By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
Americans who watched Fox News Sunday got a close look at the deranged war fantasies of Israel-first GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Graham wants to send Marines to attack Kharg Island, the site of Iran’s main oil terminal, responsible for 90 percent of petroleum product exports. The Marines can do so, he said, because they tackled Iwo Jima in February 1945. “My money is always on the Marines,” he told hostess Shannon Bream. He didn’t bother to mention that almost 7,000 Marines died on Iwo Jima.
But Graham isn’t the only U.S. senator who pushed President Donald Trump to attack Iran. GOP Senator Ted Cruz of Texas admitted that he was alone with Trump the day before the attack and told him it must go forward.
During a now-famous interview with Tucker Carlson, Cruz showed that he knows nothing about Iran…
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