[Schmerika]

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[JumpCrisscross]

> Working towards war with Iran has been bipartisan US policy for decades now

Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal in July 2015 [1].

Biden didn't put any policy focus on Iran, in part becase, with the benefit of hindsight, it's difficult to distill any policy focus from that Presidency following Covid. But he also didn't ratchet up pressure in any material way [2]. (And to be clear, I'm not saying that's good.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_rel...

[_heimdall]

Obama is the one outlier here. As far as I'm aware, all other presidents since '79 saw this as inevitable if not desirable.

[IAmGraydon]

Not sure how you can say that considering that he did it without Congressional approval? It’s literally all him.

[_heimdall]

Congress hasn't publicly supported the attack. That is an extremely important step, and required for any operation lasting more than 30 days if I'm not mistaken, but it doesn't mean a majority of Congress hasn't already made clear they do support this.

[greekrich92]

You gotta be kidding

[HeavyStorm]

He's right though. He's calling out that this is policy, not just Trump.

Still however pulls the trigger commits the crime.