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‘Nuke Gaza’ rant US senators
Republican Lindsey Graham appealed directly to Israel to 'do whatever you have to do' after opining that using atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was 'OK,' writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DANGEROUSLY UNHINGED: Lindsey Graham (left) and Tim Walberg (right); atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1945 (middle)
[Walberg: DC office/CC Nagasaki Charles Levy/Public domain]
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LAST weekend on a popular network television programme, longtime South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, appeared to suggest that Israel should use nuclear weapons to end its war in Gaza.
His remarks echoed those of Illinois Congressman Republican Tim Walberg, who suggested in March that the war in Gaza ”should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
Graham asserted on the programme Meet the Press that the US decision to “end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons” was “the right decision.
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