Yes, Obama Helped
Fund the Iranian Regime
National Review,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
1/9/2020 4:42:42 AM
In his address to the nation this morning, Donald Trump asserted that the ballistic missiles that targeted the al-Assad and Erbil bases in Iraq yesterday were paid for using “funds made available by the last administration.” Few things irritate media fact checkers more than Trump’s accusation that Obama helped fund the Iranian regime and its terror apparatus. Probably because it’s completely true.
Now, we don’t really know that Obama’s ransom payments to Iran in 2016 subsidized those specific ballistic missiles, but we do know that money is fungible — especially when you have access to small denominations of European cash — and that the military,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/9/2020 5:51:05 AM (No. 282961)
When Pres. Trump said that in his speech yesterday, I said it's about time that this president calls out Obama. You can thank Jarrett, Kerry and Obama for this dangerous deal. Don't forget good old Joe.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/9/2020 6:32:13 AM (No. 282984)
Now that we have that straight, I would go so far as to say that it also helped fund the Kalorama house and the 27 acre estate on Martha's Vineyard.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 1/9/2020 6:52:16 AM (No. 282999)
What else would a good radical Muslim do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sydney727 1/9/2020 6:55:22 AM (No. 283001)
Well, Brian Kilmeade got really bent out of shape this morning on Fox & Friends when Steve Doucey asserted that Obama's "donations" to Iran helped fund the very missiles that struck our base the other night. Very bent out of shape. It was an interesting thing to watch.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/9/2020 8:01:45 AM (No. 283051)
Gonna be fascinating to watch the media contortions as the year progresses. I am certain that this speech was just the opening round of exposing the corrupt players of the last administration at last. The media helped build it, and they know they did. They did this nation a disservice with their quite compliance to Obama, and they need to also be held accountable. Doing your job as media means BOTH sides, not just the republicans.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/9/2020 8:20:36 AM (No. 283067)
Money is fungible. When you pay a junkies rent you are purchasing his or her next fix. We would be no more or less responsible for arming them had we provided the missiles directly. And let's not forger the Obama-Clinton to Russia to Iran uranium supply to help then deliver death to America.
How is that difficult to grasp? Of course my favorite the Illinois lottery which went to "education" and we weren't supposed to notice the shell game.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/9/2020 9:07:30 AM (No. 283141)
Say it loud, say it often; obambiden absolutely did fund terror against US, and they did so intentionally. And, don't tell me I don't know their intentions or motivation. I do, and you do too. Thumb up, poster #7!! Poster #4, I guess Juan convinced Brian that the assertion was foolish on yesterday's The Five. Juan got very heated too. "It was their money," he said.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Namma 1/9/2020 9:16:24 AM (No. 283155)
the media is saying the money given to Iran was theirs. It was sanction money. Isn't that foreign aid money from the United States. Well to me that is our tax payers money. Why are we giving a country that shouts death to America. Thought the money was being held back because of their actions. We have our own people that need help. stop giving our money away. We earned it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/9/2020 9:58:46 AM (No. 283205)
#6 is precisely correct. Congratulations.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/9/2020 11:25:16 AM (No. 283287)
The left is very animated about the fact that BO didn't give the Iranians billions, he allowed them to reclaim their money. Well, enemies of America, to that I would say, 'Guess what? All that money has been impounded by the USA for your destruction of US property, the holding of US citizens as hostages and your blatant death and destruction campaign against America and it's citizens for decades. You get NOTHING back, in fact be grateful we don't bill you for the rest by raining death on every last member of your evil government.'
Of course the son of a muslim, the boy trained and raised as a muslim, the man who loves the muslims, was happy to give Iran many billions of dollars with at least one billion of those dollars coming from taxpayers. Stupid, willfully ignorant news readers aside, everyone else knows the truth and exactly what happened.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/9/2020 12:28:20 PM (No. 283392)
The Enemedia yowl and screetch when this is pointed out. But screetch away, it is still a obvious, hard fact.
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Barry told you ahead of time who he would stand with and he did. I think JonFraud should be charged with sedition.
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