Lucas: Obama and the Democrats paved the way for Iran’s nuclear program

The Babylon Bee s satirical headline over the bombing of Iran s nuclear sites summed it up best It read Obama distraught as Trump bombs cool nuke factories he paid for There is truth in satire which is why it works Former President Barack Obama s appeasing financial largesse toward Iran paved the way for Iran to build its nuclear and missile delivery project that President Trump just blew off the map It seemed that Obama and then Joe Biden could not pour enough money into the militant Islamic theocracy to get it to sign on to the JCPOA Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action treaty curbing its nuclear operation It was a treaty supported by Obama Biden and the Democrats that Iran ignored as it built its limit to launch a nuclear attack on Israel and the United States while it financed armed and trained Hamas Hezbollah and the Houthis to spread terror throughout the region The constant Iranian threats of Death to Israel and Death to America did not stop either Obama or Biden from showering Iran with billions of dollars to woo the wily and implacable Iranians to the negotiating table The Iranians under religious dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are like Hitler and the Nazis of World War II They will sign anything knowing that they will ignore what they signed anyway That is what Iran did with the so-called sanctions that were put into place under the treaty They ignored them and got rich selling oil to China while working on their nuclear bombs It is no wonder that Trump tore the JCPOA treaty up in his first administration and bombed Iran in his second Trump had Iran on the ropes economically during his first administration when he forced compliance with the sanctions They were broke Trump explained and could never have advanced their nuclear campaign Then Biden was elected and the sanctions were once again relaxed or ignored and Iran proceeded to take in billions which went into its nuclear plan The Democrats made Iran rich largely by lifting or ignoring the sanctions but also by other means like paying for hostages Back in Obama unfroze billion in Iranian funds that the Iranians fast used to work on their nuclear bomb and missile plans as well to finance its terrorist proxies In rather than demand their release the ever-amenable Obama paid the Iranians billion in cash delivered to Tehran for the release of four Americans held hostages In alone while Iranian terrorist proxies launched attacks on forty U S military installations in the region Iran took in billion in illicit oil sales to China under Biden s relaxed or ignored sanctions In addition Biden like Obama paid Iran billion in frozen Iranian funds in a prisoner swap for the release of five Americans held hostage for five criminal Iranians in U S prisons The Ayatollah had a good thing going with the Democrats He played Obama and Biden like a fiddle Then came Trump and a real military shock and awe bombing campaign that took the Iranian mullahs and the world by surprise The Ayatollah threw in the towel and wished a cease fire It was also a development of shock and awe for the Democrats Warren Markey Pressley McGovern Trahan and their progressive allies in the media CNN and The New York Times who could not wait to downplay the amazing accomplishment by the U S military and Donald Trump Their hatred of Trump is so great that they seemed to be hoping for a mission failure rather than an American conquest The next Babylon Bee headline should read Democrats distraught as America wins Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at peter lucas botonherald com