In a recent radio interview, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that he thinks former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) was wrong to criticize President Barack Obama’s motives for securing the nuclear deal with Iran, according to Buzzfeed.
“I don’t question President Obama’s motives. That’s where Mike has gone down the wrong road,” Graham said in the interview. “I like Mike Huckabee, but this is about the most sensitive subject matter I can imagine.”
Huckabee said that Obama’s deal with Iran will “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” he said in an interview with Breitbart News.
“I am not accusing President Obama of marching the Jewish people to the ovens,” Graham said in the interview. “I’m accusing him of misjudging our adversary, the Iranian Ayatollah, and constructing a deal that will empower them, that will create a certain nuclear arms race. Not his motives, but the outcome.”
Graham said that he thinks the U.S. can “get a better deal,” and “must get a better deal,” in the interview.
“But I don’t want to do anything to hurt our cause of stopping this deal and this kind of rhetoric doesn’t help,” he said.
Listen to the exchange:
First question, Ms. Graham: Have you read the full content of the agreement? Not just the cover page, but all 154 pages. Have you read every single word in the agreement?
Follow-up question, Ms. Graham: If this agreement is not satisfactory, then please present a detailed description (beyond the generic ‘get a better deal’) of what that ‘better deal’ would include. Given that sanctions over the last two decades have not prevented the Iranians from getting the tools to go nuclear, what would you propose instead? Details, man, details.
Last question, Ms. Graham: How would you pay for the US’s part in implementing your detailed version of the agreement?
Crickets, you say?
That’s what I thought…
‘Wait, hold on a minute, the better Iran deal is right here under the Obamacare replacement program details, I swear…’
Aw, Ms. Lindsey: a good Southerner nevah swears…
Give it up, Lindsey. It’s just sad at this point.
Nobody to my knowledge has come up with a better way to prevent the Iranians from getting nukes. Yet they are against what the 6 nations + Iran have come up with. For me,… to be against any deal with Iran (see Sen. Cotton’s viewpoint) results in them getting a weapon. There is no alternative to this deal.