Jon Stewart Attempts to Reason with GOP Voters Concerning This Whole Newt Gingrich Thing

"I would like to say tonight, to the Republican primary voters: Don't do this." — Jon Stewart, and most other rational people

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Jon Stewart on the Senate's New "Go to Jail with No Trial Forever" Bill

The way I see it, being locked up indefinitely for reasons that are never fully explained to be is a small price to pay for protecting my freedom.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill of Rights, Carl Levin, Constitution, Guantanamo Bay, John McCain, Jon Stewart, Lindsey Graham, Prison, Rand Paul, Senate, The Daily Show, Video

Lindsey Graham Was Thrilled by All the War Talk on Saturday Night

I don't know about you, but I can more comfortably contemplate the dying beats of my own heart than fathom the waning thumps of the drums of American war. There's just something about the idea of an America not locked in the grips of interminable foreign battle that sends cold shivers down my spine.

I'll bet you that Sen. Lindsey Graham — who made a cameo appearance at Saturday's GOP foreign policy debate — is totally with me on this…

"Six months ago I was really worried that our party was drifting," Graham said, in an apparent reference to some Republicans' calls for pulling out of Afghanistan. "Last night was a hawkish debate that talked about listening to commanders."

Graham said he agreed with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and other Republican presidential candidates who said during a foreign policy-themed debate Saturday night that if other options failed the U.S. should attack Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons, calling a nuclear Iran "the road to Armageddon."

That was really terrifying back when most of the GOP was all anti-war and stuff, wasn't it? However, that back then Obama was expanding military efforts in Afghanistan, so what were they to do? Thankfully, the President is now pulling us out of Iraq, so the Republican Party is free to resume calling for heads on spikes.

Naturally, I feel much safer now.

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Tags: Debates, Lindsey Graham, Military, Primaries, Republicans, Senate, South Carolina

The Daily Show on the End of the War in Iraq

I'm not exactly sure why Republicans are so upset about the long-overdue end of the war in Iraq. Don't they realize that this frees up all the resources President Bachmann will need for sending troops into Iran?

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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hamid Karzai, Iraq, John McCain, Jon Stewart, Libya, Lindsey Graham, Michele Bachmann, Military, Muammar Qaddafi, The Daily Show, Video

Republicans Blast Obama on Iraq Withdrawal

After nine years, a trillion-plus dollars, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, and  nearly 5,000 U.S. and Coalition lives lost, Barack Obama announced on Friday that the United States would take the flowers, chocolate, and "thank you, liberators" greeting cards, which we were promised by Dick Cheney, in a doggy-bag and get the hell out of Dodge (also Diyala, and Fallujah, and Baghdad)…

Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011. He never mentioned the tense and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Iraq over whether to keep several thousand U.S. forces in Iraq as a training force and a hedge against meddling from Iran or other outside forces…

"I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year," Obama said.

Naturally, the 2012 presidential contenders are standing behind the Commander in Chief. With a shiv in hand.

Mitt Romney called the withdrawal an "astonishing failure," the result of either a "naked political calculation or sheer ineptitude."  Senator Lindsey Graham said the decision would "haunt our country." Foreign policy maven Herman Cain described Obama's approach as "dumb." But leave it to Michele Bachmann to propose a new Reverse Pottery Barn Rule Foreign Policy Doctrine…

"I believe that Iraq should reimburse the United States fully for the amount of money that we have spent to liberate these people," said Rep. Bachmann in an appearance Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "They are not a poor country, they are a wealthy country."

Yes, how dare a country with a per capita income of $3,600 not compensate the United States for the privilege of having their nation ravaged by an invasion and mismanaged occupation?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Herman Cain, International Affairs, Iraq, Lindsey Graham, Michele Bachmann, Military, Mitt Romney, Republicans