Move over Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee wants America to know he can say things that are just as ignorant.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says because of an “idiotic” nuclear deal with Tehran, President Obama is essentially marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.” His rhetoric now brings the expected Holocaust references to the chorus of Iran critics among US politicians.
“It is so naive that [Obama] would trust the Iranians,” the Republican presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee told Breitbart News on Saturday.
“By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven. This is the most idiotic thing, this Iran deal. It should be rejected by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by the American people.”
The “oven doors” statement was an unmistakable reference to the gas chambers and ovens of Nazi deaths camps, in which, during the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of Jews had been gassed and their bodies burned.
The remark sparked a torrent of criticism both online and among the US politicians. The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said that such rhetoric “has no place in American politics,” and urged Huckabee to “apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement.”
The agreement between Iran and six world powers was reached in Vienna earlier this month. The long negotiated deal triggered furious responses among senior Israeli diplomats, as well criticism from US Republican congressmen.
The US Congress is under a deadline to vote on the deal by September 17th.
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