Sen. Lindsey Graham: "The war on terror is about headlines"

[sabra]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070208-115702-8916r.htm

War resolution seen hurting morale

Senate Republicans yesterday contradicted top Pentagon officials who say Congress would not injure troop morale by passing a nonbinding resolution critical of President Bush's Iraq war plan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he was outraged that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates would say U.S. combat forces "understand" politics back home and won't be disheartened by a symbolic no-confidence vote against the commander in chief.

"It shows a lack of sophistication about how this would play in newspaper headlines throughout the world," said Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican.

"The war on terror is about headlines," he told The Washington Times. "The last thing we need to do is give (terrorists) a headline by our political action that would embolden them, and by contrast would be hurtful to our men and women in the theater trying to execute the new strategy."
Mr. Graham continued, "The only way we will ever lose in Iraq is if our will to succeed is broken."

[AlCzervik]

1. no Senator, the last thing we need is to stifle the debate because then the

terrorists have actually won.

[CJCRANE]

2. "The war on terror is about headlines" -

I took that to mean something else, i.e. it's about spin.

(Because let's face it, the real war on terror ended when they let Osama flee Tora Bora).

[sabra]

4. same here... :-)

[Toots]

3. You can not win a war that does not exist

There is no "War on Terror" Terror is an idea, a mode of operation, an intangible. There has always been terror and there will always be terror, more so when Republicans are in charge but it can not be something that is "won". The longer the killing goes on though the more money is made by the profiteers and that is the all important factor to the Republicans. Keep the killing going and in fact increase it if possible..

[Raffi Ella]

5. Well aint Democracy a Bitch!

Fuck Senator Graham and his President and all those trying to silence dissent.


Thank God for these Military men who speak the truth in this terrifying atmosphere Bushco has created.