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 Post subject: Re: Dumbo and the Middle East
PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:08 pm 
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Obama’s Cash Payment to Iran Was More Than a Ransom — It Broke Criminal Law

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But who will hold him to account?


The president hoped to camouflage what he knew to be against the law. Did it ever occur to President Obama to ask why he couldn’t just cut a check to the Iranian regime?

Outrage broke out this week over the revelation that Obama arranged to ship the mullahs piles of cash, worth $400 million and converted into foreign denominations, reportedly in an unmarked cargo plane. The hotly debated question was whether the payment, which the administration attributes to a 37-year-old arms deal, was actually a ransom paid for the release of American hostages Tehran had abducted.

It is a waste of time to debate that point further. The Iranians have bragged that the astonishing cash payment was a ransom — and Obama has been telling us for months that we can trust the Iranians. The hostages were released the same day the cash arrived. One of the hostages has reported that the captives were detained an extra several hours at the airport and told they would not be allowed to leave until the arrival of another plane — inferentially, the unmarked cargo plane ferrying the cash. The reason American policy has always prohibited paying ransoms to terrorists and other abductors is that it only encourages them to take more hostages. And, as night follows day, Iran has abducted more Americans since Obama paid the cash. No matter how energetically the president tries to lawyer the ransom issue, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . .

More worth examining is why the transaction took the bizarre form that it did. To cut to the chase, I believe it was to camouflage — unsuccessfully — the commission of felony law violations.

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Looks Like Team Trump Just Made Iran Blink

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The "what we have here is a failure to communicate" moment has just been resolved by Trump and Mad-dog without the fanfare, stern letters, red or yellow lines, UN or BS.

It looks like Iran just blinked in the face of tough talk — and new economic sanctions — from the Trump administration.

Fox News reports that new satellite imagery, verified by US officials, shows Iran has abruptly removed a new missile that was being prepared for launch as recently as Friday.

It was a long-range Safir missile — a class that Tehran last launched into space two years ago, and that uses the same components as those needed for an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The images showed a flurry of activity, including a host of visitors, on the launchpad Feb. 3, the day the missile was first spotted.

Then, on Tuesday, the missile was gone.

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Iran Conducts More Missile Tests, Seemingly Daring America To Do Something About It

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Thanks Obama!!



As tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to mount, the semi-official news agency Tasnim is reporting that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has successfully conducted yet another ballistic missile test, this time from a navy vessel. Called the Hormuz 2, these latest missiles are designed to destroy moving targets at sea at ranges up to 300 km (180 miles).

Reports on the latest test quotes Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, who confirmed that “the naval ballistic missile called Hormuz 2 successfully destroyed a target which was 250 km away.”

The missile test is the latest event in a long-running rivalry between Iran and the United States in and around the Strait of Hormuz, which guards the entrance to the Gulf. About 20% of the world’s oil passes through the waterway, which is less than 40 km wide at its narrowest point.

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 Post subject: Re: Dumbo and the Middle East
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Remember When Obama Claimed He Got All The Chemical Weapons Out Of Syria?

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Remember when they claimed that they did? If they had we wouldn’t have this question now.

Yay Obama deals! Let us hope we don’t find out about the failure of the Iran nuclear deal in the same way…




Reports on Tuesday revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies again targeted civilians in a deadly attack where chemical weapons were used. The attack is the worst chemical attack in the six-year Syrian civil war.

Rewind back to the fall of 2013, when the Obama administration was working with Syrian and Russian leaders to ensure that Assad’s stockpile of chemical weapons would be turned over and destroyed. A deal was reached, and the Obama administration and fellow Democrats applauded the achievement. The deal was reached after President Barack Obama drew his now infamous “red-line,” where he threatened military action against Assad if he used chemical weapons.

For several years, Democratic lawmakers and Obama administration officials touted that Syria turned over “100 percent” of its chemical weapon stockpile.

“It turns out we are getting chemical weapons out of Syria without initiating a strike,” Obama said.

“We struck a deal where we got a hundred percent of the chemical weapons out,” then Secretary of State John Kerry said.

