That's not a "slight exaggeration", it's a lie - anything that is not the truth, and NOBODY knows if this statement is actual truth, is a lie - period.
While I greatly admired the tenor of the President's speech this morning, slipping in little digs like this continually feeds ammo to the enemy media.
were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration.
Obama gave them money that had been frozen for decades. To claim "it their money" is a shameless pathetic lie. There was no obligation what so ever to unfreeze those assess until Iran made just compensation for seizing the US Embassy in 1979.
Rational sane leaders do not hand over billions to the leading State Sponsor of Terror knowing it going to be used to attack your own troops and allies. That you scumbags are desperately trying to parse this in such a despicable fraudulent way today make you morally the same sort of scum as them.
Not necessarily. The agreement was signed in 2013. If, in fact, those missiles were constructed after that date, then they were paid for with the money we released to them. Of course, we may have no idea when they were built - but on the other hand, if they were newer models brought into service after we released funds, then in a very real sense that paid for them. A dollar (or whatever unit of currency) is a dollar is a dollar - they are fungible, and if those extra $150 billion weren’t available, then at least a portion of Iran’s forces literally wouldn’t exist.
they released Iranian funds before law suits could be finalized. The money was used against us.
It was a stupid thing for them to do...
What the hell are you talking about?
Another RedState never Trump jackass checks in
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Fallacy of the excluded middle.
Please look up the word “fungible.”
Did you think he meant the exact same paper bills? Add $100 to my checking account and I spend an extra 100 over and above next week. But wait, wait, wait !!! . . . I already had 200 in my account. So it’s a a lie that I spent the 100 you gave me.
Money is fungible. What am I missing?
That's not a "slight exaggeration", it's a lie - anything that is not the truth, and NOBODY knows if this statement is actual truth, is a lie - period.
The cash payment of $1.7 billion, a settlement of a decades-old dispute between the U.S. and Iran -- was paid in cash, with a planeload of $400 million delivered to Tehran on Jan. 17 2016, the same day Iran agreed to release four American prisoners. A remaining $1.3 billion was reportedly paid out within weeks of that first payment.
The $150 billion, meanwhile, refers to the estimated value of Iranian assets that had been frozen abroad in financial institutions as part of international sanctions. That money was unfrozen by all countries as part of the Iran deal. Some fact checkers have disputed that the value is as high as $150 billion, citing Treasury estimates that it could be around $55 billion in liquid assets.
How do YOU know it’s not true? Is it possible?
You posit: Anything we don’t know to be true is a lie.
OK. “You are a smart person.” Anybody here know if that’s true?
.were paid for with the funds made available by the last administratio
If nobody knows it’s the truth, then how do you know it’s a lie?
You have heard of investing money have you not. We know for a fact that 1,7 billion was provided by Obama, in cash. They could have very easily invested it in China and multiplied it considerably.
I know it is true, you @sshole, period.
When did you become omnipotent?
Calling President Trump a liar is not something a 6 year FReeper would normally do, unless you really are a never Trumper.
Two Australian words for you, PISS OFF.