Sen. Lindsey Graham Knows "The Iranians Are Lying" From Working In A Pool Room

(This idiot, war-monging fool needs a psychiatrist, not a senate seat!)

Last Friday, Graham told the Republican Leadership Conference:

"Everything I know about the Iranians I learned in the pool room. I ran the pool room when I was a kid, and I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying."



How could a sitting U.S. Senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate feel comfortable saying such an offensive thing while there are Iranian-Americans who pay taxes, serve this country, and are proud patriotic Americans?

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I doubt he thinks Iranian-Americans are lying. He thinks the Iranian Government is lying and I agree. I also think our own gov't has lied (you can keep your current healthcare provider). Just to be fair.

I daresay some Iranian-Americans agree that the Iranian Gov't is lying. When it comes to the Iranians having nukes I'd rather err with the tea party thank you

This fool I trust about as far as I can throw a battleship!

He's a pussified fear-monger who sees a terrorist in every shadow..... and under the bed of every American.... so we MUST ALL be spied on and our rights to privacy under the 4th amendment nullified!

No I don;t agree with a lot of what is going on with the NSA, but as far as Iran, I think greater than usual caution is warranted. I had my field trip to Iran cut short a couple, few decades ago when our Embassy was attacked. And, I think that mentality is still alive and well there, or anyway, I have no reason to think it is not.

The current administration lies more than most. But they already have thousands of atomic bombs. Iran should not be trusted or believed. I believe Iran is a terrorist nation and should never be allows to process uranium, much less build a bomb.

No good can come of this. I think they should be blockaded until all nuke equipment is removed.

Thanks for the Sen. LG quotation SS.
Do you know on what date, and in what context he said it?

If he was 17 years old, and he said it at a marijuana party, that's different from saying it earlier this week, from the Senate Floor.

And thanks for the excellent cartoon.
It makes a painfully sharp point.

I have a hard time trusting any govt led by a religious faction. They tend to be very fanatically intolerant of others

I have known and worked with several Iranian people in my day. Exchange students (my college days) and refugees in my working years. They tend to be very non-trusting and mostly self associate with each other. While I believe a lot of it is cultural differences and does cause a bias, I don't think most of the people themselves want the unrest or threats of war any more than we do.

Persia (Iran) has never been noted as a big humanitarian country, but they have always been big on trade and accumulating wealth. Wave enough money or the promise of it in front of them and the people will solve the problem themselves. But their media is more controlled than ours is, and therein lays the problem. How to communicate a different dialog than they are now subjected to. It's hard to believe in freedom when you have none

The quote was taken from the Republican Leadership Conference.... last week was it?

Is the Iranian government lying? ... probably.

Does America lie?... yes

Does the American government spy on Americans.?....yes

Does the American government look for any excuse to spy on Americans?.... yes

Is Iran dangerous to the USA & the Non Islamic world?.... yes


All separate but related issues.

Thanks again SS.
I don't know why he'd have said such thing. Perhaps he thought he was among friends, and could speak flippantly.

I believe Graham was a JAG lawyer, perhaps simultaneous to his Senate career.

This raises some questions.
Any U.S. federal legislator that wants to be a $millionaire can quit congress and get a lobby job on K street.

Graham knows that.
So why would he hold two jobs? One as a U.S. military reservist, and another as a legislator?

Could it be because he wants to earn his retirement legally and ethically?

Could it be because he's so stupid he doesn't know his other options?

Or perhaps he simply likes serving in these parallel tracks; making laws during the week, and executing on them on weekends.

I'm no huge Graham fan.
But I acknowledge it's possible the quoted statement was unfortunate, but also uncharacteristic.
Don't know.

But the ancient Latin legal maxim is: no reputation is a good reputation. I won't assume the worst about Graham, until I have an affirmative reason to.
And that one quote is insufficient for that.

agree

Only reason they negotiate at all is because the sanctions in place made it in their interests. They are most definitely a terrorist nation. We should not be 'negotiating" at all. The sanctions make words unecessary

I'm most offended, that a politician actually expects us to believe, that he ever had a real job.