Posted on 08/09/2016 4:52:36 AM PDT by SJackson
Hey, as long as obama makes it profitable, the Iranians will keep on making dough.
Why not? Everything to gain and nothing to lose, thanks to president gormless.
This is beginning to remind me of the Carter-Reagan situation. Iran was treating the US very badly, but the day Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released the hostages.
I wonder if it will take a Trump presidency to get the Mullahs to desist?
The “ransom” was just the excuse. Obama wanted to fund his Muzzie brothers because that’s what his handlers had him do and where his sympathies lie.
He’d have sent them a billion if they’d found a lost dog.
No way, no how would I travel to Iran, I don’t care what the financial reward would be. Even If I had relatives there, I would encourage them to visit me, not the other way around. Then again, I have no desire to leave the United States ever again. Or get on a plane for that matter. Hell, I dislike leaving New Hampshire to go to my yearly appointment at the veterans Administration in Mass.
...millions for ransom, not one dime for defense...
Certainly seeing shades of 1979 on steroids,
At least jimmy carter, while he played the weak ineffectual fool perfectly never tried to give Iran a nuclear bomb, even outright buying one for them,
Sunni Muslim Obama is doing everything he can to endanger Christians around the world and Israel in the middle east and to flood the West with military age Muslim men,
Those ICBMs Iran wants to arm are not meant for Tel Aviv,
Because, you know, Crusades.
In Obama’s mind, America is an evil country in need of check and diminishing. He believes the world will be a safer place without the United States being strong.
Doesn’t matter that his presidency proves the contrary and the Middle East is in complete flames and chaos due to his and Hillary’s ineptitude. Liberals, true to their Marxist roots, care nothing of the damage done in the real world by their policies.
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Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rumoured to be planning a political comeback, has asked Barack Obama to return $2 billion of assets frozen in the US in a letter made public Monday. In a letter from Ahmadinejad, to “Supreme Excellency” BHO. WTF
“Never kill a cash cow”..........
“Those ICBMs Iran wants to arm are not meant for Tel Aviv,”
I’d do a deal like that in a play on words: I’d arm a few ICBMs and send them to them air express.
WHY the USA should NEVER PAY RANSOM to ANYONE:
The main reason ransom payments are ill-advised is that we get more of whatever the US GOV’T pays for.
We only need to remember the lesson VP Thomas Jefferson taught President John Adams(2nd president) when American Merchant Mariners were being kidnapped from the decks of American unarmed trading ships.
The VP to Pres. Adams advised him not to accede to ransom demands of Islamist pirates of Tripoli in the Mediterranean Sea, but Adams ignored his advice.
Jefferson’s advice proved to be valid and ransom money payments swelled to 25% of the US GDP, forcing US economy into deep recession.
When Adams ran for re-election, TJ ran against him with the slogan, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” The winner of the 2016 presidential election should adopt the same policy.
TJ won the election. He sent the USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides” with sharpshooting Marines using Kentucky rifles firing from high up the masts, and they kicked pirate hind parts from one end of the North African Coast to the other, forcing their surrender and cessation of predatory tactics on American sailors.
In this war Marines began wearing thick leather collars to protect their throats from pirates’ slashing sabers and henceforth became know as “Leathernecks”.
They were immortalized in the first line of the Marines’ Hymn: “From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country’s battles on the land and on the sea.”
Jefferson should be emulated by our present day politicians.
At $100M for each hostage taken by Iran.
Perhaps Hillary can offer a free speaking gig in exchange for one of the hostages.
Another Obummer legacy he will be proud of.
What are the doing in Iran in the first place.
Assumption of risk. It is on their heads.
Wondering what the price was to get our sailors back?
If my neighbor paid me large amounts of money to smear dog poop in his face, I would happily continue doing it.
If only Hillary would pay me large amounts of money to be smearing dog poop in her face, I’d gladly be doing that.....
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