Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for the US to bomb Iran in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, saying Iranian bases and oil fields should be blown “off the map.”
The hawkish senator claimed that without Iran, there would be no Houthis. But the Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, are a homegrown movement of Zaydi Shia Muslims. Zaydi Shia Imams ruled the area of north Yemen that the Houthis now control for about 1,000 years until 1962.
“Without Iran there are no Houthis,” Graham told Fox & Friends on Wednesday. “The Houthis are completely backed by Iran. I have been saying for six months now…hit Iran. They have oil fields out in the open, they have the Revolutionary Guard headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map.”
The Houthis have been targeting Israel-linked commercial shipping in the Red Sea and have made clear they will not stop until Israel ends its siege on Gaza. The US launched a military operation in response but has not targeted the Houthis directly, which would involve bombing Yemen.
Graham criticized the Biden administration for not bombing the Houthis, which would jeopardize a peace deal in Yemen. “We’re fighting the Houthis. We beat the Germans and the Japanese. We should be able to beat the Houthis. Secretary Austin and the Biden administration’s failing our troops in the field,” he said.
Known for his extremely hawkish rhetoric, Graham has been a staunch backer of Israel’s massacre in Gaza, previously saying there’s “no limit” to how many civilians Israel can kill. He also described the situation in Gaza as a “religious war” and called for Gaza to be completely leveled.
Graham is pure evil, fails to mention the Houthis have not killed anyone, just doing what the USA does all the time, using blockades. What about Israel, who is killing all living things in Gaza, should the USA be attacked, since Israel would not exist, if it wasn’t for the US? Graham belongs in an Insane Asylum, he wants to start WW111!
Its almost getting to be a requirement for a US Senator.
bingo
“fails to mention the Houthis have not killed anyone” So far, but that is luck not a plan.
The U.S. has no business in that part of the world, so it’s irrelevant what you or any other Ugly American things about the Houthis.
What a silly argument. If you understood international commerce, which you don’t, you would know how vital international shipping is.
Gee, I guess you’re the adult in the room. NOT!!! I understand all I need to know about international commerce and shipping, and I totally oppose it for environmental reasons alone. I fully understand what the Houthis are doing, and I also understand that the U.S. is an evil empire with its military marauding all over the world, including the portion at issue here.
Piracy by boat or shore based missiles is stil lpiracy.
Really? What about piracy by colonization and empire? Look in the mirror and don’t be an Ugly American.
Houthis evicted the last few remaining Jews of Yemen. Were they not also human?
Graham is one of those deranged psychopaths who gets off on sadism and murder.
Agreed,our government is full of them
How can this sorry excuse of a human being be a US Senator? Unbelievable! How would Graham feel if he was subject to what Palestinians have been subject to all these years? Looks like Graham may have done something in his past that Israel is blackmailing him for! Normal human beings, let alone a US Senator, do NOT talk like this!
He is like this about all wars, he does not need to be blackmailed. His bloodlust is constant.
“Normal human beings, let alone a US Senator, do NOT talk like this!”
You’re half right. Normal human beings don’t. Senators do. All. of. the. time.
So does neocon house members…!
The Demopublican party. Groveling for money is what politicians do. They do not seek morality, just winning the next election so they can jack off and do nothing for the people. Nothing. Except for the MIC and AIPAC (Which should be registered as a foreign agent).
Sorry, I noticed a typo. “Graham is
one of those deranged psychopaths who gets off on sadism and murder*Senator Genocide*.”Lol
Senator slug. With a voracious appetite for money.
Funny how calling for mass murder of Palestinians and Iranians and Yemenis is fine, but “from the river to the sea” is banned. Guess Republicans aren’t as “free speechy” as they have been claiming to be for the last 6 years
Favorite Graham factoid: his vaunted military service consisted as serving as lawyer for Air Force in Germany for 6+ years. Nice and safe. So never in actual conflict. After this he was in Air National Guard until he became So Carolina senator in 2002. Closest he seems to have come to conflict is as a reservist in 1995 during which per his bio he made “numerous short-term Reserve duties in [Iraq and Afghanistan]. Again, as a lawyer.
Graham was born in the ashes of WWII and wants to leave in the ashes of WWIII.
Accurate but not funny.
Six feet under is where he belongs…!
Lady Lindsey is one of many of these psychopathic D.C. politicians that love to fight wars from a safe distance. Biden has said numerous times that his son Beau died in Iraq when he actually died of brain cancer and was a Jag in the Navy and didn’t die in combat. These cowardly armchair warrior politicians have no problems starting and escalating wars that they have no intention on taking an active part in.
google = “He died after battling brain cancer, according to the vice president’s office.”
i will guess that Biden never lied about his son’s death.
if you find a link supporting your claim then i will be surprised.
