Colonel Graham (R-SC), Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Posted on January 8, 2007

Lindsey Graham, a US Air Force Reserve Colonel, supports the policy of a “surge” in Iraq:

â€œIt was clear that he has thought long and hard about this change in strategy,â€ said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina who supports the troop increase.

Colonel Graham, unlike your fellow Colonels in all of the Services, you have not served a single 12 month deployment to SW Asia since the events of September 11, 2001.

If you are going to ask Soldiers and Marines to do a third, fourth and fifth tour, please have the decency to request immediate deployment and if granted resign your Senate Seat, just as one previous Senator did:

Harry S. Truman (33rd President 1945-1953), entered the Missouri National Guard as a private in 1905, saw active duty as a Battery Commander in France during World War I and rose to the rank of colonel in the Missouri National Guard before World War II. Senator Truman volunteered for active duty for World War II but was turned down by Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall.

Colonel Graham, if you are unwilling to do one involuntary tour, you can not ask others to do multiple involuntary tours.

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One Response to “Colonel Graham (R-SC), Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is”

kerwin_brown on January 9th, 2007 1:15 am

As far as I know our military is an all volunteer force so no one would be doing an involuntary tour of duty since that part of the agreement when they joined. If you want to complain about the soldiers not getting enough R&R between tours or having tours that are too long I can see the argument. Otherwise the soldiers are there to complete a mission and the military leadership is there to determine how they can best do that. No Senator that I know of is part of that leadership, no matter how much they pretend to be.