If Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) had her way, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) would not see the inside of the Situation Room and would not be advising President Donald Trump on Operation Epic Fury.
Graham has visited Trump at the White House as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel several times in recent months urging avwar against Iran. The senator reportedly coached Netanyahu on how to lobby Trump for the war.
Mace was on Wednesday’s Laura Coates Live on CNN. Coated played a clip of Graham urging Trump to seize Iran’s Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf.
“So here’s what I’d tell President Trump,” Graham said on Fox News Sunday.“Keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Kharg Island, where all of the resources they have to produce oil, control that island. Let this regime die on a vine… We got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima. We can do this.”
Coates noted Mace did not agree with Graham.
“I know you take issue with several points he’s raised, including Iwo Jima and the loss of American lives there,” Laura Coates said to Mace.
“Seven thousand Marines died on the black sands of Iwo Jima,” Mace replied.
“So explain your opposition to his statements about Kharg Island or the idea of allowing the regime to die on a vine,” Coates said.
“I want President Trump to take Lindsey Graham out of the situation room,” Mace said.
“Is he advising the president?” Coates asked.
“He brags about it,” Mace said. “And I don’t think Lindsey Graham, for all of that hubris, has thought through or wargamed the consequences of us taking Kharg Island.”
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Operation Epic Fury is entering a second month after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes against Iran on Feb. 28.
Iran has responded by firing missiles and drones at Israel, U.S. military bases in the region, and oil facilities in Gulf states.
