Fact Check: Republicans Are Lying About Obama’s “Secret” $400 Million Payment To Iran

[Scratch33]

Originally Posted by plannine

With ransom, you pay up first. Not the other way around.

Better not quit your day job, since you would not make it as a kidnapper.

When Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 back in 1985 and murdered U.S. serviceman Robert Stethem, after several days of negotiation the terrorists finally released their 39 remaining hostages. One day later Israel announced they would release jailed shiite terrorists, and over the next few weeks freed more than 700 of them. However, Israel denied the releases were related to the hijacking.

Was that 'ransom'? Was Israel's claim believable?

I suppose my point is that despite any rhetoric there's a long, documented history of the U.S. and other western countries negotiating with terrorists; including ransoming and bargaining.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by johnsonkk

You could be cynical, at least. You have no idea why the U.S. Decided to pay out of the blue on a debt that is nearly 40 years old? Come on.

Why didn't the administration decide to refectify this 40 year old debt over 7 years into his administration. What happened? The guilt was too much?

And then comes the payment. Magical a plane, unmarked plane with pallets of cash was delivered under the cover of darkness. Seems rather odd that the hostage being held in Iran was waiting in a plane on the same airfield ( his words). Their flight was delayed time and time again ( the hostages' plane). Once the magical plane landed in Iran with the cash, the plane with the hostages was given permission to depart. Does anyone think the hostages were sitting for weeks on a runway waiting for a cash flight to arrive?

All these cash- to- play gigs get fully disclosed eventually. Even the Iran- contra scandal was unearthed by a single downed plane. We now know about the plane that flew out Osama bin laden from Sudan in 1998.

Keep Believing that this payment for hostages was just a random coincidence. And keep blindfolded when you pull the voting lever.

The partisan democrat hacks think we always fly huge pallets of Swiss money around, in unmarked planes, to pay our debts to foreign nations.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to think it's normal for the US government to fly around pallets of Swiss francs, instead of doing a wire transfer.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by Scratch33

When Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 back in 1985 and murdered U.S. serviceman Robert Stethem, after several days of negotiation the terrorists finally released their 39 remaining hostages. One day later Israel announced they would release jailed shiite terrorists, and over the next few weeks freed more than 700 of them. However, Israel denied the releases were related to the hijacking.

Was that 'ransom'? Was Israel's claim believable?

I suppose my point is that despite any rhetoric there's a long, documented history of the U.S. and other western countries negotiating with terrorists; including ransoming and bargaining.

Like I said, a person would need to a special kind of ......