It is too bad that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not around.
If he were, he would be hosting a fundraiser for the Democrat Party, particularly for those members of Congress—including all of them from Massachusetts– who voted to shut down the war with Iran that the U.S. is winning.
They failed, of course, but their vote no doubt lifted the spirits of Khamenei’s remaining militant Islamic fanatics who are still holed up in their underground bunkers and missile sites waiting to die.
After bombing and alienating the previously friendly countries around it, the Democrat Party is the only ally Iran has left, even though Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world and responsible for the dealth of thousands of Americans.
Of course, the vote seeking to hamstring the president did nothing for the morale of the U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen fighting the war, including the families of the six Americans already killed.
How would you feel if you had a son or a daughter in the military fighting a war to rid the world of the Iranian nuclear menace and you heard Democrats dump on the mission and their efforts?
It is worse than that.
In fact, the Democrats rooted for failure. Even before the vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said U.S. involvement in the “endless war”—which was only a week long– “is going to end in failure.”
What actually ended in failure was the Democrat effort to curtail Trump’s power as commander in chief to conduct military operations without asking Congress to declare war, just as presidents have done in the past.
The Democrats’ anti-Trump, anti-war resolution was killed in the House on a partisan vote of 219-to 212. A similar resolution died in the Senate earlier on a 53-47 vote
If this were President Barack Obama bombing Libya, or killing terrorists (including Americans) by drones, they would be cheering.
But this is Trump and Democrats hate him more than they do the religious zealots in Iran who just recently slaughtered 32,000 of protesting Iranians in the streets of Tehran and elsewhere.
These are the same Islamic religious radials who were on the verge of creating nuclear weapons that they promised to use in their war against Israel, the U.S. and western civilization.
It is strange that no Democrats protested on behalf of the Iranian people. It is even stranger still that they condemned Trump for coming to their aide by helping kill Khamenei and his followers in an Israeli air strike.
But Massachusetts Democrats can rest assured that the state’s delegation to Congress voted the party line, and that is to obstruct Trump no matter the issue.
Both Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren voted to halt the U.S attacks on Iran, as did the nine Massachusetts members of the House.
They are U.S. Reps. Jake Auchincloss of Newton, Kathrine Clark of Revere, William Keating of Bourne, Stephen Lynch of South Boston, James McGovern of Worcester, Seth Moulton of Salem, Richard Neal of Springfield, Ayanna Pressley of Boston, and Lori Trahan of Westford/Lowell.
No sooner did they cast their vote against Trump and the war than Markey and the rest were on social media trying to raise money from it, giving Trahan, at least, the nickname of Lori Tehran among some in her district.
Trahan, or Tehran, also joined the radical members of the Squad, including Pressley, and voted against reaffirming Iran as “the largest state sponsor of terrorism” in the world.
If Khamenei were not dead, he would be among her contributors, as well as to the other Democrat money grubbers.
The strangest thing of all is that these Democrats attacking Trump over the war would be among the first to attack him for not doing something before Iran dropped a nuke on Israel. And then they would raise money from it.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
