Plenty of folks don't like Senator Lindsay Graham. And truth be told I don't much either.
He's called a "warmonger", and not without reason. His critics say: "You won't find a place on this earth that Lindsay wouldn't like to bomb".
Ok. Fair enough.
But... on this issue. On the big one happening right now, on Operation Epic Fury -- to destroy the capacity of the religious lunatics in Tehran to destroy the world in the name of Allah -- on that one issue, talking on the floor of the Senate, he gives as good a summary as I've seen of the case for this war.
A war, by the way, to stop a bigger war, to stop WW3. A war, an Operation, to end the war that Iran declared against Israel and the US, way back in 1979.
Here's a transcript from Grok, of the first five minutes:
Senator Graham:
OK, I'll go ahead and get started.
You're entitled to your opinion. This is a free country. Whether you like President Trump or not is up to you. Your view of the war is up to you, but you're not entitled to your facts. You're entitled to the facts. And here are the facts.
To my Democratic colleagues, I challenge you today uh to prove that I'm wrong.
During the negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear problem, President Trump sent Steve Woodoff and Jared Kushner to negotiate with the Iranians. They say, Mr. President, all they want is peaceful nuclear power. The Iranians, they've been saying that and they should be entitled to enrich like other countries like us.
A bunch of nations enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. And they claim, why not us? Because you're cheap. The IAEA, not me, not Lindsey Graham. You've have a history of not living up to what you say about your ambitions. That your enrichment facilities are not designed to produce peaceful power, but to produce a weapon.
So during the negotiations, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner offered the Iranians, listen, if you'll give us your highly enriched uranium, we will guarantee you a lifetime fuel supply for free. That you can have all the spent fuel you need to operate a peaceful power program. You don't need to enrich. And if you want to enrich for medical purposes, very limited, fine. But you can't have an enrichment program that would lead to making bomb braid material because you're not reliable.
And I would go a step further.
It'd be like letting Hitler have anything. See the difference between me and I think a lot of people here, maybe most Democratic colleagues, I think these guys are religious Nazis. Miller Hitler wanted a master race. He wrote a book. Nobody believed him. He literally wanted to kill all the Jews and nobody believed him.
The Ayatollah is the same. The the regime is built around a cult of death. They want three things. To purify Islam, they're Shi'ites. Their number one enemy is Sunni Arabs. They think they're they've got the faith wrong, that they're that they're traitors to the faith. They hate Sunnis because they're not true to the faith.
And Saudi Arabia believes it.
So they want to purify Islam, bend it to their will, make every Sunni reject their view of Islam and accept the Ayatollah's view. That's what they say, not me. I believe it.
Number two, they want to kill all the Jews. And they openly say it. They're not hiding their disdain for Israel. They're actually talk about it. They put death to Israel on like milk cartons. These people are serious. and you should take them serious.
Like in the 30s, people didn't want to believe that Hitler meant what he said because they were tired from World War I. And they said, "Oh, he's just all talk. He wants this. He wants that. He wants more German-speaking territory. He's not completely crazy. You know, he's sort of just doing the Hitler thing."
Well, he was completely crazy.
Now, I don't know why he wanted to kill all the Jews. I don't know why Hitler thought the Aryan race is the only pure race on the planet, but a lot of people are dead because we got that wrong. Let's don't do that again. We're playing like World War II never actually happened. And you're rewriting this regime's history from 1979. What have they done until today? What have they done to make you think they don't believe what they say? What behavior have they exhibited that they really do want to be normal?
So during those negotiations when they said no to every offer under the sun, they said something that was a fatal mistake for them. "Oh, by the way, we have 460 kilograms of uranium at 60%".
Cliffhanger, right? Carry on from here if you're interested in the rest. It's a pretty good!
