US delayed flight to Iran with $400m until American prisoners had been released

[Althea]

we don't do it. it is illegal to transact any monies with Iran, hence the behind the scenes payout in cash.
It's a bad idea. US citizens are kidnapped allover the world, and our policy is not to pay ransom.
If you wanna change policy..

It wasn't illegal when we took their money.

 

[midcan5]

One thing has to be clear to any thoughtful American, Obama could walk on water, change water into wine, and raise the dead and they'd still whine. Whining is a right wing American pastime. It is all they do. Giving Iran back its own money is ransom? Hardly. Very smart move, a bit of leverage when dealing with an untrustworthy nation. Bravo, and our Americans are home safe, you should all be cheering instead of the usual whining.

Rhetorical question, if the right wing conservatives didn't whine about everything what would they do? They fail in power as our useless congress and senate prove daily. And still they wonder why an empty headed blowhard leads their party.

 

[anatta]

It wasn't illegal when we took their money.

true. If the State Dept wasn't so sleezy with the truth..
The Spokespeople are so crooked they walk around/speak in circles.
Just admit to the leverage to begin with..but no..

 

[Althea]

true. If the State Dept wasn't so sleezy with the truth..
The Spokespeople are so crooked they walk around/speak in circles.
Just admit to the leverage to begin with..but no..

You're so anti everything, you aren't seeing the chess game. SD isn't trying to lie to you. They're making it clear that this was no ransom payment in order to make it clear to others that we still do not make deals with terrorists.

Do you think that any money would have exchanged hands if we didn't owe them?

 

[anatta]

You're so anti everything, you aren't seeing the chess game. SD isn't trying to lie to you. They're making it clear that this was no ransom payment in order to make it clear to others that we still do not make deals with terrorists.

Do you think that any money would have exchanged hands if we didn't owe them?

I think the money was used to leverage release.
Why not just say so? I'm anti- Foggy Bottom Language from gov't spokespeople who are their to deceive more then to illuminate.
I mean this still isn't the USSR where propaganda is the goal of the ruling class..or is it?

The whole Obama administration's goal is/has been to further their limited political objective, at the expense of transparency.
To obscure inconvenient truths

 

[Althea]

I think the money was used to leverage release.
Why not just say so? I'm anti- Foggy Bottom Language from gov't spokespeople who are their to deceive more then to illuminate.
I mean this still isn't the USSR where propaganda is the goal of the ruling class..or is it?

The whole Obama administration's goal is/has been to further their limited political objective, at the expense of transparency.
To obscure inconvenient truths

I disagree. This is nothing but another Right Wing faux scandal, that you've been sucked into.

In the Mid East, pandering and chest pounding is how things work. Iraq did it for decades, until the moron Bush took it literally and used that rhetoric to launch an illegal war.

Iran publicly claims it was ransom

U.S publicly claims it was not.

Business as usual.

 

[Airstrip One]

And you wonder why it's a bad thing that people believe Iran and not the US...

 

[anatta]

I disagree. This is nothing but another Right Wing faux scandal, that you've been sucked into.

In the Mid East, pandering and chest pounding is how things work. Iraq did it for decades, until the moron Bush took it literally and used that rhetoric to launch an illegal war.

Iran publicly claims it was ransom

U.S publicly claims it was not.

Business as usual.

State's creeping language trying to shape a narrative - instead of using the appropriate facts is not a faux scandal.
It's business as usual with the Obama adm, and Clinton State dept.

 

[Althea]

State's creeping language trying to shape a narrative - instead of using the appropriate facts is not a faux scandal.
It's business as usual with the Obama adm, and Clinton State dept.

Nope. It's business as usual in the Mid East.

 

[anatta]

Nope. It's business as usual in the Mid East.

sure. all the more reason to stop this pre-text that Iran is a rational actor (swayable); and all we got do is act nice and they'll respond in kind..
The entire agreement only made Iran richer, more expansionist - and resilient to international sanctions.

They are tromping around the ME ( Yemen/Lebanon/Syria/Iraq) and allying with Russia .

There is nothing for the US in dealing with them but "death to America".
Obama's policy of "balance" was pure fecklessness, and de-stabilizing to our allies

 

[NOVA]

One thing has to be clear to any thoughtful American, Obama could walk on water, change water into wine, and raise the dead and they'd still whine. Whining is a right wing American pastime. It is all they do. Giving Iran back its own money is ransom? Hardly. Very smart move, a bit of leverage when dealing with an untrustworthy nation. Bravo, and our Americans are home safe, you should all be cheering instead of the usual whining.

Rhetorical question, if the right wing conservatives didn't whine about everything what would they do? They fail in power as our useless congress and senate prove daily. And still they wonder why an empty headed blowhard leads their party.

You sound like you're WHINING......fool...