“This President’s foreign policy is the most feckless in American history”. “By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”, he added, a reference to crematories in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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Unlike some Republican presidential candidates, Clinton has a personal relationship with Huckabee, who served as governor of Arkansas immediately after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, held the same office. Bush, a fellow GOP presidential rival, said Huckabee’s language was “just wrong”.
“We still went into an appeasement mode with the efforts of Chamberlain, it was disastrous”, he said.
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Huckabee’s statement was “grossly irresponsible” and called on him to apologise.
Mike Huckabee is standing by his comparison of President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal to the Holocaust – but acknowledged Tuesday that “maybe the metaphor is not a good one”.
Israel has called the agreement a threat to its survival and has urged U.S. lawmakers to reject the deal, saying it would give Iran a “sure path” to nuclear weapons.
Rivera, who said he thinks Huckabee would be a great president, was “begging” the GOP presidential candidate to apologize and recant.
The heated rhetoric comes just 10 days before the first Republican primate debate and the outspoken Trump now leads the pack. “We have manufactured missiles that allow us… to replace Israel… with a big holocaust” Huckabee tweeted, quoting “Ayatollah Khamenei Iranian Martyr Foundation rep”.
Secretary of State John Kerry and the two other cabinet members face a skeptical Congress, with Democrats and Republicans alike concerned about making a deal with the radical Islamic regime in Tehran. Obama criticized Trump for mocking McCain’s capture in Vietnam, where the former prisoner of war endured years of imprisonment and even torture. But critics like Huckabee argue that the deal actually empowers Iran’s nuclear ambitions instead of dismantling their infrastructure.
Indeed, it was no easy task for Washington to get Western countries to agree to sanctions that would prevent Iran from selling oil to Europe, and convincing them to do so again would be an uphill battle if they could be convinced at all, analysts said. “And I recognize that when outrageous statements are made about me a lot of the same people who were outraged when it’s made about Mr. McCain were pretty quiet”.
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“These are leaders in the Republican Party”, Obama said incredulously. “I find this kind of inflammatory rhetoric totally unacceptable”, she said while campaigning in Iowa.
