Did it ever occur to President Obama to ask why he couldn’t just cut a check to the Iranian regime?
Outrage broke out this week over the revelation that Obama arranged to ship the mullahs piles of cash, worth $400 million and converted into foreign denominations, reportedly in an unmarked cargo plane. The hotly debated question was whether the payment, which the administration attributes to a 37-year-old arms deal, was actually a ransom paid for the release of American hostages Tehran had abducted.
It is a waste of time to debate that point further. The Iranians have bragged that the astonishing cash payment was a ransom — and Obama has been telling us for months that we can trust the Iranians. The hostages were released the same day the cash arrived. One of the hostages has reported that the captives were detained an extra several hours at the airport and told they would not be allowed to leave until the arrival of another plane — inferentially, the unmarked cargo plane ferrying the cash. The reason American policy has always prohibited paying ransoms to terrorists and other abductors is that it only encourages them to take more hostages. And, as night follows day, Iran has abducted more Americans since Obama paid the cash. No matter how energetically the president tries to lawyer the ransom issue, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . .
More worth examining is why the transaction took the bizarre form that it did. To cut to the chase, I believe it was to camouflage — unsuccessfully — the commission of felony law violations.
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4 comments:
But everyone has to understand, Obama doesn't care if he breaks the law, he has done it over and over again. He thinks he is above the law and do as he pleases. One of my prayers is that one day he will get what is coming to him.
Who cares, they can do as they please and none of you will stop it, stand up and help others fight it so why do you dumb ass people act and talk like you are not only appalled but as if this bothers you some how... If this stuff truly was bothering all of you, and if this was indeed illegal as you all say, then why do you do nothing??? Why do you just jaw jack on the internet as if they will help anything???
Your not 100% sick of anything until you do something about it... As Gandhi said, be the change you wish to see... But we all know you people are either to stupid, fat and lazy or you really don't give a crap, but just talk a good game as if you do...
So, what, if anything is congress going to do about it? If there are never any consequences he will continue doing illegal stuff until the end of his term. Who knows what he is planning on doing next. Every decision he has made has been to the detriment of the US.
If nobody knows what took place during and after this ransom payment then nobody knows how much of that $400M Obama and Kerry took for themselves. It can't even be said that they took nothing. Hillary had 4 years to milk the system. Obama is having 8.
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