This is a new one, and quite insane in terms of pro-war propaganda coming from elected officials...
South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson (R) has bizarrely claimed that Iranians have been putting babies in microwaves. This was his response when pressed this week to offer a justification for the Iran war by independent journalist and longtime Middle East regional pundit Rania Khalek.
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, file imageKhalek walked with him through Congressional halls and peppered him with questions highlighting the unpopularity of the Iran war among the American public.
Ironically, Rep. Wilson barely won his reelection campaign by an incresibly slim 0.95 points - and he was up against a 25-year-old Democratic challenger and first-time candidate.
"I oppose terrorists who murder babies by putting them in microwaves," Wilson asserted, and also presented as 'evidence' his own eyewitness experience, supposedly on the ground while on a visit to Iran.
Here's the transcript of the exchange via "Useful Idiots" podcast:
Rania Khalek: Do you support continuing funding the war on Iran when 74% of voters said that it was a crucial part of their decision to–
Rep. Joe Wilson: I oppose terrorists who m
