You and Whose (State Department) Army?

April 15, 2011 // Comments Off on You and Whose (State Department) Army?

Closeted friend of all Lindsey Graham answers the question for us of “Yeah, you and whose army?”:

“I do not believe the State Department can carry on their mission of helping the Iraqi government and people reconstitute their society without American forces there to provide security, air power, logistical support for the Iraqi army,” Graham argued. “This idea that we’ll have a State Department army, I will not vote for that. I will not support that.”

“If all military forces have withdrawn from Iraq in 2011, the State Department has to come to the Congress and say, ‘We’re going to need over 50 mine resistant vehicles. We need a fleet of helicopters and thousands of private security guards,'” Graham said. “I think that is a losing formula. I do not believe the State Department should have an army, that’s not the way to provide security.”

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