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Editor's note: ...no empathy for Lindsey Graham after his death. Graham was in the US congress for three decades. Think about that: a career politician. If he didn't die how many more years would he have served as a career politician? America doesn't need career politicians. They are a detriment to an open and transparent society because they are all compromised from one degree to another. Lindsey Graham received well over $1 million in campaign contributions from defense contractors and affiliated individuals/PACs over his career (with cycle totals often in the $100K–$300K+ range), including notable support from Boeing (~$26K–$30K+), Lockheed Martin, Raytheon (RTX), Northrop Grumman (~$5K–$31K+), General Dynamics (~$35K), and others like Honeywell, AM General (via large super PAC gifts), and Fluor. Career politicians have turned public office into a lifelong entitlement rather than temporary service to the people. Characters like the 87 year old Maxine Waters cling to power for decades building personal machines of influence while ignoring the needs of those they claim to represent. Washington operates as an insulated club where self-preservation trumps (pun intended) national interest leading to endless spending lobbyist driven decisions and detachment from reality. This careerism betrays the American people and mirrors the decline of past republics like Rome where entrenched elites accelerated collapse. Term limits are essential to force accountability and fresh ideas.
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Lindsey Graham Cheered Death. We Shouldn't Do the Same

The senator represented my state in Congress for three decades. This is what I saw.

By Jack Hunter | July 14, 2026

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died unexpectedly on Saturday at the age of 71.

I was born and raised in South Carolina and was his constituent for most of his three decades in Congress.

Graham became a member of the U.S. House in 1995. In 1996, my own political journey began in my early 20s as a Pat Buchanan conservative who avidly supported his insurgent populist bid for the Republican presidential nomination that year.

Graham entered the Senate in January 2003, three months after Buchanan cofounded this magazine as a much-needed conservative outlet opposing any potential war with Iraq. Three months after Graham became a senator, the U.S. invaded Iraq.

For all of that time, through the Clinton, Bush-Cheney, Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies, right up until Saturday, Graham was arguably the most vociferous advocate in Congress for the neoconservative vision of American foreign policy. More than even most other neocons, Graham thirsted for U.S. intervention anywhere, at any time, for virtually any reason, and at any cost, including lives, foreign or domestic.

In this light, I can't help but remember now how cheap Graham considered the lives of so many others throughout his entire political career.

In the early years of the U.S.–Iraq war, Graham was less distinguishable from other Republicans, almost all of whom considered unquestioning support for the war their core party identity.

But by 2008, the country had significantly soured on the war (by then, 63 percent of Americans were calling it a mistake), the Democrats had a rock star presidential candidate in then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, whose primary campaign message included a resounding rejection of Bush-Cheney and particularly the Iraq boondoggle.

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Editor's note: One way to look at Graham's death if the Russians did hit the drone facility in Kiev with a missile killing Graham, maybe it was an indirect hit on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for all the havoc they have created for Russia in Ukraine? Professor Ted Postol of MIT, a physicist and Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security and an expert on weapon systems, particularly missiles, nuclear weapons, etc. He says the newest Patriot's (PAC-3) actual success rate based on objective analysis (and not the bullshit propaganda from US weapons manufacturers) is usually ZERO and some days if they get lucky more like 2%-3% and that's only for the slower moving missiles and drones. Patriot, THAAD, Iron Dome, David's Sling, etc... are all massive financial scams that stop almost nothing. They're there for false reassurance as the Gulf states just shit their pants because Iran is using the Chinese-developed Beidou navigation system that replaced GPS, and for transferring billions of dollars to the Military Industrial Pedophile Complex.

The Russians obviously took him out but the U.S. doesn’t want to wage war with Russia so they’re claiming it was a “sudden illness”. This cover up reaction by the U.S. tells us everything. We clearly don’t feel capable to take on Russia or another power militarily. Tables have… https://t.co/sov5RUuX0V

— Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 (@KimIversenShow) July 12, 2026