Sen. Lindsey Graham recently objected to President Barack Obama seeking congressional authorization to attack Syria (that’s right, in contradiction to every assumption James Madison may have made about Congress, Graham is one of those who wants to embrace an Imperial Presidency and gut the check on power represented by his own branch). Graham has been making it clear that he is not happy about the failure to join another war in the Middle East. So what does a hawk do when a war just doesn’t turn out as hoped? Graham is seeking authorization for a new war . . . not against Syria but Iran. After all, we have not defunded enough environmental, scientific, educational or welfare programs. Another war against one of the largest military powers in Middle East would guarantee a decade of military appropriations and interventions.
Graham is likely to be supported by an Israeli lobby which wants the United States to neutralize the threat posed by Iran as well as those military contractors who are apoplectic at the thought of peace breaking out. In other words, he might succeed despite polls showing overwhelming opposition to additional wars within the public.
Graham for his part is using the failure to go to war in Syria as something we just need to avoid next time: “Look how we’ve handled the chemical weapons threat in Syria,. If we duplicate that with the Iranians, they’re going to march toward a nuclear weapon and dare Israel to attack them. . . . The mixed message and the debacle called Syria can’t be repeated when it comes to Iran,” Graham continued. “So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to get a bipartisan coalition together.” For his part, Obama went public with a warning to Iran and the willingness to go with a diplomatic solution will not apply to their country.
The resolution is of course a repeat of the blank check given by Democrats and Republicans to Bush to start the Iraq War. That worked out so well for everyone that members like Graham are falling over each other to lay the groundwork for a war that will make Iraq look like a small police action.
As a nation we are so screwed. 🙂
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-20/friday-unhumor-imorons
Bron,
“The box” meaning your mind?
Bruce,
No, I’m not an isolationist.
There’s only thing that keeps me from advocating beating the hell out of every country with a tiny defense budget.
Should we do it by the country’s name, in alphabetical order?
There’s a real danger, here, of forgetting which countries we’ve already bombed and/or invaded and/or overthrown. There are so many, I’m losing track.
Partial list, just since WW II:
Korea, Iran, Cuba, Dominican Republic, North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Granada, Panama, Haiti, Iraq, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Libya, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan.
That’s a lotta love distributed to a lotta countries.
I mean, we’ve already become confused enough to invade Iraq twice!
Robin:
Hope you feel better after the treatments. Cheer up !
Glenn:
I did earlier today.
Bob:
Just thinking outside the box. 🙂
Bron,
Have to hand it to you. You are a wild man.
Thanks for the laugh.
Gene, I was thinking some of his female staffers might be tough.
Its the same game that Dr. Anthony Sutton wrote about and the WSJ reported on from time to time…the WSJ of March 31, 2009 p. A3 reported
that from 1997-2007 four countries including Syria and Iran received
$55. million from a US supported program promoting peaceful use of nuclear energy…according to the GAO…the US and European companies have been selling sophisticated technology and arms to potential adversaries and dictators and communists for decades…why would we sell this technology or arms
to the sponsors of terrorism and then 10 years later American boys have
to fight these wars to take these dictators out??? Its a viscious cycle….and game that someone is controlling…
http://www.prisonplanet.com/governments-hire-web-trolls-to-sway-public-opinion.html
Yes Lindsey Graham, Mad Dog McCain, Obama, Bushs/Clintons, etc…, all are mentally ill, hopelessly insane, but like fleas/ticks/parasites on a dog how do we get rid of them?
Bron, before or after 911 we as a nation should have, even now, went to war against the Wallst/City of London Banks/Insur Co’s.
That’s the real enemy of our nation!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-with-charlie-rose-the-meaning-of-non-interventionism.html
Bron, Take your meds………
Well, that’s water under the bridge at this point. We should have taken out the Saudi’s and the Iranians after 9/11 when we could have done so without much trouble from the international community.
Lindsey’s just 12 years behind the curve. It is now too late unless Iran does something stupid or the US grows a pair and tells the religious dictators to either leave or die.
The Just War theory didnt work in Iraq and Afghanistan and wont work with Iran.
The war with Iraq could have been over in 6 months had Bush been willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Both the House of Saud and the Mullahs should have been removed from power and a provisional US government set up, as we did in Japan, to transform those countries.
I am betting it would have worked in Iran, probably not so much in Saudi Arabia.
Another Gold Star for Lindsey on the AIPAC scoreboard.
This is not solely on Graham, or his protective older brother McCain. This on on you, South Carolina. Does your military largess mean so much to you that uncountable thousands of deaths mean nothing?
Graham and McCain should be the first two to suit up for the wars they so avidly seek.
The pliably supine lickspittle known as Lindsey Graham and his depraved congressional ilk are keen on abdicating their congressional authority and sending other peoples loved ones off to kill and die for their bankrupt ideology.
What I meant about my last post was, I think somebody better wake up ole Lindsey, he thinks Mitt won cause “FOX NEWS” told him so……..
If Dubya had gotten his way with Iraq with flowers thrown at our feet, He would have bombed Iran first thing in the morning. Graham is only pushing what they would do if ole Mitt was in charge…
forgot to add i will be back later on tonight to comment on the rest of the articles… im off to be poisoned with radiation via chemo now waving at everyone as i head out the door