Most everything he says is a lie. It’s just a matter of degree. The only times he speaks the truth, they have to walk it back. Same as when he was VP. I remember he blurted out that the Saudis were responsible for ISIS because they poured money into arming anyone who wanted to take out Assad. Of course, he apologized. I’m sure he was told to do so. If there were such thing as a devil, he has Biden’s soul.
Agreed
Just a couple…. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-political-analyst-repeats-one-of-joe-biden-s-most-abhorrent-lies/ar-AA1lAQDi https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-beau-death-claim-iraq-b2344269.html and another https://www.newsweek.com/video-joe-biden-son-beau-lost-life-iraq-viral-1751433
LOL. Spies are also professional liars. Love you, Spy! And Bill, all you need say is “wut” That’s all.
first link was BS however 2nd link was actual evidence of Joe making that claim. ok Bill color me surprised.
So I looked into it further and it appears that he probably did die from brain cancer. It remains a bit strange that someone with his resources went from 2013 to 2015 thinking he was in remission and planning to run for governor in 2016 then suddenly gets admitted for recurrence on May, 20, 2015 and dies in 10 days. Strange but not conclusive either way/still possible.
I see your point now, Spy. Wow. I am impressed. You’re not the average Spy after all.
I’m pretty sure I remember seeing a video of Biden claiming that his son died in Iraq.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Graham and the likes of him are now villains.
Lindsay seems to be facinated by the thought of people, other than himself, dying in far-off lands for something Lindsay believes in.
Personally I would rather bomb South Carolina for giving us Lindsay Graham.
Military influence runs deep in South Carolina, hell, the U.S. Military Offense Industry covers the whole world. I believe that will change in the near future as many countries have had enough of the U.S. bullying and want out from under the U.S. boot. Of course, the U.S. empire may take us to WW3 trying to hold onto their failing empire.
Pieces and parts of military weapons are manufactured all over the U.S. Therefore, a decent Senator who is antiwar would get nowhere in shutting it down because it would mean constituents losing their jobs. Pretty good strategy by the MIC. Occupy states so the killing machine lives.
I was a long-distance trucker 1978-1983 and I spent time everywhere. South Carolina was the most racist state in the south when I was there. It seemed that they hadn’t outlawed slavery yet by the white people’s attitudes. It was easy to see why this was the state that started the Civil War. Hopefully it’s not still like that, haven’t been there for over 40 years.
My brother bought a 2nd home in Bluffton S.C. I visited him a few times over the years.It has not changed much. The rednecks are more dangerous then the gators and snakes.
My brother and his wife retired in the Greenville area a year or two ago. They said that area is not very southern, because a lot of things were built that that brought in out -of-state workers, so it doesn’t have that southern culture and attitude. I still won’t go there to visit because I don’t want anything to do with that state, but that area might be less horrible than the rest of the state.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Graham said he hopes someone in Russia will understand that Putin is “destroying Russia and you need to take this guy out by any means possible”
Now there is a thought. Only I’m thinking…….can’t say it out loud but it would involve someone in America and a US senator.
Why doesn’t senator volunteer to go to war with Iran himself…?
He is a lawyer who only served as a JAG officer.
You might say then that he’s a “Jag-Off”. Sorry, that was a cheap shot. Never mind, not sorry. 😉
Scoring points for AIPAC money. Graham is a slug. A money slug.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham”… The Joke of the Week…!
Insanity beyond Dr. Strangelove – Careful What You Start You know Not of the Blowback
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has gone off the deep end into insanity beyond Dr. Strangelove. He is even farther right than the most insane NEOCONs he associates with.
Insane Sen. John McCain lit into Russia and President Vladimir Putin , describing Russia as “a gas station masquerading as a country”!
Both John McCain and Lindsey Graham were/are despicable assoles masquerading as human beings!
Don’t forget Murphy, he stood on stage with a far right Nazi along side McCain, ginning up war. Klobuchar went instigating too, and of course Biden and henchmen Nuland and Pyatt.
Nuland is a real work. You would think that European nations would have taken notice when she said “f*ck the EU!”.
We are occupiers of Europe.
You would also think that Germany would have noticed when we blew up their pipeline.
I guess Europe has become a total vassal to the U.S. Germans are now paying 4 times more for energy since the U.S. blew up the pipeline. I’m surprised there wasn’t a revolt throwing the bums out of office.
Do you roll dice to come up with your fake multipliers, or is there some other method? In reality:
Price of electricity in Germany: 128.78 euros per megawatt hour in February of 2022; 91.18 euros per megawatt hour in November of 2023
Price of gasoline in Germany: 178.81 euro cents per liter in February of 2022; 187.17 euro cents per liter in October 2023
“Household gas prices in Germany halved year-on-year at start of heating period 2023”
No, I read and watch podcasts by those I trust. So what if there’s a temporary fall in prices? Read the final sentence in the blurb in the first link and stop cherry-picking facts that support your position. I have friends in Germany, and they had to move in with each other and burn wood for heat. Stop thinking that you know everything.
