Can You Say, “Ransom?” Sure. I Knew You Could.
And apparently, so can the current Administration. From the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed
Predictably, the current gang of naive tools in DC Administration says that there was no “quid pro quo” involved. It was merely a “coincidence” that $400M worth of cash procured by the US government from European central banks was airlifted in an unmarked cargo plane to Tehran at the same time 4 Americans held hostage by Iran were released.
The article linked above gives more details. IMO you should read it. Prepare to get angry.
I really wish the current Administration would quit insulting our intelligence by peeing on our legs and claiming it’s raining. I can’t speak for others – but I can certainly tell the difference between the two, thanks.
This wasn’t rain.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Foreign Policy, Government Incompetence
Deny, deny, DENY!
NEVER give up the con!
I heard about this on the radio this morning and when they said, ” It was merely a “coincidence” ” I was like
RIIIIGGGHHHTTT
How fucking stupid do they think we are?!?!
Really?!?!?
Was this money for Iran to buy those Boeing planes?
What do you guys think of all that going on at American Thinker about TWA 800?
I have a hard time believing a Navy ship can fire a missile, shoot down a civilian airplane, and none of the sailors in ship tell about it.
At least in the Army, there are no secrets. Somebody is going to tell. I always assumed the Navy was the same way.
I ask because of that theory that Boeing kept silent, even though they knew the official story about an internal fuel explosion was not true, because the gruberment promise Boeing more contract money, including this Iran deal.
The night this happened a news broadcaster reported that a “Navy” captain was in charge of the search for survivors. I turned to my wife and said, “if a Navy captain’s in charge then something’s wrong because that’s a Coast Guard function. We’re being fed bullshit.”
I believed it was Islamic terrorists but Cashill is a good investigator. But I’m with you, Yef, on how do you keep all those sailors silent. Something still stinks about this whole matter.
How many journalists do you think can tell – at a glance – the difference between a Navy and a USCG uniform, PT?
Agreed. Their cluelessness is stunning.
I have worked on 747’s, and I don’t buy a damn word of it.
There was a Retired Navy (Pilot) Commander or Captain that did an intensive investigation into this…he was found dead.
Did any terrorist groups try to take credit?
Well, that’s why I won’t take my wife and kids out of country to some of the places I was fortunate enough to see and would like them to get to see also.
I don’t trust the safety outside of CONUS and am loosing faith daily in the safety we have always known here.
Now with this slick move, they have made Americans even more of a target . I’m sure this is another stunt to shore-up a legacy of failure.
“How fucking stupid do they think we are?!?!” My pat answer used to be, “Very. After all look who was elected and re-elected president.” I have to add now, “Very. Look who was elected and re-elected president president and then look at who will replace him. Either candidate will do.”
I have worked in a prison system.
The best thing an employee can see is the sign on the front gate that says:
“No hostages will be allowed past this gate.”
It tells the inmates that even if they kill a hostage, they die. It actually makes us safer.
I was a cop, but I would NEVER be a CO. You have my undying respect.
My cousin was a big muckety muck in the NYC corrections system. The stories he tells me make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
It sounds a little like negotiating with terrorist’s.
I don’t think the community organizer in chief sees the Iranians as terrorists.
To him the Iranians are standing up to American “imperialism”….
^^^^Exactly…..
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
— Representative Robert Goodloe Harper
I would LOVE to see ALL foreign aid, of any kind, size, name, or excuse, come to a screeching halt on 18 Jan 2017.
It would warm the cockles of my heart to see all the countries that we give money and material to, that then diss us, collapse in quivering, whimpering heaps.
You still have cockles left to spare?
Wow. I am in awe of your endurance!
I’m still alive. I guess I still have a cockle or two. Some people might argue that I have a heart (or not) though.
It’s IDGAS (I Don’t Give A Shits) that I’m fresh out of. Or I left them in my other pants pocket. Either one.
Two days before Clinton’s inauguration?
Now wait one damned minute, if I can remember correctly, it was Regan’s Arm’s for Hostages program that opened up the whole Iran-Contra controversy that the liberal media went ape shit over ’bout 30 years ago.
Now granted this is not an arms for hostages deal, but $400 million can buy a ship load of weapons.
This is supposedly the return of assets that were frozen in 1979.
So it’s Jimmy Carter’s fault.
So can $40 billion – which is what we apparently returned to Iran as part of the recent nuclear “good deal” we negotiated with them.
Well, from the Iranian perspective it’s a damned good deal. They get to keep their clandestine nuclear program while we give them money to fund it.
I don’t mind them paying bribes, tribute, or whatever, so long as it is paid in Venezuelan Bolivars at par.
