Lindsey Graham Faces GOP Fury--'Needs to Be Removed From the Situation Room
Source: Newsweek
Mar 23, 2026 at 05:21 AM EDT
Senator Lindsey Graham is facing fury from his fellow Republicans after expressing support for the U.S. seizing Irans Kharg Island in an interview on Sunday. Speaking on Fox News Sunday, the South Carolina Republican, who is one of the leading advocates for the war, said: This has been an amazing military operation. God bless the fallen.
He added: I trust DOD [Department of Defense]. We got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima. We can do this. The Marinesmy money is always on the Marines. The battle of Iwo Jima, which lasted from February 19 to March 26, 1945, was one of the bloodiest of World War II. Nearly 7,000 U.S. troops were killed and around 20,000 more were wounded, while more than 21,000 Japanese troops were killed.
Grahams remarks sparked anger from other Republicans, with Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, saying he needs to be removed from the Situation Room.. She wrote on X: I don't want to hear one word from a guy with no kids, desperately sending our sons and daughters into war on the ground in Iran.
Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna also slammed Graham for the remarks, saying in a post on X that she is deeply upset at the lack of respect for life Senator Lindsey Graham is displaying when talking about our troops. He is acting as if they are expendable cattle. This is unacceptable and dark. There were over 26,000 American casualties at Iwo Jima.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-faces-gop-fury-needs-to-be-removed-from-the-situation-room-11719107
Irish_Dem
(81,688 posts)This is an active combat situation, and people need to shut up and stay silent.
The whole thing is a cluster F.
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,228 posts)Only supports the cluster fuck. Voices need to be raised to stop this madness. This is a rogue administration literally endangering the world. In any rational time, Congress would put a stop to this folly and serious negotiations would ensue. But since Congressional Republicans are too busy kissing Trumps ass or averting their eyes, its up to us, yeah, Im going to say it, we the people. Direct action reduced the madness in Minnesota, it needs to be repeated nationwide.
Irish_Dem
(81,688 posts)The people who know the particulars of the combat op.
Of course good people need to speak up and protest.
mdbl
(8,709 posts)He never has anything good to say.
Magoo48
(6,723 posts)US Americans are apparently still unwilling to accept the inconveniences of pronged direct-action required to recapture and reinforce our ever weakening freedom. Ive been wondering all along when high school, college, and the working youth of our nation will bring the incredible combined power and energy of their organized presence to bear.
SergeStorms
(20,643 posts)Then let's see how quickly the 25th Ammendment is enacted.
J-9
(134 posts)will make the repubs speak up. They are too far gone. We will just end up with a draft.
Dan
(5,245 posts)Maybe if they remove age and other limitations on who can be drafted.
twodogsbarking
(18,931 posts)The Madcap
(1,941 posts)Instead of Department of War.
blue-wave
(5,329 posts)It appears as though Lindsey is enjoying nawin' on those South Carolina country mushrooms.
Martin68
(27,863 posts)Cosmocat
(15,437 posts)Histrionic personality disordered.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9743-histrionic-personality-disorder
ColoradoHoosier
(40 posts)Whatever they have on this guy must be so bad... I don't dare to even contemplate, but it's way beyond his being a closeted gay.
sop
(18,821 posts)Lindsey literally turned into Don's biggest fluffer after one golf outing back in 2017:
"Art of the deal? Graham praises Trump after playing round of golf with the president"
http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article177970546.html
Botany
(77,498 posts)Lindsey although still an asshole was loyal to and stood up for his friend John McCain until
his Columbus Day 2017 golf outing w/Trump and after that he became a full time Rump
fluffer. I am pretty sure Trump showed him his pictures or videos that went well beyond just gay
sex but involved boys.
Katcat
(578 posts)Id say he supplied Lindsey with what he likes
Bayard
(29,887 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,294 posts)He has always been a follower though of manly men.
WestMichRad
(3,302 posts)Hes become Stephen Miller light, egging on TSFs worst tendencies.
Prairie Gates
(8,286 posts)This has a special meaning in South Carolina.
sop
(18,821 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,307 posts)Escurumbele
(4,100 posts)into these wars they know we are going to loose, and many soldiers will be killed in the process, unless they are more stupid than what I know they are. But hey, its all for the money and to try to hide the Epstein documents, SOBs, all of them!
chowder66
(12,337 posts)Most of them are like this. He's just got a hard-on for the Chief Jackass because he listened to him for once (or more).
He's as delusional as his idol.
travelingthrulife
(5,294 posts)He became an instant supporter after a weekend playing golf with Trump.
BattleRow
(2,531 posts)chowder66
(12,337 posts)SamuelAdams
(73 posts)to the childish comments, the cultists are all treating this war like a video game. They don't care about our soldiers. Who describes a war as "amazing"? They find watching it fun. It's for their entertainment.
Alliepoo
(2,834 posts)Retaining his office, thus the desperate sucking of the tiny orange mushroom in an effort to appeal to the maga zealots. Maybe also an effort to keep quiet whatever dirt it is that Donvict, Putin and David Pecker have on him. He is despicable.
cab67
(3,790 posts)...I used to have some respect for Graham. He's always been an insufferable warmonger, but he also seemed to have a sense of decency about him.
That stopped being the case many years ago.
BumRushDaShow
(170,427 posts)Once McCain was gone, all bets were off.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,119 posts)the world has turned topsy-turvy.
I have a suggestion for Leningrad Lindsey, why don't you motor yourself over to Kharg Island and land with the Marines and show us just how it's done you worthless piece of shit.
flashman13
(2,446 posts)Rebl2
(17,808 posts)understand their shock. He has always been a war monger imo.
generalbetrayus
(1,902 posts)not the fake Republican kind. Maybe Mace and Luna have actually figured that out.
mdbl
(8,709 posts)at Mar-a-Lardo.
Evolve Dammit
(21,797 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,086 posts)I never liked him, but didn't imagine he had this much heartless warmongering in him and irrational strategy. This is what Trump does to the people who come under his influence.
Polybius
(21,956 posts)He used to be like John McCain. Maverick, but always neo-con when it comes to war.
MadameButterfly
(4,086 posts)I do recall someone saying that McCain "never heard of a war he didn't like."
i didn't follow Graham back then, but a few years back would have called him one of the "adults in the room." A name we give to people RW enough to work with Trump but still in possession of some expertise, experience, and common sense. Rubio too.
That doesn't exist any more. They are all sociopaths-in-training; Lord of the Flies expanded from an island to a country and aspiring to the whole planet.
Evolve Dammit
(21,797 posts)Skittles
(172,069 posts)it's ridiculous for any GOPer to call out the actions of Graham while pimping for a multi-felon sex offender seditionist mass murderer
Crowman2009
(3,556 posts)Get in that f***in' box Lindsey!