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pinboy3niner

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5. Lindsey Graham: We need to work with Iran to save Iraq

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 04:37 PM

Jun 2014

06/15/14 12:56 PM—Updated 06/16/14 11:06 AM
By Benjy Sarlin

One of the Senate’s leading hawks, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday urged President Obama work with Iran about coordinating their response to sweeping gains by the insurgent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

“The Iranians can provide some assets to make sure Baghdad doesn’t fall,” Graham said on CNN’s State of the Union. “We need to coordinate with the Iranians and the Turks need to get in the game and get the Sunni Arabs back into the game, form a new government without (Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki.)”

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