We Did Iwo Jima, We Can Do This!' Lindsey Graham Calls on Trump to 'Take Kharg Island
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a longtime hawk on Iran, told Fox News's Shannon Bream Sunday that the U.S. should seize control of Kharg Island, which has been described as "the point of departure for approximately 90 percent of Iran's oil exports."
Earlier this month, President Donald Trumpbragged about obliterating "every military target in Iran's crown jewel, Kharg Island."
Trump's Truth Social post continued, saying, "for reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision."
On Sunday, as the Strait of Hormuz remained essentially shut down due to Iran's strikes on oil tankers, Trump threatened the Islamic State: Open the Strait or face U.S. strikes on the nation's power plants.
Graham said he told Trump that to permanently incapacitate Iran, he needed to "take Kharg Island, where they have all of the resources they have to produce oil."
Bream asked if Graham's plan would involve U.S. troops on the ground, citing an article in The Atlantic warning of a "grinding war of attrition" because troops would be far away from necessary resupply.
"I'm sort of tired of all this arm chair quarterbacking," Graham said. "This has been an amazing military operation. God bless the fallen."
"But, it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground," Bream pushed back.
"I trust the Marines, not that guy," Graham said of The Atlantic writer. "I trust DOD. We've got two marine expeditionary area units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima, we can do this. The Marines, my money's always on the Marines."
"I don't know if you take the island or you blockade the island, but I know this: The day we control that island, this regime, this terrorist regime, has been weakened and it will die on a vine," Graham said, adding, "I want to take up and complete what [Joe] Biden started. As soon as we get Iran defanged so they can never do another October 7th, I want to start up peace talks between Saudi and Israel. This year, I want a peace deal between Saudi and Israeli normalizing ending the Arab-Israeli conflict — been going on for 2,000 years this year — and you can't do it with a lethal Iran."
Watch the clip above via Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream.
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Everyone trusts the Marines, but I believe they had about 25,000 casualties on Iwo Jima.
What a jackass! Yes, we did Iwo Jima - at the cost of 7,000 dead Americans and 20,000 wounded. But this asshole makes it sound like building a paper airplane or something. He’s not even worried about dead or wounded Americans. He just wants another chance to suck Trump’s dick.
Iwo Jima is approximately 760 miles from mainland Japan and Japan at the time was reeling from 4 years of war. The defenders fought to almost the last man.
out of 18,000 only 216 were captured.
Kharg Island is 15 miles off the coast of Iran.
If invaded, Iran will truly show Mr.Trump the definition of "obliterate" assuming the Marines could make it to the beaches at all.
Iran could fire Howitzers and HIMARS non stop for days.
It's the stupidest idea yet from Graham, Trump, or Netanyahu & Putin.
Amazing how brave and footloose these fcks are with the lives of our servicemen, the billions and Billions of our tax dollars, and our total descent as leader of the world.
How many future terrorists has this ridiculous unnecessary incursion, all to deflect from Trump n cump perversion, as the their actions have certainly proven to be quite the diversion, created ?
This horror show that true ignorance and stupidity darn did and has done put on display, has been the decapitation of the USA.
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After year after year of LIES and Corruption, the reelection of this dereliction of duty who avoided his call of, amazing how freely he plays with the precious lives of our countrymen and women, while he and his oligarchy buddy's, many of whom are in the Epstein files as well as Trump himself, profit from this distraction that is a whole number above a fraction, as the would be king of sleaze and STD disease fcks with almost any and every thing once sacred to this nation, and it is a total desecration to our flag draped Constitution, as this verbal act of pollution a tempts De Jesus Christ to fund raise off of our fallen soldiers arriving home in flag draped coffins. This was done even after the latest families of the fallen had requested and had Callen, pleading that their be privacy for their deceased family members. UnFCKNbelievable, as even for Trump, another new low, how far will this pos be allowed to go, cause to hell not quick enuff....