STATE DEPARTMENT ADMITS PAYING RANDSOM - OBAMA CLAIMS JUSTIFIED BC "MUH FEELS" nypost.com/2016/08/18/state-department-400m-cash-to-iran-was-contingent-on-us-prisoners-release/ The State Department admitted Thursday that the US would not hand over $400 million in cash to Iran until it released four American hostages — two weeks after President Obama insisted the payment was not a “ransom.”
State Department spokesman John Kirby was asked at Thursday’s press briefing: “In basic English, you’re saying you wouldn’t give them $400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct?”
“That’s correct,” Kirby replied.
>In an Aug. 4 press conference, President Obama said the opposite.
>“We do not pay ransom. We didn’t here, and we won’t in the future,” the president told reporters, speaking of the Jan. 17 payment and hostage release.
>Families “know we have a policy that we don’t pay ransom. And the notion that we would somehow start now, in this high-profile way, and announce it to the world, even as we’re looking in the faces of other hostage families whose loved ones are being held hostage, and saying to them ‘We don’t pay ransom,’ defies logic,” Obama added at the time.
Joshua Barnes
fucking ridiculous he gets away with this
Josiah Clark
>WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS top kek
Justin Reyes
hes worse than carter now like its history repeating itself and trump is reagan
Christopher Wood
>implying history doesn't repeat itself
Jordan Gray
His supporters won't care. Independents might.
Owen Phillips
Does this mean we won? We got them to admit it? Why isn't this on the mainstream media sites or networks? What the fuck
Anthony Adams
>Why isn't this on the mainstream media sites or networks?
Do you really have to ask that?
Caleb Russell
Literally the US forcing the Iranians to pay a ransom.
How dumb can some people be to think it was the literal exact opposite of what happened?
Luke Scott
rip murica
Lincoln Hughes
>Why isn't this on the mainstream media sites or networks? Why do you think? It's up to us to get the word out
Brandon Cruz
Well now every American abroad is a giant walking bag of gold. This sets a bad precedent I hope it doesn't get more people kidnapped and ransomed.
Christian Foster
He basically saying > yah I did what are you going to do about... Nothing
Nolan Bailey
Instead the media is just talking about that retarded gas station incident in Rio.
Connor Howard
>Give terrorist ransom >Terrorist buy more guns to kidnap more people for ransom
Nice logic obama
Austin Thompson
>they didn't read the article
Juan Wood
>Reading articles in 2016
Christian Robinson
Lmao get cucked.
Luke Perry
>A country is a terrorist
k m8, also if you think that this is anything more than an exchange of """""good will"""""" then you're wrong.
t.Goyim
Angel Fisher
Obonigger lierally claimed the plane was a hoax.
Grayson Jackson
>#1 state sponsor of terrorism
Christopher Phillips
...
Jose Reed
its fucking iran man
Jonathan Scott
Looks like somebody is going to get robbed by a barbell on his way to his weekly duffelbag swim.
