The recent spate of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthis has resulted in more and more Congressional calls for the US military to act. Even after dozens of incidents, which have effectively closed the vital waterway to regular ship transit, the US Navy has not been authorized by the Biden administration to hit back directly on Houthi launch positions.
Some Republican hawks are clamoring for confrontation with Tehran, also at a moment that Iran’s most powerful poxy in the region – Lebanese Hezbollah – is engaging in daily fire at Israel’s northern border. Sen. Lindsey Graham is leading the charge, urging for the Pentagon bomb Iran directly in response to the Houthi Read Sea attacks. In an appearance on Fox & Friends days ago, he went so far as to say Iranian bases and oil fields should be blown “off the map”. Watch:
“Without Iran there are no Houthis,” he claimed in the Wednesday segment. “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.”
Predictably, Graham also lashed out at the Biden administration for holding back, even as some Pentagon leaders have quietly complained they are being handcuffed in terms of inability to respond:
“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,” the Senator from South Carolina added.
Graham has previously in the wake of the Oct.7 Hamas terror attacks advocated for Israel hitting back against Palestinian militants as hard as possible, controversially saying saying there’s “no limit” to how many civilians can be killed while trying to root out Hamas.
Here’s what he told CNN at the end of October:
CNN: “Is there a threshold for you, and do you think there should be one for the United States government, in which the US would say, ‘Let’s hold off for a second in terms of civilian casualties?’”
Graham said: “No. If somebody asked us after world war two, ‘Is there a limit what would you do to make sure that Japan and Germany don’t conquer the world? Is there any limit what Israel should do to the people who are trying to slaughter the Jews?’”
“The answer is no. There is no limit,” Graham emphasized at the time. He described at the time that he would like to see Israeli military planners “be smart” and “try to limit civilian casualties the best we can. Let’s put humanitarian aid in areas that protect the innocent. I’m all for that.” Since then, many more thousands of Gazan civilians have died, many of them children.
Commenting on the fresh Fox interview in which the senator essentially called for war with Iran, the outlet Citizen Free Press echoed what many are thinking, simply stating “Lindsey Graham is a maniac.”
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RESIST
Hey Lindsay, are the Houthis more like the Germans and Japanese whom we beat or are they more like the Viet Cong and Taliban whom we didn’t beat?
My thoughts, exactly.
He has to go back 80 years to find the last was “we” won.
One thing ole Lindsay is expert at is blowing.
He wants to blow Iran off the map cue he can no longer blow his boyfriend Songbird McShitStain.
Betcha that fucking old fool can’t blow out the candles on his birthday cake.
Make Americas Borders Great Again
This is the answer but, just try to list all of the ways they seperate us. Too many ways to count.
If it ever happens…It’s going to take lots of force and violence to get many millions to leave their luxurious taxpayer funded accommodations …
Oh, they will be out trying to figure out why their EBT cards don’t work…
Does the word never resonate?
I was hoping this was from Babylon Bee. Unfortunately not.
“We beat the Germans and the Japanese. We should be able to beat the Houthis.”
What a fucking numbskull. That was 80 years ago. In more recent news, we lost to the Taliban – now he wants to fight Iran – a country of 80 million that has advanced technology – like the cheap drones Russia is using to beat our proxy in the Ukraine. We can’t even keep the Ukraine supplied with artillery shells.
You don’t have a war because you can win it. What about principles?
My principles are I’m against murdering children…go Houthis!
Isn’t everyone someone’s child?
The Houthis don’t mind murdering children, or even sacrificing their own to the cause as martyrs of the Holy Jihad. These attackers intend to rob, rape, torture, and kill ALL jews any way they possibly can, so they deserve no special treatment. Why not just kill all these suicide attacker-pirates in self-defense — and let Allah sort them out in the afterlife?
The various terrorist cells will eventually all have to be taken down, but one at a time. Otherwise ALL of the violent organizations (HAMAS, Houthi, ISIS,ISIL, etc), and even entire Islamic Nations
couldwill soon join forces to attack the USA!Not my problem.
You’re a little bit touched, ain’t you, Mystic?
Touched by Pharisaic apostacy.
you can always tell when someone says ‘mystic’ but they mean ‘kabbala’
Those children you are talking about have no problem murdering you.
Fighting a war you know you will lose leaves a country destroyed and in forever debt. It also causes the loss of a swath of the populace a nation needs to live.
Make Graham LITERALLY lead the charge. Drop him in and invite any of the other warmongers *cough*Nimrata*cough* to go with. See how long they last.
Lady G: the Cuckservative Warpig Tranny
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction
As everyone should know, despite this lying reporter, the Red Sea is only closed to Israeli connected shipping, lots of ships go through there every day…Big shipping companies are now making secret deals to boycott Israel so they can go through there…All the Houthis ask is a ceasefire and humanitarian relief for the Gazans….
The Houthis should just mind their own business!
You’re a complete fucking moron.
Houthis are Iran’s proxy. Iran is not interested in “minding their own business.”
And our “government” is all about funding Iran with YOUR money.
“mind their own business”
Nigga please.
The uSA failed to draw Iran into the fight
So they have USA paid agents launching drones and missiles at uSA ships, but the “attacks” are being blamed on “Iran backed forces”
You see? If you won’t be provoked… …teamusa will provide a staged provocation for you, and blame you anyway.
I’ll bet Lindsey Graham reaks like that urine smell at an assisted living facility.
Or Sniffy Joe Biden just before his 10am diaper change.
Things are getting ready to pick up in Ukraine, believe they just crossed a red line of sort.
https://www.rt.com/russia/589949-belgorod-attack-dead/
Happy New Year!
I’d like to urge those around Lindsey to do something…
WE try every time and he stills gets put back in……
Talk about “rigged”. Same with Cornyn in Texas. Now tell me republicOns don’t “rig”. Horse hockey.
I often think that Admin’s whole raison d’etre, not to mention his main joie de vivre, is the little tags he puts into the sidebar of his articles.
They are both a priceless addition as well as a horrendously underappreciated facet of this website.
Often, you don’t even need to read the article, since he has already boiled it down to its essentials in his sidebar tags.
“Lindsay Graham is a FAG.”
Keep looking, TBP’ers. You’ll see so many wonderful additions.
The tags Admin puts at the end of his own articles are the absolute best.
People should mind their health.
It is so easy to catch a sicario sickness these days.
I see.
Good one!
What needs to be blown off the map, is Lindsey’s house…. with him in it….
That square-jawed, hairy-chested Lindsey will be suited up and leading the charge as usual. Rambo-Graham finally getting into the fight will turn the tide.
Lindsey is a warmongering jerk. Scum . How does he keep getting elected?
We are all Houthis now.
You got that right…
Hey, SC! Please PLEASE stop visiting Lindsey Graham on us term after term! Uncle! UNCLE!
All homosexuals are psychopaths…no doubt about it.
For the sake of the sailors who will go to their watery graves, I hope nothing happens.
Old Lindsey Ghramnisty has never seen a war he doesn’t like or want to send your kids to I really wonder what is wrong with this guy he is always going to do this or that but when it comes right down to it he does nothing he is all blow and no go in more ways than one
Lady Graham has found his voice…it used to be difficult for it to speak with John McCains cock lodged in it’s throat.
“Go after the RINOs” was my favorite speech of 2023 by Trump while he was flanked onstage by RINOs, Graham & Joe Wilson.
If Trump were President Iran would not have to be warned, they would know exactly what he would do and there would be no proxy attacks on Americans the Middle East.