“Stop thinking that you know everything.”
That’s pretty rich coming from the guy who contantly pretends he’s diagnosed the entirety of not just human problems, but all problems, from the hunter-gatherer era on.
The “temporary fall in prices” started in the late summer of 2022 and has continued since.
And you get brain washed by those podcasts. Read some real serious history books.
The facts don’t work on people like Jeff.
And McCain was a war criminal, dropping bombs on innocent civilians. He’s lucky the North Vietnam government was far more moral than him and his government, or he would have been executed for what he did there.
Some how you don’t seem to understand that in war civilians get killed. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor which was a pure military attack, resulted in the death of 65 innocent civilians. Where all the pilots who attacked Pearl Harbor war criminals?
So what? The evil U.S. empire had NO BUSINESS in Vietnam to begin with. WWII events are totally irrelevant.
And BTW, I’m anti-war, so I oppose all this crap except for people defending themselves, which the U.S. has NEVER had to do (Hawaii is colonized land, and the U.S. has no more business there than Japan does).
The US, and not just its Hawaiian province, was built entirely on colonized land.
As is the case of pretty much every polity that’s ever grown beyond the size of a small village in history.
That may be a bad thing, but it’s unlikely to change on any world with an apex predator species.
That’s true, but it doesn’t have to be that way. While it’s a very small minority, some people focus on expanding their consciousness instead of being aggressive and harming the natural world. I’m thinking of traditional indigenous people and ascetic monks, to list two examples. I realize that people with our mentality and attitudes are a small fraction of 1% of humans, but my hope is that all humans evolve mentally and spiritually someday.
“Traditional indigenous people practice warfare-headhunters in New Guinea,American Plains Indians,Canaanite tribes mentioned in the bible,hereditary servitude in Africa.No saints anywhere, No romanticization.
Hunter-gatherers don’t destroy the natural environment and kill the life there by their mere existence like agriculturalists do. People who focus on expanding their consciousness, wisdom, and empathy don’t cause the harms that people who focus on ego, intellect, and unnaturally and very harmfully manipulating the physical/natural world for their own benefit. And the things that you mentioned are not at all common. For example, cannibalism is done ritually, not regularly. And hunter-gatherers war very little compared to agricultural people.
It’s very easy to call for war when you’re not going to be in the battlefields and others will die fighting your wars.
Give senator an AK-47 and ship him to middle east…!
Ship him to Somalia so he can be involved in Black Hawk Down II.
Give him an empty bowl and put him in a refugee camp in Gaza.
Yeah, comfortable in the knowledge that the U.S. has not been touched in two World Wars. At the same time, we feed wars, provoke wars abroad. We also war against nations that are inferior militarily. We did not “win” the two World Wars. Other parties did in WWI. The Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht during WWII, at a loss of 20+ million souls.
So USA did not defeat Japan in WW2? Who sank all those Japanese ships?
So we did not provide the USSR with equipment?,so we did not liberate Italy,France,Belgium,Holland ect? It was US forces in WWI who broke the deadlock on the Western Front with fresh troops and Marines ie- the “Devil Dogs”
October 11, 2023: Senator Lidsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday declared that “we’re in a religious war” and called for Israel to “level” the Gaza Strip, home to over 2 million people [-21,000 palestinians?], including about 1 million children [-15,000?].
“We’re in a religious war here. I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place,” Graham said on Fox News. The senator posted a clip of his call for the destruction of Gaza on X. (ANTIWAR.COM, Dave DeCamp, October 11, 2023)
Senator Graham is delusional.
Spoken like a true schlepper for the MIC. I’m sure his State’s Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, L3Harris, et al locations appreciate his efforts.
By Graham’s logic, other countries should bomb the U.S. for what Israel is doing in Gaza, destroying its entire fossil fuel infrastructure and all its domestic military bases. Hey, wait a minute! That’s sounds pretty good to me.
And this guy will be one of Trumps closest supporter and advisor if Trump wins a second term.
Maybe not! Even the Donald recognizes a slimy turn coat.
Graham turned on Trump the moment it seemed like he could make political points.
The same reason he supported Trump.
Yea right. Trump is such a great judge of character. LOL.
Careful you rderangment is showing!
Deranged Much?
Lindsey is a legend in his own mind. But I can’t help wondering if there are other adults who see him as someone with the emotional and intellectual maturity of a third-grader.
Mentally ill old man. Wants to end the earth before he goes.
Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls for US to Blow US ‘Off the Map’