Graham: Not bombing Syria = Iran-Israel War in six months

[DSUrocks07]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/0 ... six-months

With all the Republicans who have switched sides on the question of what to do in Syria, it's almost refreshing to see Sen. Lindsey Graham continue to sing the old hawk ballads like they never went out of style. His bottom-line argument is that we need to bomb Syria because if we don't Iran will build a nuclear weapon and go to war with Israel, possibly leading to the destruction of Charleston, South Carolina, or New York City.
I'm not even kidding. That is the actual argument he made to a local gathering of constituents:

Graham wound up his case on Syria intervention by raising the stakes considerably. He painted a frightening picture of cascading world events that would reverberate far beyond the borders of a civil war in one Middle Eastern country.
If the United States doesn't deal with Syria, Graham promised Iran would acquire a nuclear weapon by 2014, the King of Jordan would be deposed and Israel would start preparing to protect itself.

"I believe that if we get Syria wrong, within six months -- and you can quote me on this," Graham said, pausing for dramatic effect. "There will be a war between Iran and Israel over their nuclear program."

But it wouldn't even end there, Graham surmised. Undoubtedly, he said ominously, the Iranians would share its nuclear technology with U.S. enemies.

"My fear is that it won't come to America on top of a missile, it'll come in the belly of a ship in the Charleston or New York harbor," he said.

Beat those war drums!!!

not bombing syria will cause a rogue asteroid to hit the earth and destroy all life in the universe.

[ASUG8]

Lindsay (sthpelled with a lithsp ) is trying to raise his stock in Congress mostly simply to hear his own voice. The Israelis won't do anything without Big Brother unless they're attacked, then we're in yet another pickle as far as supporting their efforts. I don't think Iran wants a full blown conflict with the US or a US/Israeli alliance in conventional warfare - they've witnessed that our Achille's heel is urban warfare like we've done for the last 10+ yrs. They'd get Russian backing, and we'd be looking at WWIII.

But lacking a missile based delivery system a container ship laden with nukes at a major shipping port wouldn't seem too unreasonable for the Iranians. Jacksonville, Newport News, Savannah, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, or the Panama Canal could all be potential targets. If we were nuked on our own soil I hate to think of what we'd rain down on Iran - it would make Hiroshima-Nagasaki look like a couple of firecrackers.

[ASUMountaineer]

We have our own moron politicians in NC, but thank God I'm not represented by John McCain's fanboi. Lindsey Graham is a useless piece of a trash, and his lust for war is dangerous.

[Pwns]

Is it me or are the most entrenched members of congress the most hawkish? Pelosi, McCain, Graham, etc.