Editor's Comment: Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina was invited to address the annual gala banquet of Israel's lobby, AIPAC, in Washington on March 22 this year. He told them what they wanted to hear. Here are some excerpts from his speech, chronicled in David Corn's article, published in Mother Jones:

"The Congress has your back ... all options must be on the table ... you know exactly what I'm talking about .... sometimes it is better to go to war than to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time ... time is not on our side."

Graham told the Israel firsters that their AIPAC conference could be the last of their annual banquets before Iran gains nuclear weapons and that military action should be taken before they get the bomb. He also said that there should be a full scale war against Iran and it should not be limited to strikes against Iran's nuclear program:

If military force is ever employed, it should be done in a decisive fashion. The Iran government's ability to wage conventional war against its neighbors and our troops in the region should not exist. They should not have one plane that can fly or one ship that can float.

With the Republican Party's landslide victory on November 2 comes another shift from the good warmongers (Democrats) to the bad warmongers (Republicans), all backed by the moneyed elite demanding that more U.S. soldiers die in another war that Israelis are too cowardly to fight themselves.

- Les Blough, Editor

US senator Lindsey Graham

After the Republicans gained control of the House, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham has urged Washington to "destroy" the Islamic Republic through military action.

“Not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard, in other words neuter that regime," Graham said on Saturday

Amid a standoff over Iran's nuclear program, both Tel Aviv and Washington have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike, based on the allegation that Iran's nuclear work may consist of a covert military agenda.

The latest threat of a military action was invoked by US Admiral Mike Mullen, who claimed he was ready to start a war if he was convinced it would keep Iran from making a "bomb."

Graham repeated Mullen's threats and said, "The last thing America wants is another military conflict, but the last thing the world needs is a nuclear-armed Iran... Containment is off the table."

This is while President Barack Obama said in September that a military attack by Israel or the US against Iran would not be an "ideal way" to solve the issue of Tehran's nuclear program.

Obama, however, added that the US would keep all options on the table.

In August, Iran complained to the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the General Assembly about US threats of a military attack against the country over its nuclear program and based on "totally false" grounds, vowing a response to any such strikes.

Iran says its nuclear program is completely peaceful and within the framework of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, to which it is a signatory.

Iranian officials have warned that any act of aggression by the US and Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities would be firmly responded to and could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

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Source: Press TV