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Graham Says World ‘Literally About to Blow Up’

(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

After praising President Barack Obama on immigration, South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham blasted the foreign policy portion of the State of the Union speech.  

“The world is literally about to blow up,” Graham said, saying he completely disagrees with Obama on Iran policy.  

Obama pledged to veto any additional sanctions legislation while negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program are ongoing.  

“The world as I know was not remotely described by the president. Syria is a contagion,” Graham said.  

“Explain to me what happens if the Syrian conflict goes on another year and Assad continues to win,” Graham said, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “Iraq is disintegrating. The whole region is moving toward chaos, and we’re doing nothing. We’re talking about limiting drones?” said Graham, who brought “Duck Dynasty” co-star Korie Robertson to the speech as his guest.  

“I hope he will leave a residual force in Afghanistan [so] they can do the job,  because if he doesn’t, it will fall apart at a faster pace than Iraq,” Graham said, referring to keeping a support force past 2014.

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