Lindsey Graham Brings Up Hitler While Criticizing The Iran Deal (VIDEO)

United States Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina), a candidate for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States, questions the witnesses during the US Senate Committee on Armed Ser... United States Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina), a candidate for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States, questions the witnesses during the US Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing concerning "Impacts of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on U.S. Interests and the Military Balance in the Middle East" Iran Nuclear Agreement Review on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., America - 29 Jul 2015 (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday invoked Hitler’s slow takeover of Europe through appeasement to explain why the historic Iran nuclear deal shouldn’t be approved by Congress.

Earlier in the week, Graham criticized his presidential rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), for using a Holocaust analogy to criticize the same deal.

“I don’t question President Obama’s motives. That’s where Mike has gone down the wrong road,” Graham said at the time. “I like Mike Huckabee, but this is about the most sensitive subject matter I can imagine.”

But during his Thursday interview on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Graham went with a Hitler reference anyway.

“The Munich deal would have made sense if Hitler just wanted German-speaking people under the German umbrella. Munich partitioning Czechoslovakia, and giving him more power and reenforcing his belief that the West was weak, was a terrible deal. He in fact, wanted to kill the Jews and have a master race,” Graham told the Newsmax host. “This is a bad deal because the Ayatollah gets more money and more weapons and a clearer path to the bomb. Here’s what the deal does: It gives him a bomb, a missile to deliver and the money to pay for it. What would he do with a missile and the bomb? Does he feel compelled by his religion to attack Israel and destroy democracies like ours? I say yes.”

Watch the exchange below:

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  1. Lindsey: Using a Hitler comparison is shameful, so…I’ll wait a couple of days to lurch farther to the right by using a Hitler comparison.

  2. I’d love to see a picture of the Newsmax TV studio(s)…I bet Lindsey sat on his hanky.

  3. Avatar for pdxer pdxer says:

    Well, his Brad Pitt meme didn’t catch on, so he’s trying another one.

  4. As usual, it’s way more complicated than what the Lindsey thinks, and most of the public for that matter, and is generally at odds with serious students of WWII history:

    Historians often find themselves moving against popular opinion. In the case of Chamberlain, though, the gap between public perception and the historical record serves a political purpose. The story we’re told about Munich is one about the futility and foolishness of searching for peace. In American political debates, the words “appeasement” and “Munich” are used to bludgeon those who argue against war. But every war is not World War II, and every dictator is not Hitler. Should we really fault Chamberlain for postponing a potentially disastrous fight that his military advisers cautioned against, his allies weren’t ready for, and his people didn’t support? “People should try to put themselves into the position of the head of the British government in the 1930s,” Dutton says. “Would they have taken the apparently huge risk of a war [that] might mean Armageddon for a cause that nobody was really convinced in?” Chamberlain’s story is of a man who fought for peace as long as possible, and went to war only when it was the last available option. It’s not such a bad epitaph.

    My emigré old dad, who served in the RAF during WWII told me much the same thing as this article when he heard “Munich” being used as a club by hawky politicians who wanted to kill other people’s children and spend other people’s money on wars.

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