It seems our fine leader paid the Iranians $400,000,000 in tribute for the release of our navy hostages, or so the WSJ says. http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sent-cash-to-iran-as-americans-were-freed-1470181874 No since we fought the Barbary Pirates in 1805 has the United States paid pirates tribute for American sailors... "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute".....Until obama http://nefertiti67.tripod.com/pirates/id1.html Perhaps our most embarrassing moment...apparently it was not enough to buy Iran a path to the bomb....we also had to buy our sailors back. Is there nothing this President won't do to embarrass the nation.
It's disgusting in the worst way. It sets a precedent. And Hillary will follow it. The press will excuse it. I'm glad that scumbag will be out of the Whitehouse soon. It can't be soon enough.
State Department spokesman John Kirby denied the cash transfer was done to secure the release of the four Americans. The negotiations over the [arms deal] settlement ... were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home," Kirby said in a statement. "Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side." "The funds that were transferred to Iran were related solely to the settlement of a long-standing claim at the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal at The Hague," Kirby's statement concluded. 3rd thread about this
