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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-15-07 10:29 AM
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Carl Levin calls out Graham and McCain for their double-talk
Edited on Sun Apr-15-07 11:16 AM by cal04
McCain, Graham Used Iraq War Critics’ Strategy to Increase Pressure on Maliki
Echoing Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) Iraq speech last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended the Iraq escalation this morning on Fox News and said that Congress’ efforts to set a withdrawal timeline would do nothing to pressure the Iraqi government to reach a political reconciliation:

The day you set timelines and deadlines, you undo the ability to reconcile, you empower our enemy and give them a road map to defeat us.

But as the New York Times revealed, when McCain and Graham sat down for dinner with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki during their recent visit to Baghdad, McCain conveniently used those very calls for withdrawal from Congress as a means to “motivate the Maliki government“:

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Today, on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) called out Graham and McCain for their double-talk in harshly attacking war critics publicly and then using their strategy behind closed-doors. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/15/graham-mccain/

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LEVIN: By the way, ironically, according to today’s New York Times, Senator McCcain was using our votes that he voted against, using our votes in Iraq at a dinner with Maliki to put pressure on Maliki to reach a political settlement. Senator McCain and I think Senator Graham was at that dinner, according to the New York Times, told Maliki that those votes portend a reduction in support of Americans for the Iraqis.


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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-15-07 10:47 AM
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1. Nicely done Senator Levin....
...Linsely Graham has always been, is at this moment and always will be a mealy mouthed liar
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IWantAChange Donating Member (974 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-15-07 10:53 AM
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2. The words Republican and TRUTH should not be allowed in the same sentence...
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