Former President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail with one request for American voters: forget.

Rallying in Cleveland this weekend, the former President told the crowd his 2015 nuclear deal kept Iran from getting the bomb without firing a single missile. Just diplomacy, he said, until Donald Trump walked away and started a war.

It’s a great story, if you have the memory of a goldfish.

In January 2016, days before the Obama deal took effect, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized two U.S. Navy boats and 10 American sailors in the Persian Gulf. Tehran put them on camera, on their knees, so the world could watch. Following their swift releases, the Obama administration expressed gratitude, and the deal went forward on schedule.

Then there’s the part Obama leaves out entirely. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas, a terrorist group Iran has armed, trained and bankrolled for years, murdered roughly 1,200 people in Israel. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

If Obama’s diplomacy truly tamed Iran, someone forgot to tell its proxies.

An effective policy doesn’t leave behind captured sailors and slaughtered civilians. Obama isn’t asking voters to judge his record. He’s asking them to misplace it.

Nowhere is that request bolder than on the bill........

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