US senator makes bizarre Iwo Jima reference

Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham has compared Iranian oil facility Kharg Island to Japanese island Iwo Jima to demand an all-out US invasion to control it. The World War II battle of Iwo Jima cost the US 26,000 casualties, including almost 7,000 dead. Graham said:

We did Iwo Jima. We can do this.

The Iwo Jima comparison may hold – but not the way Graham intended. In fact, it may well be an understatement. Former US Army Ranger Joe Kent, who recently resigned as head of Trump’s National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) over the illegal Iran war, says that invading Kharg Island:

would be a disaster. It would essentially be giving Iran a bunch of hostages on an island that they could barrage with drones and missiles.

At Iwo Jima, the US knew that taking the island would come at a heavy cost, but that once won there would be little Japan could do from 1,200km away. Kharg Island lies 25km from mainland Iran and Iran’s drones and missiles could easily reach it from anywhere in Iranian territory.

Clearly the US senator and the Israel lobby that runs him care nothing for the lives of US servicemen. But the sight of thousands of flag-draped coffins arriving back in the US would destroy Trump and the lobby along with support for their illegal war that is already plummeting.

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