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tsai3904
02-06-2013, 12:25 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will offer a resolution next week commending President Barack Obama’s use of drones and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.

“Every member of Congress needs to get on board,” Graham said. “It’s not fair to the president to let him, leave him out there alone quite frankly. He’s getting hit from libertarians and the left.

“I think the middle of America understands why you would want a drone program to go after a person like Anwar al-Awlaki,” Graham added.

The newest discussions about drones and al-Awlaki comes after the White House sent a memo to members of Congress explaining the reasoning behind their killing of an American citizen who was working for Al Qaeda.

Graham said the resolution will allow for a debate about who the nation is at war with and what proper action during times of war is.

“The process of being targeted I think is legal, quite frankly laborious and should reside in the commander in chief to determine who an enemy combatant is and what kind of force to use,” Graham told reporters on Wednesday.

Graham said judges should not be the ones to decide individual cases of enemy combatants and the courts would uphold the president’s ability to decide.

“If this ever goes to court I guarantee you it will be a slam dunk support of what the administration is doing. I think one of the highlights of President Obama’s first time and the beginning of his second term is the way he’s been able to use drones against terrorists,” Graham said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2013/02/graham-defends-obama-on-drones-156263.html

sailingaway
02-06-2013, 12:25 PM
Talk about being on the wrong side of history....

I hope this blows up in his face.

moostraks
02-06-2013, 12:31 PM
Talk about being on the wrong side of history....

I hope this blows up in his face.
Let's hope we are the ones writing it when all is said and done.

compromise
02-06-2013, 12:49 PM
He’s getting hit from libertarians

Woah, Graham is acknowledging that we exist?

We must be doing pretty well.

Graham is a RINO, he should switch party already.

mosquitobite
02-06-2013, 12:51 PM
Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get rid of this idiot next election? This guy and Lamar Smith need to be public enemy #1 & #2

ItsTime
02-06-2013, 01:00 PM
Sickening.

tsai3904
02-06-2013, 01:03 PM
Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get rid of this idiot next election?

http://www.facebook.com/senatorleebright

Endorsed Ron Paul for President.
Against indefinite detention, drone strikes, intervention in Syria...
Top scoring legislator according to South Carolina's Club for Growth the last four years.
Talks about Mises and Hayek on his Facebook page.

Sources say he's committed to running.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/02/04/sources-lee-bright-will-run-for-us-senate/

ItsTime
02-06-2013, 01:05 PM
http://www.facebook.com/senatorleebright

Endorsed Ron Paul for President.
Against indefinite detention, drone strikes, intervention in Syria...
Top scoring legislator according to South Carolina's Club for Growth the last four years.
Talks about Mises and Hayek on his Facebook page.

Sources say he's committed to running.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/02/04/sources-lee-bright-will-run-for-us-senate/

Is he going run... edit, you edited when I was quoting ha.

VanBummel
02-06-2013, 01:05 PM
You really can't make this shit up...

Brian4Liberty
02-06-2013, 01:11 PM
Lindsey Graham dreams of the day when there will again be a Caesar. He can then permanently attach his mouth to their ass, like a barnacle.

ClydeCoulter
02-06-2013, 01:14 PM
You really can't make this shit up...

We can't, but they do every day and it's really getting on my nerves.

GunnyFreedom
02-06-2013, 01:16 PM
I can't even articulate how much I hate this guy...

kathy88
02-06-2013, 01:18 PM
“I think the middle of America understands why you would want a drone program to go after a person like Anwar al-Awlaki,” Graham added.

Ummmm no creepy fucker, middle America does NOT.

ItsTime
02-06-2013, 01:18 PM
John Bolton also just came out with a similar statement.

GunnyFreedom
02-06-2013, 01:19 PM
most of these wicked moralists are going to be in for a biiiiiiig surprise at the Bema Seat.

FSP-Rebel
02-06-2013, 01:24 PM
http://i46.tinypic.com/1nxngg.jpg
Taking down this guy should be something we all can work together on. This guy raked us and Ron over the coals many times and now we have the option of sending a guy that endorsed Ron at him.

Lucille
02-06-2013, 01:25 PM
I can't wait to see which traitorous POS sign onto it.

kathy88
02-06-2013, 01:29 PM
I can't wait to see which traitorous POS sign onto it.

Probably not Justin or Thomas :)

Lucille
02-08-2013, 11:03 AM
Probably not Justin or Thomas :)

No doubt. Rand, I'm not sure about.


Bloodthirsty neoconservative Lindsey Graham (http://barelyablog.com/sen-graham-not-fair-to-let-president-get-hit-but-what-about-the-drones-victims/), the South Carolina Republican Senator, supports President Obama’s drone policy, which, as I noted on 02.05.13, is being debated only because of the very public confirmation hearings for John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency.

“Sen. Graham says it’s not fair to leave the president out there on his own while he’s getting hit from libertarians and the left,” reports MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

I guess it’s fair to leave kids like little Shakira to brave the cowardice of Uncle Sam’s Assassin. As you see, not much remains of the child’s small, charred face.

http://barelyablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Drone-article-2077753-0F42484E00000578-468_468x344.jpg

[...]
Despite the horror of the concept of “Targeted killings”—and the violation of 4th and 5h amendment safeguards—the LA Times posits the need only to “limit” rather than “eliminate” this barbarism.

And about the press...


This isn't ultimately about ideological hypocrisy - of liberals changing their tune once their guy is in office - but something much more basic and much more disturbing. It reveals that for all their crowing about being watchdogs of all that is good and decent in society, when push comes to shove, too many journalists are ready and willing handmaidens to power - including the power to kill (http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/07/nick-gillespie-you-dont-need-a-weatherma).