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SENATORS THREATEN FILIBUSTER IF HOUSE DEMOCRATS STRIP AMENDMENT PREVENT RELEASE OF SO-CALLED ‘TORTURE’ PHOTOS
The usually calm, cool and collected Lindsey Graham was anything but Tuesday at a press conference with his U.S. Senate colleague Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) about the possibility that so-called “torture” photos might be released.
“I cannot believe that we’re about to do this, that we’re going to dismiss the advice of our commanders who are leading our troops at the time of war to give into a fringe element in American politics,” said Graham, responding to reports that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats may be preparing to strip the Lieberman-Graham amendment to the war supplemental funding bill that would prohibit the photos release.
The amendment was passed in the Senate without objection after proponents — including Generals David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno — said publication of the photos would put U.S. troops at risk.
“[Petraeus and Odierno] told us without any hesitation that if these photos are released our enemies will use it to incite violence against our troops,” Graham said. “If these photos see the light of day, it will be a death sentence to some serving abroad.”
Graham and Lieberman threatened a filibuster if the provision, which was created with help from the White House, is stripped but what he called “fringe” liberals.
Pelosi and House Democrats pushed to remove the amendment after a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberty Union under the Freedom of Information Act seeking access to the classified photos.
“Is the ACLU now in charge of the House of Representatives?” Graham sarcastically asked. “The Senate is very clear as to what we think should happen. The president is correct in arguing against the release of these photos.
“[W]hat we’re about to do today, in stripping this language from the supplemental, is give in to people who I believe have a very naive sense of what the world is really about, that have no real understanding that this is a war, where people are getting killed every day trying to protect us against a vicious enemy.”
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Way to tell them Lindsey! We need more like him that are willing to stand up for our Troops. Our Troops that stand for us everyday!
Did anyone consider the alternate plan of not letting the government do secret torture things that piss off the residents of other countries so much that they decide to be terrorists?
Although, I personally am so far to the left, that even the democrats appear to me to be “right-wing,” I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People–an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://freethegods.blogspot.com/
I am not happy with Senator Graham and the way he has treated me. He has risked my personal harm.
Liz-
I am glad that Senator Graham has “risked your personal harm.” You suck. You are dumber than a bag of mashed up buttholes. I hope your “personal harm” is continually risked every day.
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