Senator Lindsey Graham (R) was on Meet The Press, Sunday 07, 2007 alongside Senator Joe Biden (D). Out of the entire segment of the show with Graham and Biden... I loved these points of view brought forth by Sen. Graham.
It went as follows:
MR. RUSSERT: If the surge doesn’t work, [surge in the troop level by President Bush] will Republicans senators then go to the president and say, “Enough”?
SEN. GRAHAM: Well let’s talk a little bit about the -- why he’s doing the surge. Again, he’s trying to come up with a strategy for victory, and our Democratic friends have written the president a letter days before he makes a speech explaining what he’s going to do and why. Every Democratic proposal that I’ve been privy to has one common denominator to it... withdrawal. He received a letter from the speaker of the House, from the majority leader of the Senate saying, “Bring this war to an end. Redeploy in four to six months.” We...
MR. RUSSERT: No, but my question, Senator -- Senator, my question was, if the surge does not work...
SEN. GRAHAM: Right.
MR. RUSSERT: ...will Republicans then say, “We tried everything. We gave it our last best hope. Mr. President, the war has been lost”?
SEN. GRAHAM: I don’ think any Republican or Democrat should do anything right now to say the war is lost. We should try to win this war. And the day you say we’re going to withdraw -- three months, six months, a year from now -- the effect will be that the militants will be emboldened, the moderates will be frozen, and we will have sent the message to the wrong people. Who started this...
MR. RUSSERT: So we’re stuck there forever.
SEN. GRAHAM: Well, you stay there with a purpose to win. If we never had enough troops in the beginning, when did we start having enough troops? We have paid a heavy price for the mistakes we’ve made in the past.
The biggest mistake we could make as a nation is to listen to Pelosi and Reid doctrine of withdrawing without wondering what happens when we leave. My biggest fear, as a United States Senator, as an American, is that we will make a political decision to leave Iraq without thinking about what’s left when we leave. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when we leave. I understand it’s not popular, but this war is not about the moment, it’s about the next decade and the decade to follow. It’s about our national security interests. It’s about the war on terror. Moderates vs. Extremists.
If we leave the moderates and leave it to the extremists, if we tell the extremists through our behavior and our actions, “We’re leaving Iraq in a year. It’s yours,” we will never know peace. I hope we can rally around the president’s idea of putting enough troops in to make a difference. I hope we can do what Joe [Biden] says, push the Iraqi people to come up with the political model that will work. But no politician in Iraq can possibly reconcile that nation with this level of violence. A pre-condition -- a pre-condition to political solution is security.
Security is absent. We got to regain the capital...
>>> More on Meet The Press HERE
This is the kind of stuff no Democrat or Republican has been putting out there for the American People to grasp. There is so much more involved in this war than the average American knows. Again I’ll say... how can they???
No one is talking about this war all the way through!!!
AubreyJ.........
January 08, 2007
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