As colonel, Sen. Graham goes back to Iraq

[unhappycamper]

As colonel, Sen. Graham goes back to Iraq
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, February 13, 2008

MUNICH, Germany — Colonel Graham is heading back to Iraq, where he will wear cammies, pack a Beretta and snap off salutes left and right.

This week, for the third time in 10 months, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will don a military uniform and go to Iraq as an ID card-carrying member of the U.S. armed forces. The Air Force Reservist is the only sitting member of the Senate to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan.

But unlike most everyone else downrange, the senator’s stay will be brief, about 10 days, comparable to his two stints in April and August of last year.

“I’d like to do more, but (with) the day job, you know in the Senate, it’s hard to get away for any long period,” Graham said in an interview with Stars and Stripes during the recent Munich conference on world security.

Graham served as an Air Force lawyer for more than six years. When he left the active-duty ranks in 1989, he joined the South Carolina Air National Guard, until he was elected to the House in 1994. At that point, he signed on with the Reserve, and is now an instructor at the Air Force Judge Advocate General School.


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uhc comment: Colonel Douchebag (R) goes to Iraq.

[tanyev]

1. Awww, it's hard to get away with the demands of the day job, is it?

Poor thing. How come all our other soldiers don't get to pick and choose when they go?

:nopity:

[BOSSHOG]

2. With all due respect to our members of the Reserve Forces

how can it possibly be cost effective to send an 0-6 via commercial air to Iraq for TEN DAYS? No doubt his legal skills could very well be used stateside by the Air Force during his required annual training.