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Old 02-09-2018, 12:04 PM
 
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Obama-era cash traced to Iran-backed terrorists

The U.S. government has traced some of the $1.7 billion released to Iran by the Obama administration to Iranian-backed terrorists in the two years since the cash was transferred.

According to knowledgeable sources, Iran has used the funds to pay its main proxy, the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, along with the Quds Force, Iran’s main foreign intelligence and covert action arm and element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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“The enormous financial windfall the Iranian regime received because of the deal — access to more than $100 billion, including $1.8 billion in cash — has not been used to better the lives of the Iranian people,” Mr. Trump said Jan. 12. “Instead, it has served as a slush fund for weapons, terror, and oppression, and to further line the pockets of corrupt regime leaders.”


In other news, the sky is blue today.

Surely Obama knew how Iran would spend the money.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:06 PM
 
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Surprise, surprise. Didn't even need Nostradamus to predict this since it was so easily seen.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:08 PM
 
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So A country that has backed rebels against another country used some of their own money that was released to them to do this.

Meanwhile Republicans try and make it sound like Obama pulled billions out of our own economy, and gave it to people who are terrorists.

You can word this in multiple ways. The one closest to the truth?

Iran used their own money to do stuff that may be funding terrorists. The release of their money was in order to avoid them having nuclear weapons...like in North Korea.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:10 PM
 
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So, "according to sources" is valid on some occasions?
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:12 PM
 
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So, "according to sources" is valid on some occasions?
yup, what's good for the goose is also good for the gander. Deal with it.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:13 PM
 
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yup, what's good for the goose is also good for the gander. Deal with it.


Oh, I no doubt believe that the money was used for terrorist activities. It is Iran, of course.



Just pointing out the MASSIVE hypocrisy. The right CONSTANTLY post citing "sources", and then attack the left.....for doing the SAME thing.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:14 PM
 
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yup, what's good for the goose is also good for the gander. Deal with it.


so you agree you won't use that argument the next time unnamed sources appear in an article about Cheeto Jesus?
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:17 PM
 
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so you agree you won't use that argument the next time unnamed sources appear in an article about Cheeto Jesus?
Oh no, trump supporters most certainly will. It's in their nature to be incredibly hypocritical on almost everything.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:43 PM
 
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Oh, I no doubt believe that the money was used for terrorist activities. It is Iran, of course.



Just pointing out the MASSIVE hypocrisy. The right CONSTANTLY post citing "sources", and then attack the left.....for doing the SAME thing.
I really wasn't concerned with the sources - because it is as you said... we already knew how they would use the money.

I know you are trying to make a side point to counter other issues... it doesn't apply here. I am just validating what we already know.
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Old 02-09-2018, 12:45 PM
 
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Surely Obama knew how Iran would spend the money.
It was their money. Iran doesn't get a say in how the U.S. spends its money, do they?
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