A short operation like the boots on the ground operation to retrieve the weapons of mass destruction from Iraq? Did we ever find any, I forgot?
Have we had any more Kurds getting gassed since liberating Iraq and Saddam being hung? I think the answer you're looking for here is, NO!
I don't like the idea of "boots on the ground" however we have spent a lot of time, money and human life ridding the world of Iran's ability to terrorize the world! I think we should go in there and secure the damn nukes!
Could Iran be lying? I guess, but all signs point to them having enriched uranium at levels at least capable of a dirty bomb! I'd rather be safe than sorry after all these efforts thus far!
Furthermore, Iran has shown SERIOUS instability by lashing out at even other Arab nations! Bombing cities that haven't anything to do with this joint operation with the USA and Israel!
I think it's clear, the murderous and radical Ayatollah regime -- the one your boy Obama sent PLANE LOADS of cash to without any results -- needs to go!
You see PowerStroker, all this time I have told you that Iran (under the Ayatollah regime) had illegitimate claims to money they gave as a deposit for weapons back when they were a peaceful nation.
For you, it was totally okay to give this radical terrorist regime billions of dollars in cash because you're an Obama worshiper. Rather than using logic, you just blindly stuck to partisanship. Now you look like a fool!
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I don't like the idea of "boots on the ground" however we have spent a lot of time, money and human life ridding the world of Iran's ability to terrorize the world! I think we should go in there and secure the damn nukes!
That's a legitimate perspective, certainly worthy of debate in Congress and a funding request right?
Did Obama seek the collective wisdom of Congress before loading up a few airplanes worth of cash and sending them to Iran? Or did he do an end-run around congress and use some secret account to pony up the cash?
That being said, you should just sit down with all that Holier than thou "worthy of congress" drivel! You guys had your chance, you screwed up BADLY -- and now we are having to clean up the mess of them CASH FUNDS your boy gave them!
Frankly, I find your suggestion of involving Congress to clean up a mess YOUR PARTY caused without seeking Congress quite a bit insulting and hypocritical!
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Congress gave Obama an account to pay claims with, and upon receiving a judgement from an international court that the US helped to establish, paid such a claim. Congress could have shut down that account a long time ago, but as far as I know, it still exists today. Obama merely returned Iranian money to Iran pursuant to a court order.
More lies! PowerStroker, you're entitled to your own opinions -- but not your own facts!
1st off, there was no Judgement that I am aware of! Obama just decided to stick his big fat nose into foreign policy and send his pals a few billion in cash!
2nd, there was no obligation for the US to return Iran's money after the stunts they pulled when the Ayatollah family brutally overthrew the government! Furthermore, even if there had been a ruling -- said ruling could have been appealed, and would have been!
It was 100% Obama's decision to butt into what our international law team was handling! Now that time has passed we have seen what Iran has done with that CASH MONEY that Obama sent them! If you ask me he should be held to account!
I demand that you produce this "court order" as I have done every other time you have used such a false narrative in the past! Because if there is one, I think every Judge who authorized said "order" should be held to account as well!
I'll be waiting!
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Well then it should be somewhere on your computer if you already posted it! C'mon PowerStroker! We wanna see that Judgement you keep talking about!
You don't have it, because it does not exist! The case was still being litigated prior to Obama just deciding to send Iran billions in cash!
You're lucky it's busy here or I'd be busting your chops in all these other threads right now too... Things being what they are, I'll have to savor them for later -- if I'm not completely wiped out by the end of the day.
Getting old is a bitch you know.
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