Posted on 10/08/2023 7:06:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that none of the $6 billion released by the U.S. for humanitarian aid in Iran was used to help fund Hamas’ attack against Israel on Saturday, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
Anchor Dana Bash said, “While we’re talking about Iran, I have to ask you to, if you want to respond to what we’re hearing from Republicans who are over and over since this happened using word appeasement when it comes to Iran and they criticized the decision to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds. I know and want to state that that money has not yet been unfrozen. Iran does not yet have it. But the accusation is that…your administration posture towards Iran has helped contribute to this. I want to give you a chance to respond.”
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Exactly.
One liar talking to another liar.
And that's the only answer. I just keep repeating it, even to freepers here who, unlike Blinken, aren't flat out lying, they're just not thinking.
Put it this way; if I've got the winning Powerball ticket in my pocket and I can't cash it in until Monday, I'm spending like a drunken sailor on Sunday.
Wait. I thought they couldn’t trace what US tax dollars sent to our “ally” Ukraine were spent on. But they can instantly trace where money sent to Iran went?
Tony, pull the other one. Unless you are a very highly placed Iranian agent, you can’t know this.
If I know I’ve got a big windfall coming, I am going to spend the money I have.
So in essence, it doesn’t matter if they actually got the money or not.
Weasel words from the worlds biggest weasel.
L
Well yes, the US gave them their money that was froze as part of the sanctions they earned by the habitual support for terrorism world wide.
Play all the semantic games they want, but going back to the $100 billion Obama/Biden gave Iran in 2015, this blood is on the Biden’s regimes hands
Money is fungible
This is a joke. When you given a country billions of dollars it goes into their general funds. When they support terrorism from those funds how can you possibly say that the billions you gave them were the specific monies not spent on terrorism? Ridiculous.
Yeh sure! 🙄
democrat are horrible lying people.
As if he can pin point
Of course US dollars were used. He and Biden are idiots
We pay for the gun and the bullets that will be in the hands of our wxecutioners This entire nation’s
destructive catrophe began after the evil one was sworn in. Biden’s direction comes from the sinister homosexual Obama.
I would think it means just the opposite and they are confident they have hidden any trail showing their lies.
Obama had “unfrozen” 80 billion years before- so how was it that there was still billions supposedly still frozen?
Fat fingers
Iran imports about 8 billion dollars of food a year. That 6 billion dollars we gave them can be used to pay for this. This leaves 6 billion extra in their economy to spend on war.
Blinken lies.
“Money is fungible.”
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So is the perception of weakness. When appease and you give in on something, it sends a broader message about your lack of resolve.
Sure, if he says so.
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