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Title: Lindsey Graham says U.S. Must Prepare to Attack Iran
Source:
McClatchy
URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26415.htm
Published: Sep 22, 2010
Author: James Rosen
Post Date: 2010-09-22 01:10:53 by abraxas
Keywords: None
Views: 544
Comments: 46
Lindsey Graham says U.S. Must Prepare to Attack Iran By James Rosen September 21, 2010 "McClatchy " WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — and added that the last-resort step should be taken with the goal of overthrowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Graham, a military lawyer and a senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, became the first senator to support direct U.S. military intervention in Iran, saying it should not involve ground troops but be launched by U.S. warplanes and ships. "If you use military force against Iran, you've opened up Pandora's box," Graham told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "If you allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, you've emptied Pandora's box. I'd rather open up Pandora's box than empty it." Graham's unusual public support for overturning Ahmadinejad and the ruling council of Shiite Muslim clerics that he nominally heads recalled President George W. Bush's controversial policy of regime change to invade Iraq in 2003 and overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein. Graham was a prominent supporter of the Iraq war, though he criticized Bush and former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld for sending too few U.S. troops. Obama aides on the National Security Council declined to comment Monday on Graham's remarks about Iran. State Department aides said Obama will discuss Iran on Thursday during his address to the U.N. General Assembly. Graham said he believes Ahmadinejad "was lying" when he said Sunday in New York, after arriving for the U.N. General Assembly session this week, that Iran isn't building a nuclear bomb. "From my point of view, if we engage in military operations as a last resort, the United States should have in mind the goal of changing the regime," Graham said. "Not by invading (Iran), but by launching a military strike by air and sea." Such an attack would be aimed not only at eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities, Graham said, but at rendering Ahmadinejad's government powerless. In order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said, a U.S. attack would be preferable to an Israeli attack because the American military is more powerful and more likely to achieve regime change. Graham's aides later said his reference to regime change entailed both the overthrow of Ahmadinejad and the removal of the Islamic clerics that many analysts believe at least partially control him. The U.S. opposition to Teheran's construction of a nuclear power plant in the southern Iran city of Bushehr dates to the Clinton administration in the 1990s. Obama, like Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him, has failed to persuade Russia not to help Iran build the Bushehr plant and then provide fuel for it. Iran and Russia say the plant, which recently began operating, will produce nuclear-fueled electricity for peaceful use. The United States believes that Iran's ultimate intention is to convert the fuel to weapons-grade plutonium in order to create nuclear arms.
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#1. To: abraxas (#0)
Lindesy is the end result of putting a knob polisher in power. Is there any Southern pride left? Retire this clown.
There you go again, trying to work within the system. Tie his pink ass to a missile and lob it into Iran. Lets get it on. hehehehehe
Cyni, you know as well as I do "when we get it on" very few will stand up. They'll scatter at the first crack of gun fire - this despite all their online bravado. They simply haven't been in a fire fight before and many will soil their pants should it happen. When "we get it on" we'll each be alone, to make that decision and I just don't have faith in Americans to fight. So, until we each have to make that decision, I say dump the fag for someone who more closely places America first.
You realize of course that you are sitting at the systems poker table, your life is your only stake, and they hold all the cards???? Most of the people here are hedging their bets on the future, preparing for the worst of times, ALL OF THEM ARE ANTICIPATING THAT "THEY" WILL SURVIVE. When crunch time arrives, and it will, the huge majority will be squished like unwanted bugs. If you are in the majority of the 99 per cent of useless eaters, count on it, you are a bug. With that in mind, a thinking man would consider getting in a parting shot at the dealers before he cashes in.
5-10% might/will. As we wait, what harm does it do to relegate Lindsey to some carnival sideshow?
#32. To: Jethro Tull (#30)
"Aiding and abetting generally means to somehow assist in the commission of a crime, or to be an accomplice. It involves a plan to commit a crime or to commit acts, the probable consequences of which are criminal. An accomplice may assist or encourage the main offender with the same intent to have the crime committed, but does not necessarily have to be present when the crime is actually committed. However, without sharing the criminal intent, one who is merely present when a crime occurs and stands by silently is not an accomplice, regardless of the harm that could've been prevented if he/she had acted.
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#19. To: hondo68 (#1)
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#19)
Retire this clown.
#28. To: Cynicom (#22)
#29. To: Jethro Tull, randge, abraxas, christine, All (#28)
Cyni, you know as well as I do "when we get it on"
#30. To: Cynicom (#29)
With that in mind, a thinking man would consider getting in a parting shot at the dealers before he cashes in
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