If the Pentagon had used bunker buster bombs and cruise missiles to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapon facilities last year, a necessary act as the fanatical mullah regime in Tehran will never voluntarily give up on nukes, the congressional Republicans would be calling President Joe Biden’s action unconstitutional and saying that he was starting a war, while Democrats would be praising the president for ending a threat to the whole world.

What’s changed is that a Republican president ordered the strikes, so the Democrats are crying foul, while GOP leaders on the Hill are lining up behind President Donald Trump.

Democrats and Republicans agree that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. If the ayatollah would not abandon his nukes program through diplomacy, and after years and years of talks and deceptions and delays, he wouldn’t, then it would have to be ended by other means, including being bombed to bits. It shouldn’t matter which political party the president is.

Such partisanship is not about the consensus foreign policy, stopping Iran from having the bomb, but about who is in the White House. And that’s a bad prescription, especially since for decades, every president, of both parties, has been trying to deal with the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, home to chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” seeking to acquire atomic weapons.

It was former President Barack Obama who showed the world that Iran was building a secret underground uranium enrichment factory at Fordo in 2009. It was also Obama who authorized the creation of a bomb big enough to destroy Fordo, buried inside of a mountain, the GBU-57A/B MOP. That stands for Guided Bomb Unit and Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000 pound, 20-foot long giant.

A squad of seven B-2 bombers flew the 37 hours roundtrip from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to Iran to drop their payloads of two bombs each. That equals 14 of these things, which is 420,000 pounds of bomb, landing on Fordo and Natanz, another nuke site.

Meanwhile, a U.S. sub offshore of Iran launched 30 Tomahawk missiles at Isfahan, the third nuke target hit in Operation Midnight Hammer in the dead of night in Iran over the weekend.

A week ago, as Israel was attacking Iran’s nukes and ballistic missile infrastructure (along with its military leaderships and atomic scientists and air defenses) the G-7, which consists of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan, issued a joint statement that said “Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” and “We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.” Let’s highlight that: “Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump gave Iran chance after chance, even as Israel struck. But Iran would not cease its pursuit of nukes.

Iran has threatened retaliation, but they are very weak, their proxies of Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, either destroyed or degraded to impotency. Iran’s puppet state of Syria is no more and the militias in Iraq are far less a danger. Half their missile launchers are gone and Israel controls the skies over the country.

Give up the nukes for good and all the fighting ends, which is something everyone in Washington can agree on.

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