Just because it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and has the DNA of a duck proves nothing. It’s really whatever our superiors tell us it is, and don’t forget it.
Yeah, right, whatever. The gullible may get a lot of press, but the rest of us are out here, in numbers the left has difficulty understanding.
I heard the plane carrying the cash landed in Tehran at midnight and the next day the hostages were released. But hey, these two happenings have nothing to do with each other, says our current regime and their Foggy Bottom truth tellers. Why wouldn’t we believe them? They have a strong record of truthiness; especially under the prior SecState, right?
Uhmmm, well, yeah…
Truth is the truth is the truth. Doesn’t matter one whit who speaks it. Seems to me that THAT is the crux of the Trump appeal. Folks out here in the real world are hungry for it being spoken aloud. By anyone.
The lefties who are determined to bring this country to her knees prefer to lie even when it would be easier to tell the truth. Not that they have any reason to tell the truth about their schemes to financially support those who hope to destroy us. Real people are beyond tired of being expected to pay the bills for our enemies.
Hondo, Hondo, Hondo….
You’d better check the mirror, old boy.
Your cynicism is showing again.
(insert joke about “barn door open” here)
What a mess from start to finish after reading 10,000 plus pages of DNC docs for almost two weeks why is no one (aka) media not talking about all the illegal shit these people have done
Because they just do not care. They long ago latched onto the leftist agenda and are compelled to maintain that support. Doesn’t matter that they have set themselves up on the front lines as targets should the left be successful. They view themselves as so special that they are protected even when the Constitution ceases to be the law of the land.
President Boyfriend must have his legacy at all costs.
We all knew the Pied Piper was a lying POS. What’s 400M smackers? You know, when you promise to transform, you deliver, right? #BHOnegotiates
#becauseMuslimheis
There really is nothing of value here. Hey, did you hear that Trump insulted some Muslim named Kahn and was given a Purple Heart and….
$400m could help a lot of veterans.
The Pentagon raided our $770 million Tricare surplus, so that’s probably where the money came from in the first place.
Yep. It would fund the VA for around 19 hrs 15 min next year.
I’m serious. The VA’s total budget for 2017 is $182.3 billion.
http://www.va.gov/budget/docs/summary/Fy2017-BudgetInBrief.pdf
It’s not an issue of the VA having insufficient resources. It’s an issue of the VA ineffectively using the resources they get.
Well they deserve raises, moving expenses, and palatial offices. Those guys work hard!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-02/white-house-caught-secretly-airlifting-17-billion-us-taxpayer-cash-tehran-ensure-ira
1.7 billion to Iran to bribe the jihadiscum to pretend to play nice on making their nukes.
Lets also not forget that Norks have nukes because of Hillery’s hubby.
And Norkiland is still at war with Oceania. The missiles will be falling any day now. Does Fatty Kim da T’ird have any (God forbid) offspringers? just asking.
Hmmm.
Inauguration day…
My fellow Americans, allow me to address, briefly, those who are holding hosatges against us.
To those who hold americans hostage, anywhere, by 6pm eastern time tomorrow, you will deliver to our control each and every hostage, alive and well. By 6pm eastern time three days hence, you will deliver to us, in gold, every single penny of value paid to you by the previous administration, in any currency or material good.
Upon your failure to obey this directive by the dedlines specified, I will order the armed forces of the United States to obliterate your regimes and your instruments of power, anywhere and everywhere.
You have by your actions declared war upon the united states. You will now reap what you have sown.
As I speak, written copies of this ultimatum are being handed to the appriopriate persons by Neutral intermediaries, with lists of names and gold quantities specified.
There will be no negotiations.
Choose wisely.
Right in front of our faces every day we catch them red handed and all they can say is “I didn’t do it”. It’s like loss prevention catching a shoplifter walking out of the store. They take the shoplifter back to the office with the stolen items. They even have video footage. Yet the shoplifter still claims to be innocent. That’s the level of retardation were dealing with here. The only reason we can’t punish them is because they are in charge of the ones who punish. Once we can get power in the hands of more righteous men then these bastards will cry like little babies. That’s what we need to do. I’ve seen these types of people literally cry like babies when you get power over them and stand up to them. They are the biggest wimps and cowards you will ever meet.
They play these games because they know they can get away with playing these games.
The only way to stop the games being played is to make the repercussions fatal.
That ain’t gonna happen.
We are the weak ones in this.
And, of course, Hitlary claims this is “old news”? What? Feel free to point to the memo made public at the time of the transfer that stated our government was going to do this? I admit, I can’t stay awake during the State of the Union addresses, so did someone see this mentioned?
How much of a carcinogen is the smoke Obama and Hitlary are blowing up the nation’s collective asses?