If anyone still thinks that America has learned not to listen to the neocons, putting republicans back in charge of congress should have put that notion to bed. What the hell is wrong with this country?

The time has come to get serious about these people. They fell it is just fine to wander about the globe inciting passions just to keep the pot boiling.

That was Bush's particular mandate.

The bunch of them are dangerous, as are all who preach the gospel of killing for dollars. We need to change enough of the system so that people in positions of power can not utter such evil nonsense with impunity. There must be recourse.

We vote, but not with our heads. It's kind of like doing the same thing every few years, and hoping for a different result.

Read "The israel Lobby" and you will see that israel, through AIPAC controls the foreign policy of the US. That is why we are fighting 2+ wars in the middle east and rattling sabers for a another. Qui bono? Listen to the eyewitness testimony of Lt. Col Karen Kwiatkowski, who said that israeli generals helped formulate the evidence against Iraq in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Remember the supposed meeting between Iraq and Al Qaeada in Prague, where Iraq supposedly gave anthrax to the terrorists? That story first appeared in the German newspaper Bild, who cited unnamed isreali intelligence sources. So yeah, scratch your head and wonder about why our foreign policy is so insane, but whatever you do, don't mention you know who.

We must not allow ourselves to be lied into another illegal and unethical war. We must not allow this country to be dragged int a conflict that the Israeli lobby wants ("Let's you and him run up the hill and take those guys on.")

If ANYONE pressures for a war on Iran, he must be the first to volunteer for active duty on the ground. And he must offer up his children before anyone else's.

If Graham and the Israelis want a war, let them make one - and let the United States cut off all aid for such an adventure.

I read this article with incredulity, as evidently did most of the others who posted responses. I have not read Senator Graham's speech and can only assume that Mr. Druss quotes Senator Graham correctly and in context.

To assume, as Senator Graham evidently does, that the United States can sink Iran's navy, destroy Iran's air force, and eliminate Iran's nuclear program with the same ease as that with which we buy a new cravat is to endow the word insanity with an entirely new dimension. How many hundreds of billions of dollars must we spend in this effort, Senator? How many tens of thousands of corpses will lie rotting upon the Iranian landscape? For how many decades, or perhaps centuries, must we fight the children, the grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren of those who will bear arms against us in this misbegotten adventure? Good God, has the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina lost his mind?

There is no doubt in my mind that, as Mr. Marlowe intimated below, the Israel-First-Last-and-Always (IFLaA) lobby is responsible for the content of Senator Graham's speech. The unhappy reality is that any well-organized and well-funded minority in this country can control congressional action in matters that pertain to itself, and there is no better organized lobby than the IFLaA.

Those of us who view the world differently might want to adopt a few of the tactics that have been used to such advantage by the IFLaA. Specifically, I propose that each of us write to his or her representative and to both of his or her Senators in opposition to the looming war with Iran. While we are doing so let us ask our elected representatives for a middle eastern foreign policy that is based upon rationality and a sense of justice rather than upon the mindless endorsement of everything the Israelis say, think, and do.

It is tragic and shameful that a member of our government would promote war. More so when we already have thousands of damaged recruits to care for now. If we go to any more aggressive wars let us hope that Graham is leading the charge.

Graham’s arrogant ignorance is just another sign of a decadent generation, which has substituted the civilized approach of dialogue and negotiation for outright confrontation. Bush and the republicans wasted a great opportunity to lead the world and make the US a true world leader. Obama is following the same path. The Chinese open markets everywhere, we open military bases. Our country is falling apart due a lack of leadership and incompetence. We are anchored in confrontation as a solution to everything, instead of construction. We claim that we buried “communism”, but Graham and his likes are burying our country, making the same mistakes they made. The incapacity of our system to secure the population most elemental human needs should be seen as a sign of weakness. The use of force is a sign of weakness. The last resort of those whose ideas are not longer persuasive.

Those of you who just
voted the same far right charlatans back into power that made a mess of the country--this is exactly what you empowered with your vote.

Let's hope Obama comes down on Graham in a way he'll never forget.

Senator Graham , you " Sir " and I use the term loosely, are a sick psychopath . Obviously your rants are made to please the Zionists so that you stay in their favor . People like you are not concerned about all the innocent lives lost with an all out WAR in Iran or even young innocent U.S. boys that are sent in harms way while you and yours stay at home attending cocktail parties and dining in fine restaurants . You " Sir " sold your soul for 10 Silver Sheckels . You are a TRAITOR . Never forget :
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I think the next person who wants war and those who vote for war should be the first ones to go to war.

I'm from Canada & I never thought the Jewish lobby would ever be as strong in Canada as it is in the USA; I was wrong & Corporate power is also as strong so we are a good place to give Zionist speeches. The population is not quite as dumbed down---yet; but real headway has been made. If we just had a few more churches we could be as nutty. As to the Iran war; it ain't gonna happen & I'll give you some reasons why. Number one would be the "Noor" anti ship missile "which the US will not have the codes for as the British did when the French builders gave them to the Brits. in the Falklands. With these hidden in the mountainous coast they will be easily able to sink a few oil freighters. After that, you will not be able to buy insurance to ship oil in the region so buy your bicycle now. The Iranians will start some serious meddling in Afghanistan, starting with modern "Stingers" & you can kiss that war goodbye. Iraq is right next door with a majority Shiite population & it won't take long to run the last of the US troops & bases out of the country & end the western buy up of their resources. Lastly; the way I read it, the Pentagon well understands this & will refuse to carry out the orders at the top. I won't even bother with the moral arguments as the US has none.

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Blart blart Zionists blart USS Liberty blart blart Israel lobby blart blart blart.

As if we couldn't possibly be stupid enough to do this sort of thing on our own, for our own shitty reasons.