Lindsey Graham Blames Iran For 9/11 Attacks

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by Eli Clifton

Over the past week, Republican opposition to the Iran deal has devolved considerably. Senate Republicans spent the week in chaos, raising uncertainty about whether their measure of disapproval would even reach a key procedural vote (Senators agreed to a cloture vote at 3:45pm today), holding a rally with notorious Islamophobe and birther Frank Gaffney and, in a bizarre lack of self-awareness, trotting out former Vice President Dick Cheney for a speech opposing the deal at the American Enterprise Institute, the same institution where neoconservatives met for their “black coffee briefings” to plan how to win the “war of Ideas” after 9/11 and the de-Baathification of Iraq.

Much media attention from that event focused on Patrick Clawson, research director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, attempting to violently grab a demonstrator’s banner. The banner read “Cheney Wrong On Iraq Wrong on Iran,” a reference to Cheney’s certainty about the existence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and the former VP’s reemergence as a prominent opponent of diplomacy with Iran.

That apparent obliviousness to the past, particularly by those who advocated for the invasion of Iraq over a decade ago, was in the spotlight again today. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took to the floor of the Senate to decry the nuclear deal with Iran as a betrayal of Israel, “damning the Middle East to holy hell” and explaining why the Ayatollah isn’t celebrating by “dancing in the street”: “He just doesn’t believe in dancing.”

Graham is a high-profile hawk and, along with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), one of the Republican party’s most outspoken and influential foreign policy voices. So what he said next is truly surprising: Graham appeared to blame the 9/11 attacks on Iran

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Just go home and retire, Senator. Do the world a favor.

[HassleCat]

1. We'll find those WMD any day now. The Iranians have them. (eom)

[gratuitous]

2. Oh 9/11! Is there anything you CAN'T justify?

I wonder why the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq if it was really Iran all along? Why didn't Sen. Graham pipe up back in 2002, and tell Little Boots and the Snarl that they had picked the wrong targets for our revenge?

[underpants]

10. Rummie forgot his glasses that day

Or Feith forgot to carry the 1 when calculating. Whatev's.

[SummerSnow]

3. Wait, your'e not blaming Obama? Are you drunk?

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Hoo boy, Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey. . .

[ion_theory]

5. Did you know Iran was actually responsible for Katrina as well? The more you know*** n/t

[spanone]

6. the neocon wet dream !!!

keep up the fucking lying lindsey, but c'mon, you can do better than that!

[Warpy]

7. He's either going senile or just too dumb to live

and my money's on senile, although it can be a fine line. He used to almost make sense once in a blue moon. That hasn't happened for a few years now.

[KamaAina]

8. Well, 15 of the hijackers were Iranian citizens

Or Saudi. Whatever.

[underpants]

12. Same diff

It was all about Egypt. Feith and Wolfie had a kickass presentation it. All we gotta do is get our ground forces and trillions of dollars of hardware into the Middle East and someday it will be OURS!


Turns out the unwashed masses took Egypt with their cell phones. DAMMIT!!

[hifiguy]

9. Hey, Lindsey

[underpants]

11. Are you sure it wasn't Flock of Seagulls?

[Shandris]

13. Wait, it took him 10 years to realize he hit Q instead of N?

Idiot.