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Susan Rice Pushed False Claim About Obama Admin Getting Rid Of Chemical Weapons In Syria

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Is she even capable of NOT lying?



According to a recent headline from Reuters, “U.S. intelligence agencies suspect Assad did not turn over all chemical weapons stockpile.” The evidence of the recent chemical attack in Syria makes that declaration little more than stating the obvious. However, back in January in an in interview with NPR, Obama national security adviser Susan Rice was still touting the Obama administration’s success at removing chemical weapons in Syria:

We were able to find a solution that didn’t necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. Our aim in contemplating the use of force following the use of chemical weapons in August of 2013 was not to intervene in the civil war, not to become involved in the combat between Assad and the opposition, but to deal with the threat of chemical weapons by virtue of the diplomacy that we did with Russia and with the Security Council. We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.

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Remember all the WMD's everyone said Saddam had? That couldn't be found? Remember all the satellite images of truck convoys racing into Syria? I do.

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Before you get a big 'ol woody because 45 is going to drag us into another war...you should get all the facts first. I know you listen to faux news and the sexual predator, but you need to read.
For example: (TRY to follow a long)


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The US warned the Russians ahead of Syria missile strikes
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said in an official statement: "Russian forces were notified in advance of the strike using the established deconfliction line.

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ABC News: Syrians Knew Of Attack, Moved Personnel, Critical Targets.
Per ABC News, an eyewitness to last night’s attacks advised that the Syrian military knew of the forthcoming attack and acted in advance to move military targets out of harm’s way.

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Oil settles at $52.24, up 1.04 percent, following US missile strike in Syria

I'm sure all 45's administration is happy about that (ie; Tillerson)

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TRUMP: 'Beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack'

Hey here's a thought: Why doesn't 45 and the rest of his deplorables take a look at the American "beautiful babies" that were killed at Sandy Hook. Gee what do you think he should do about that Bomb a gun factory???
One more point to ponder... maybe start a 45 flipper thread...


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Hillary Throws Obama Under The Bus, Criticizes His Syria Policy, Says US Should Have Had Stronger Response Under Obama

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIpgRTTLqE&feature=youtu.be+

I’m still shocked she lost.

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Obama Was Conned By Assad When He Said He Got Rid Of Chemical Weapons

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We knew 0bama/ Kerry deal was nothing but them getting punked by Syria.



Embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad is stockpiling weapons of mass destruction rather than handing over them as agreed last summer, the Sunday Times reported, quoting Israeli and Russian sources.

The report cites the sources as saying that the WMDs, which include chemical and biological weapons, are being upgraded with North Korean and Iranian assistance, and are believed by the Israelis to be located in Western Syria, in “the heartland of his Alawite sect”. They are to serve, the paper said, “as an insurance policy in case (Assad’s) country is eventually partitioned.”

This area where the weapons are stored, according to the report, includes the coastal region around the port city of Latakia, which last week was bombed in an attack that Palestinian sources said had been carried out by Israel.

The report also quotes a source in Israeli military intelligence as saying that, “This region is now totally fortified and isolated from the rest of Syria”.

One of the sources reportedly told the Times: “Syria has given up only about 4% of its chemical weapons arsenal, will miss this week’s deadline to send all toxic agents abroad for destruction, and probably will miss the June 30 deadline when the entire 1,300 tons of lethal chemical weapons were due to be destroyed.”

Assad, whose regime last week took part in peace talks in Geneva with the opposition forces determined to topple him, is reportedly looking to consolidate his rule in the small area of Syria that is home to his Alawite sect. The sect, despite only comprising 10 percent of the Syrian population, has held power in the country since the 1960s.

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Chuck Schumer: Missile Launch ‘The Right Thing To Do’

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Quite a surprise coming from the hyper-partisan Schumer.



House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer broke with his fellow Democrats to praise President Trump’s military action against Syria.

“Making sure Assad knows that when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do,” Schumer said in a statement released late Thursday. “I salute the professionalism and skill of our Armed Forces who took action today.”

