Posted on 08/12/2016 3:29:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The latest victim in the presidential race’s assault on truth — to say nothing of nuance — came last week in the flurry of accusations surrounding the United States’ payment of $400 million to Iran. Donald Trump called it ransom, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) accused the United States of acting like a “drug cartel.”
In reality, the payment represented continued adherence to a masterful feat of American diplomacy and to the peaceful resolution of disputes under international law. Ronald Reagan understood how important it is for us to keep our promises — which is why, as president, he upheld the agreement negotiated by the Carter administration that led to the recent payment.
The payment was not a ransom but rather part of a settlement agreement that the United States reached with Iran for claims arising out of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which toppled the pro-American shah and brought the current Islamist government to power. Before the revolution, the United States had signed hundreds of contracts with Iran, then an ally, to sell it military equipment. When the hostile Islamist regime took power, the military sales relationship collapsed. That left hundreds of millions of dollars of outstanding claims between the two countries and their citizens: claims both by U.S. companies for breached contracts and expropriated properties, and Iranian demands for the delivery or return of equipment that Iran had already paid for but not received — not to mention the issue of the 52 Americans that Iran then held hostage.
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The Washington Post has an EYE-WITNESS - one of its OWN "reporters", who was ON the plane that was held until the ransom was delivered AND COUNTED.
The trash that needs to be taken out is piling up in the District of Columbia. Mounds of reeking, leaking black garbage bags filled with rotting excrement, as far as the eye can see...
Now you know why they are known as the Washington Post ... dumber than a fence post ... located in Washington, DC.
That has to be NOT-counted before the NOT-hostages are released...
The post has opted to support our sworn enemies.
It’s obvious that they made this decision because they love the iranians who hate us, and because iranians are muzzards, and muzzards are in the pocket of the democrat party, and will vote for hillary, etc.
Since Hillary's Washington Post SuperPAC has declared this "payment" not to be a ransom, it is a ransom.
That's just my opinion.
I do appreciate the effort to share information. My beef is with the source.
Another Freeper summed it up best. “...the payout was the result of a ruling by an international tribunal” Great, how many armored divisions does the international tribunal have?
Damn, I threw up a little.
The Ministry of Truth spinners the liars of media weigh in.
The Washington Post is crapping bricks. The Nazi propagandists at the post know that the clown prince Obuma committed treason.
we sure live with a bunch of real Bozos, don’t we?
Hurl
A world gone insane. When the mushroom cloud goes over Tel Aviv from a missile fired from Tehran, be sure to remember the Washington comPost praised Hussein.
Pallets of cash that they were so proud of that they didn’t tell anybody about it.
Yeah - holding our guys hostage was just a coincidence.... and laundering the money for them was just a bit of extra nuanced tactfulness....
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