Lindsey Graham Misses The Mark: Bush Was The Hitler (Rev 13:10)

Lindsey Graham says nuclear deal with Iran is as bad as appeasing HITLER
 
– and warns massive US troop deployment is needed to save Iraq from ISIS

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Cedar Rapids, Iowa
23:13 17 Jul 2015, updated 07:14 18 Jul 2015

Sen. Lindsey Graham painted a bleak picture of President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy on Friday during an Iowa campaign stop in Cedar Falls, saying his recent nuclear deal with Iran is ‘in the same category as believing that you could get a deal with Hitler.’

‘This is “peace in our time” on steroids,’ said Graham, a reference to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s infamous appeasement of the Nazi dictator – and subsequent boast – in 1938.
Graham, a Republican presidential candidate, also claimed that Obama’s withdrawal of American ground forces from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a chaotic power struggle in its wake that a new surge of U.S. troops would have to put in order.

‘The Obama administration is dangerously naive when it comes to the Mideast,’ said Graham, 60, ‘and have shown a level of incompetency that surpasses Jimmy Carter.’

Painting himself as a war hawk par excellence, the 20-year congressional veteran spelled out his terror-fighting philosophy: ‘When it comes to radical Islam, protecting your family, your friends, our way of life – whatever it takes, as long as it takes. I hope I’m clear.’

But the White House’s bargain with Tehran, he said, ‘is incredibly naive and tremendously dangerous’ and ‘comes from a weak-minded president.’

In exchange for Iran delaying for 10 years its pursuit of nuclear weapons, a group of developed nations including the U.S. agreed this week to lift tens of billions of dollars in economic sanctions, and to life arms and missile-technology embargos in the coming years.

‘I would not honor this deal,’ Graham pledged, looking forward to an Oval Office tenure.
‘I would not agree to give them one dime of money until they change their behavior. I would not allow them to buy one bullet until they change their behavior. I would dismantle their nuclear program, which was the original goal.’

He said that while he would be willing to help Tehran assemble a peaceful nuclear energy program, ‘I do object to large [uranium] enrichment programs in the hands of religious fanatics.’

Friday’s event was hosted by Americans for Peace, Prosperity, and Security, a GOP-linked organization that wants to force national security issues into the forefront of the debate over who will lead the U.S. beginning in 2017.

While he pledged to avoid the temptation to make terrorism a partisan issue, Graham said he had no qualms about making it about Islam.

‘To those who don’t believe this is a religious war, you are making a huge mistake,’ he said. ‘It is a religious war. The Nazis wanted a master race. These people want a master religion.’
‘Radical Islam is becoming more powerful, and somebody needs to put them in a box. The only reason 3,000 died on 9/11 is that they couldn’t get the weapons to kill 3 million of us. If they could, they would.’

‘I’m not trying to achieve peace with radical Islam,’ he added. ‘I’m trying to achieve their destruction. Because nothing else will work.’

A large part of that battle, he emphasized, must be fought in Iraq, a country the U.S. spilled blood to bring out of chaos, but then abandoned nearly four years ago.

‘If we had not stayed in Germany and Japan, only God knows what would have happened to the next generation,’ Graham said. comparing today’s Middle East with the end of World War II.
‘The decision to withdraw the 10,000 [troops] set in motion the rise of ISIL,’ he said, referring to the terror army, ‘of which the predecessor was “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”.’

His voice suddenly lower, Graham predicted troops would have to return in the same numbers.
‘To those who fought in Iraq, it breaks my heart to tell you that we’re going to have to go back, but we are,’ he said. ‘The soldiers did their job; the politicians screwed this up.’

‘It breaks my heart,’ the retired Air Force Reserves colonel said moments later.

‘It does matter what happens in Iraq. They’re coming here if we do not stop them over there. We need about 10,000 U.S. forces, not 3,500.’

Among the U.S. military tactics needed in Iraq, he said, would be ‘Special Forces units on the ground morning, noon and night, going after ISIL leadership, putting pressure on their leadership.’
‘When they’ve talked on the phone, when they got in the car, they’ll either die or be captured,’ Graham blared.

The senator also spelled out a scenario in which he would help moderate Arab countries oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad.


But he said he expected cultural transformations in return.

‘I will work with you to go into Syria,’ he said, describing an imaginary conversation with Arab nations.

‘But I ask you a few things: “Stop funding terrorism. Close these madrassas down. Let women drive.”‘

Actually, Babylon The Great Is The Biggest Threat To The World (Rev 17)

Lindsey Graham: Iran Nuclear Push Is ‘Biggest Threat to World’

Friday, 02 Jan 2015 03:03 PM

By Joel Himelfarb

One of Congress’ most prominent foreign policy voices has expressed alarm that Iran is moving towards becoming a military nuclear power like its longtime ally North Korea.
In an interview published Friday by the Israeli media outlet Israel Hayom, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he does not object to Iran having a nuclear energy program, but is  “very concerned” about Tehran’s uranium enrichment efforts becoming a path to atomic weapons capability.

Fifteen nations with nuclear power programs do not enrich uranium, Graham said.
That’s why I want any deal to come before Congress for our vote and approval. I fear a North Korea outcome,” he added.

The South Carolina Republican was referring to the last effort to regulate a rogue state’s nuclear ambitions – the case of  the communist regime in North Korea.

“Republicans and Democrats both bought into the idea that you could allow the North Koreans a small enrichment program and the U.N. would control the outcome,” Graham said. “Well, it didn’t work. They broke out. They have nuclear weapons.”

In Graham’s view, it is a mistake to treat the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the central threat to regional stability. The biggest problem, he said, is the Iranian nuclear threat.

“The Iranian nuclear ambitions are the biggest threat to the world in general,” he said. “Israel needs to be reassured that Congress will be there in an appropriate way.”

Graham emphasized that House and Senate Republicans who will be in the majority in the 114th Congress “will be pushing measures to make sure that the Iranian nuclear negotiations are handled properly, that sanctions are reimposed if the Iranians walk away from the table or if they cheat on any deal.”

Graham was scathing in his assessment of President Barack Obama’s performance in addressing an array of issues related to radical Islam and terrorism.

Obama “approached Iran with an open hand, not a clenched fist, but I think that his ‘leading from behind’ model has not served our national security interests well,” Graham said. “What you see is that after six years, there are more radical Islamic organizations than there were before 9/11, holding more territory, more safe havens, more money and more resources with which to strike the U.S. and our allies.”

Graham also emphasized that Congress will not support imposing sanctions against Israel over issues such as settlements, which should be resolved in negotiations with the Palestinians.

“When it comes to military assistance, economic assistance, Congress is firmly in Israel’s camp. There is absolutely no support in any segment of American political life to restrict aid to Israel. There is absolutely no support for the idea of sanctioning Israel over the settlement issue,” he said.”I just want the Israeli people to know that Congress does have your back,” Graham stated.