Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee compared President Obama’s signing of the Iran nuclear deal to the Nazis transporting Jews to the gas chambers during WWII.
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However, there is a provision in the Iran nuclear deal, which obligates the U.S. and its allies to stop efforts to sabotage and undermine it. So what happens when Israel seeks a military solution against Iran?
“This rhetoric, while commonplace in today’s Republican presidential primary, has no place in American politics”, said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, R-Fla., who chairs the Democratic National Committee.
“I read the whole deal”, he said. “It’s got to be stopped”. He continued: “This is the most idiotic thing, this Iran deal… Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world”.
Among Republicans and hawkish Democrats, reaction has been hostile. When Marco Rubio put the question to John Kerry the other day the Secretary of State froze in his tracks, but ultimately did not disavow the possibility.
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Trump’s popularity and outspokenness have kept former front-runners like Huckabee perched on the back burner of the crowded 2016 Republican presidential nominee field over the last several weeks in poll after poll. He didn’t say President Obama was like Hitler, or resembled Hitler, or was Hitleresque. He went on to work as a host for Fox News. Only the top 10 GOP candidates will participate in the first debate, in Cleveland on 6 August.
