means pretty much all of them…
this is the best congress aipac and the mic could ever ask for….along with official government aka MSM…we are never ever getting out of this area of the world…
when 10K aipac people show the congress is all ears
when 500k anti-war people show arrest them they say
something needs to be done
One has to wonder why Graham and the rest of the warhawks are so dead set on staying in Afghanistan – and elsewhere around that region. They don't give a rats' behind for the indigenous peoples – couldn't care less for their plight. So, why?
Surely Graham knows that "…a continued military presence would “make sure the Taliban never come back."" is incorrect. A continued military presence would guarantee that WE never leave and the Taliban will always be there to harass and kill the Occupiers. And as long as we stay there, incidents like what has happened over the last month or so will continue to occur, along with the resultant repercussions. No one likes being under the boot but being under the boot of someone from the "outside" is almost always intolerable. Winning hearts and minds never works.
So, what is the argument for staying? What's the real reason people like Graham and McCain are so willing to sacrifice our young so casually.
Did George Stephanopoulos ask him to explain why we should stay…never mind…already know the answer to that one.
there is one sentence for the reason that Graham likes to send American Youth to Afghanistan,
He wants to make sure an OIL PIPELINE can be built through Afghanistan. It has been the plan for ever!.
Whenever Lindsey tries to butch it up, someone somewhere always dies.
Sen. Graham's views usually channel the lines of Marie Jana Korbelova [aka as Madeleine Albright] the first female US Secretary of State of the USA, whose response to CBS's Leslie Stahl, was an emphatic "yes" its worth it to kill 500,000 Iraqi children in order to get a regime change in Baghdad.
Senator Graham is a war criminal who must be unelected ASAP.
If only it were that easy.
Incredible. Just incredible.
How often are members of da Senate drug tested and are they really getting enough fiber in their diets???
The US Afghan War strategy? – is that the one where we get the Russians to all die laughing at US for being so stupid to still be there after 10 years and after having had NO more success than they did in their 10 years invasion?
Sad that the Press does NOT ever tell the truth about the US invasion war in Afghanistan – it is ALL about the oil companies wanting to build a gas pipeline through that country.
War is indeed a 'racket".
The reelection of Linsey Graham would indicate that the voters of South Carolina are about the most stupid in the country – sad to say because I like SC.
…"voters of South Carolina are about the most stupid in the country…" Right behind the voters who continue to re-elect Michele Bachman, of course.
The miserable Nazi butcher Senator Graham would probably do more good than evil if he would just die already. I imagine if US soldiers were engaged in mass rape of girls 13 and under, this piece of subhuman garbage would be out front and center trying to justify it. After all I'm sure more war means more jobs means Scumbag gets re-elected in his next-to-useless- state.
Him, his family, and everyone who voted for him should die slowly and painfully. Then we can import some Afghans to urinate on his miserable corpse…STILL more useful dead than alive.
Hubris of Empire 101.
The recent murder of innocent Afghan civilians is just one of a whole string of US/Nato crimes in that country. But he doesn't care. I am sure had he lived in the early forties he would have been an SS officer and concentration camp guard. And had he lived in the late forties '47 – '49 he would have been a Zionist and member of the terrorist Stern or Irgun Gang taking part in the killing rampage of innocent Palestinian people that was going on at the time to create and establish the criminal rogue state of Israel..
Sick, evil man.