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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

So they're not held in high regard, they don't have an air force, they don't have any armor, but they're winning.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive, but to make sure that the really bad ones don't come back after 96 hours.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

Could you take a look at it and give me an opinion about that?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

I hope our allies understand that the outcome in Afghanistan is important to them, just as it is to us.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

the American people need to understand this is going to be difficult, it's going to be more expensive, more lives are going to be lost, but I hope we understand, as a Nation, the consequences of losing.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

I think the cost of the Afghan Army at that level's going to be $3 or $4 billion, at the very minimum.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

There is a difference between a warrior and a criminal.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

I really believe that the Federal courts have a tremendous responsibility and role in answering the questions before that we're talking about now.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

There's a high ground in every war, and there's physical high ground, and in this there's the moral high ground, which I think is essential to win this war.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

The military justice system is humane, is transparent, I think it's the right forum.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

I am crying out for our country to realize that if we capture somebody in this war on terror, no matter how vicious the enemy may be, it becomes about us, not them.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

There should not be. No one should be held, in a domestic criminal environment, indefinitely without the right to a trial.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

You either win or you lose, and I think everybody wants to win.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 14, 2009

We could send a million troops and that will not restore legitimacy to the government; do you agree with that?

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