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This is nothing new. "The shores of Tripoli" - Marine Corp anthem; the Barbary Coast pirates was about not paying ransom to a bunch of ME latter day terrorist. Lots of things about the founding of our country from the Constitution to standing up to ransom demands are out of date now. Old fashioned. The Founders couldn't have anticipated..... My donkey's posterior.
We must progress, now.
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Originally Posted by Kibby
TeamObama doesn't dispute that they paid a downpayment of $400 Million dollars to Iran - they claim it was just an Amazing Co-Inky-Dence that it just happened to be at the same time Iran captured (and publicly humiliated) American Sailors ... AND ... were negotiating with our good buddy Iran to provide the Grand Obama Legacy.
The USA has a long standing code to NOT pay a ransom because it paints a Target on the back of every American -- of course that was before TeamObama Transformed America.
In cash, converted to various foreign currencies, stacked on pallets, loaded onto an unmarked planed. Why all the subterfuge, when like an earlier poster pointed out, a couple clicks on a mouse would have taken care of the transfer.
Yeah, we can trust our government.
The transaction was designed to be secretive. Other government agencies would have been able to see such a large transfer. This stinks on so many levels. This one won't go away my friends. Being lectured about how wonderful the diplomatic skill demonstrated is nauseating. Someone will get fired again on this one.
Why would Iran say Obama paid a ransom? Cash deal not paid in US dollars??? Red Flag!
Those frozen assets must still be frozen and still illegal to send US dollars to Iran. The case has not yet been litigated.
There is a pattern, and it started when crooked Hillary was SOS, with secret government paying cash and giving arms to people dedicated to killing Americans. Time to change direction and get rid of these sssssssssssss<
That would have been done electronically, not in secret in the middle of the night on a plane in Swiss Francs. If it was all legal it would have been done electronically like ALL other transactions are done. It was done this way so it isn't traceable.
Electronic transfers are complicated and need to go through 3rd country intermediaries, one of the reasons the hostage negotiation under Carter failed.
The WSJ indicates it coincided with the hostage release in January. They are going to get their money at some point, if they gave it to them in Feb or March is it still a ransom?
The 400 million went to Iran with the help of the Dutch government. I'm not surprised as Mark Rutte the Minister President of Holland is always speaking highly of Obama and doesn't like Trump.
We have been following Dutch media and Dutch journalist Facebook pages and it is all biased reporting and therefore it is not strange that we back in the days always favored a Democrat while living in Holland as conservatives in the Netherlands are way more too the left than over here.
We favored Al Gore when we came here but soon after getting for the first time a chance to hear both sides and not biased European CNN, we learned a totally different side and switched to the conservative side as the man made global warming bs never was something we were buying.
Al Gore basically filled his pocket with that scam.
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The BIG scandal... just beginning.
