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2023-10-15 Government Corruption

[American Thinker] Lindsey Graham, the bellicose South Carolina senator full of empty conservative promises and love of mass amnesty for illegal aliens, responded to the Hamas terror attacks in Israel by promptly calling for the U.S. military to attack Iran and destroy its oil refineries.

Of all the ways we could cripple Iran’s (or Joe Biden’s) financing of Hamas (forbidding Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Joe Biden from handing the world’s leading State-sponsor of terrorism billions of dollars each year would be an excellent start), Graham goes straight to the option that will see already exorbitantly high oil prices skyrocket even further. It sure is perplexing (not!) how every policy proposal coming from D.C. (regardless of nominal party affiliation) conveniently advances Klaus Schwab’s "Great Reset" agenda to make private car ownership unaffordable and windmill-powered scooter rentals slightly more appealing. Graham wants $500/barrel oil and a new "religious war" in the powder keg that is the Middle East — quite the splashy platform for winning over the hippy, Birkenstock-wearing, Earth-worshiping slice of the electorate dedicated to waging war against "people of color."

While Sean Penn and Hollywood’s other mental midgets push oil prices up with their steadfast support for death and slaughter in Ukraine, Graham will do the same with his sights set on Iran. And the "Green New Deal" cult will continue to profit from its unspoken creed: "Make War, not Love" in order to "Save the Planet."

Of course, Graham’s target audience is not American peaceniks-turned-Ukraine-war-hawks but rather American patriots willing to shed blood for their countrymen. He seeks to use patriots’ love of God and country to dupe them into fighting for higher oil prices while tap-dancing into yet another endless war with unclear mission objectives and vague definitions of victory. After a decade-plus of Obama, Biden, and Kerry propping up the Ayatollah’s Nazi State with pallets of cash and undeserved geopolitical clout, shouldn’t the Iran-appeasers be the first ones shoved to the front lines of any future conflict? Before American patriots again risk life and limb for D.C.’s deadly policies, shouldn’t those most responsible for elevating Iran’s evil regime to the nuclear club first pay the debt they owe to the rest of the world for their misguided, if not malevolent, assistance in making Khamenei’s theocratic dictatorship even more dangerous?

Fat chance of that happening. It is Washington’s errant policymakers who always march us into war with their malfeasance, but it is ordinary Americans who ultimately pay the price. While the permanent ruling class makes a fortune selling U.S. government influence to our enemies, those same Potomac princelings always find a way to hide far in the back of the pack when hostilities draw near. They cheerlead for war but witness its viciousness only on television screens from the safety of brown leather fainting couches and with the liquid courage that perpetual happy hour provides.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-15 07:14|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top

#1 We were warned in 1961:

Eisenhower's farewell address (sometimes referred to as "Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation") was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States, delivered in a television broadcast on January 17, 1961. Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science-based public policy by what he called a "scientific-technological elite". This speech and Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech have been called the "bookends" of his administration. WIKI

Emphasis added.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-15 07:26|| 2023-10-15 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem with crying wolf is that right after people stop listening, the wolf comes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-15 07:26|| 2023-10-15 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has been matched in its overall corrosive impact upon the old republic as much as the Technological Academic Complex (TAC). Both feast on the money pit that is the Swamp that loots the citizenry.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-15 07:37|| 2023-10-15 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Every single thing that the government gets involved in becomed a jobs program and a revenue stream. The jobs side is used to stuff ballot boxes, the revenue is used to stuff pockets.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-15 09:01|| 2023-10-15 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Then why are so many commenters strongly on Graham's side and want a new war with Iran?

Posted by Otto Gurly-Brown9938 2023-10-15 09:20|| 2023-10-15 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Sometimes you gotta stop and shake the rock out of your boot.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-15 09:40|| 2023-10-15 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 want a new war with Iran?

More like desirous of finally finishing the old war that Iran’s Mullahs have been prosecuting since 1979. my dear. But you knew that, disingenuous old thing that you are.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-15 13:32|| 2023-10-15 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 There may be plenty of reasons for a person supporting thumping Iran. Because Graham said so is not one of them.

Graham is a salesman. He makes money from wars. He makes more money if the war streches on. Quick, decisive wins are bad for business. A drawn out USA/Iran war is bad for everyone except people like Graham.

In his corner are those pushing a war to show that the WokeSA military is up to the challenge as validation, even though our Secretary of Defense thinks Air Force flies from carriers and their generals can't sit in their skirts correctly.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-10-15 14:09|| 2023-10-15 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has been matched in its overall corrosive impact upon the old republic as much as the Technological Academic Complex (TAC).

What's the one thing they have in common? A government that has grown too large and too empowered to stop. The TAC and MIC are symptoms, not causes. The cause is the destruction of Federalism, beginning with the 16th and 17th amendments, and the death of the 9th and 10th amendments in the courts.

Posted by Sheba Thease8880 2023-10-15 17:31|| 2023-10-15 17:31|| Front Page Top

#10 ...don't forget the WW2 'temporary' expedient of payroll withholding.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-15 17:52|| 2023-10-15 17:52|| Front Page Top

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