Graham to Obama: scrap New York terror trial, I'll stand with you

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 2010-03-07

[rabscuttle385]

Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday outlined his plan to help President Obama close Guantánamo if the administration agrees to abandon a civilian New York terror trial for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in favor of a military tribunal.

BY MARK SAPPENFIELD

On Sunday, two moderate senators defended President Obama’s apparent willingness to reconsider his administration’s decision to use a civilian New York terror trial for the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The first, Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina, is seen as the architect behind the Obama administration’s potential change in plans. He has promised to help Obama close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility if Obama gives up his plans of trying Mohammed and other sensitive terror suspects in a civilian court.

“We need a legal system that gives due process to detainees while recognizing” that there are sensitivities to national security in such a case, said Senator Graham, a former military lawyer, on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

[Stultis]

Idiot.

Dupe.

TOOL.

[jan in Colorado]

DIGG

[Danae]

I pray he is just using the “Keep your enemies closer” tactic...

[flaglady47]

“This effeminate puke knows damn well that O’Bunga is going to be forced to scrap the NYC terror trials because of the public outcry. So, this “scrap the KSM deal and I’ll stand with you” is a canard. It’s Linda Graham’s CYA smokescreen for turning traitor on conservatives and patriots all over this country who want this O’Bunga Communist Gateway Bill torched.”

The biggest reason Grahamnesty is cutting this deal is because McCain is giving him his marching orders. That’s why. Behind the scene skullduggery.

[lewislynn]

Obozo would have to scrap the NY terror trial anyway. When your enemy is shooting himself in the foot,

Why would you assume they're enemies?

[JerseyHighlander]

This time the north should force South Carolina to secede and seal the border until such time as they can grow up and stop sending heartless narcissistic scumbags to Congress who use trial balloons that insult the thousands of American dead over the last 9 years for political farce.

[lmr]

Great post. I agree.

[Brytani]

He knows he’s toast in S. Carolina. The party has censured him twice, he’s doing horrible in polls.

This tells me he is simply planning on switching parties. He can’t get re-elected as a Pub but he may as a Dem.

Mark my words - he’s gonna jump; the scumbag.

[chilltherats]

What a dumbass. zero was going to drop the civilian trials anyway. Leave it to a *&$!#@$ pub to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.

[ronnie raygun]

There is a mental disorder infecting the GOP it’s called RHINO

[Rastus]

Unfortunately, they just gave him the nod in ‘08. We’re stuck with him a longo time.

[Rastus]

He can do more damage from within, and he isn’t up until 2014.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

Thanks Lindsey! Obama has stepped in it and it stinks! Now you have stepped in it too and now share the blame! I’m sure you can get your buddy Juan and maybe your “gang of 14” to stepp in it too! Screw you!

[Vaquero]

As God is my witness....I’ll never be partisan again

[liberateUS]

Lindsay, as your fearless leader is so fond of reminding McRino, “Elections have consequences!” We in SC elected you to represent our conservative values. We did not vote for the more conservative democrat because a democrat is always a democrat first. I gotta say that based on your recent record, we would have gotten the same result. 2014 is coming, and you had better tweak your resume!

[aruanan]

2014 is coming, and you had better tweak your resume!

Why wait until 2014? Someone with so little principle as LG, someone who is so anxious to be liked by such paragons of corruption as the Democrats, has got to have some vulnerabilities that can be exploited in such a way as to drive him nuts or drive him from office.

[aruanan]

The first, Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina, is seen as the architect behind the Obama administration’s potential change in plans. He has promised to help Obama close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility if Obama gives up his plans of trying Mohammed and other sensitive terror suspects in a civilian court.

"I'll help you close what should never be closed if you promise not to hold the trial in a place it was never going to held," Goober Graham.

[kempster]

And Obama says, “uh-ok, thanks, I think.”

[Iron Munro]

Lindsey never misses and opportunity to jump on a democrat bandwagon.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

“Obozo would have to scrap the NY terror trial anyway.” thats what I thought. Is Graham just plain STUPID?"

This way he gets to claim credit. It's right there in the article: "...the architect behind the Obama administration’s potential change in plans..."

He's trying to save Obama. None of Limbaugh's "I hope he fails!" for Lindsey.