Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 02:35.
This is the kind of crazy shit we have to look forward to with the Republicans taking over rule of America and "The World" again - what did that Iraq war still raging cost us so far in $trillions... and 100,000s of lives... and disruption to the global economy and state of being, again?
A war with Iran. Good idea. Good for Blackwater!
Published: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 2:00 AM
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.
Aides to President Barack Obama on the National Security Council declined to comment Monday on Graham's remarks about Iran.
State Department aides said Obama would discuss Iran on Thursday during his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
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