Senator: We All Get Killed Back Here At Home If Obama Doesnt Send Combat Troops Back Into Iraq

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Senator: We All Get Killed Back Here At Home If Obama Doesnt Send Combat Troops Back Into Iraq

by Igor Volsky at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/09/14/3567248/senator-we-all-get-killed-back-here-at-home-if-obama-doesnt-send-troops-back-into-iraq/

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blasted President Barack Obama’s plan to defeat ISIS during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, calling the commander-in-chief “disingenuous and delusional” and warning that Americans will be “killed here at home” unless he sends ground troops into Iraq and Syria to defeat the terrorist threat.


Comparing the estimated 30,000 ISIS fighters to the Nazis, Graham warned that “this idea we’ll never had any boots to defeat them in Syria is fantasy.” He argued that given the growth of the “radical Islamic army” and its control of territory in northern Iraq and Syria, “it’s going to take an army to beat a army.” “This is ISIL versus mankind,” he said, using another acronym for the group.

“To destroy ISIL, you have to kill or capture their leaders, take back their territory, cut off the finances and destroy the capability to regenerate. This is a war we’re fights not a counter terrorism operation,” Graham continued. “This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home.” The Unites States has approximately 1,600 soldiers in Iraq advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces, conducting intelligence operations and surveillance and reconnaissance flights.

Graham’s comments come just hours after the terrorist group released another video purportedly showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, marking the third time the organization has beheaded a western hostage.


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[oldandhappy]

1. Are your people at home lining up to enlist?

[Adsos Letter]

2. All of us?

That seems like a lot, Senator.

[marmar]

3. Lindsey, don't go away mad. Lindsey, just go away.

Or at least sit down and shut the f**k up.

[spanone]

4. lindsey is a hysterical ass

[yeoman6987]

5. I knew it was him even before hitting the thread

I can't stand him. I especially can't stand that he has reelection in November and does not even have to sweat. Why can't Democratic voters in South Carolina at least try to fire him.

[Historic NY]

6. Is he having an attack of the vapours again?