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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1192154)1/9/2020 3:50:26 PM
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Sylvester,
The money was Iran's OWN MONEY for weapons.
You're just repeating the excuse as if repetition makes it any more valid.

Whether or not it was legally their money isn't the issue here.

We had control over that money. We had GOOD REASONS not to hand it over to Iran. You know, funding terrorism, strengthening Islamic fundamentalism, giving more power to the Ayatollah (despite the promises that the payment was supposed to strengthen the so-called "political moderates" in Iran).

Besides, there was no urgency to hand it back to Iran. The World Court never made an official decision, and even if they did, such a decision really doesn't carry much weight. There was no international pressure to return that money to Iran.

The fact is that Obama unilaterally decided that none of the above mattered, and that if we just treated Iran nicely, they would treat us nicely in return.

And like I said before, Obama never got congressional approval for what he did. He even went out of his way to avoid calling it a "treaty" because that was his way of getting around that pesky Constitution thingy.

Yes, I stand by my assertion that the excuse is intellectual cowardice. You only prove my point with false analogies and your usual autocomplete language.

Tenchusatsu
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