Following the missile launch at 8:40 p.m. Thursday, some Democratic lawmakers criticized Trump for not asking Congress permission before choosing to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at an airbase in west Syria where it’s believed Tuesday’s chemical weapon attack originated.

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Obama Admin Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, But Misled The Public Anyway

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Hey, what’s a lie or two?

Don't hold your breath waiting for chuckmo or any other libs to even acknowledge this info.

They are the sheep that allowed themselves to be lied to, as long as it keeps dems in power.

Remember: Obama lied and people actually died.




The Obama administration may have known that it failed to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons well in advance of Tuesday’s deadly attack.

In the wake of the recent chemical weapons that killed innocent civilians, including women and children, observers immediately recalled former President Barack Obama’s 2013 deal, which allowed the president to back down from his red line on chemical weapons, and the administration’s comments in the aftermath.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry stated in 2014 that the Obama administration “got 100 percent of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria.” Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice commented in January that the president and his team were “able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”

At the time, fact-checking site Poltifact reported that the administration’s comments were “mostly true;” however, the site has since re-evaluated its assessment. “Either Syria never fulling complied with its 2013 promise to reveal all of its chemical weapons; or it did, but then converted otherwise non-lethal chemicals to military uses.”

“One way or another, subsequent events have proved Kerry wrong,” the site explained.

There is evidence that suggests that the Obama administration knew Syria still had chemical weapons yet misled the public anyway, according to The American Interest.

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chuckmo48 wrote:
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Obama Admin Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, But Misled The Public Anyway


You quote the Daily Caller? ...fake news!


Obama's 'red line' failure assured crisis in Syria

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"Assad gave up his chemical weapons," Obama told the American public in May 2015. "That's not speculation on our part. That, in fact, has been confirmed by the organization internationally that is charged with eliminating chemical weapons."

In January of this year, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice boasted about how the administration's decision to step back from the red line was actually a great success.


Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons…Those Have Been Eliminated’
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The Obama administration’s assertions about the surrender and destruction of President Bashar al-Assad’s stockpile of chemical weapons are back under the microscope following last week’s toxic gas attack on a town in northwestern Syria.

In 2015, President Obama said he had not gone ahead with promised military action against the regime after a deadly sarin gas attack near Damascus in 2013, “because Assad gave up his chemical weapons.”

“And I don’t think that there are a lot of folks in the region who are disappointed that Assad is no longer in possession of one of the biggest stockpiles of chemical weapons of any country on Earth,” he said. “Those have been eliminated.”


Washington Post Fact Checker Gives Former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice Four Pinocchios for Syrian Chemical Weapons Statement

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The Fact Checker noted that PolitiFact removed a statement from its website by then-Secretary of State John Kerry that “We got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” which they had rated as mostly true in 2014 and said that while Rice’s remarks were more nuanced than Kerry’s, they were still problematic:

“In her NPR interview, Rice acknowledged that the Syrian civil war was the administration’s biggest disappointment but she pointed to the removal of chemical weapons from Syria as an achievement. President Barack Obama scrubbed a planned attack on Syrian facilities — which planners believed would have left two-thirds of Syria’s chemical weapons intact — in exchange for a diplomatic solution that was to result in the removal of all chemical weapons.

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Declassified Intel Report Shows Obama’s Chemical Weapons Deal With Assad Was A Complete Failure

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Slowly & amazingly the truth is creeping out on what a sham & failure Obama was. He & his administration are a complete disgrace to our country!


The Syrian government was supposed to relinquish its chemical weapons arsenal in 2014 under a deal promoted by the Obama administration, but a recently declassified French intelligence report has proven it to be an abject failure.

France’s declassified “national evaluation” examined evidence gathered from a sarin attack, which killed more than 80 civilians in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun April 4. The report not only determined that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was behind the attack, but also that the measures taken to ensure Assad gave up his stockpile were sorely inadequate.

“France assesses that major doubts remain as to the accuracy, exhaustiveness and sincerity of the decommissioning of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal,” the report reads. “In particular, France assesses that Syria has maintained a capacity to produce or stock sarin, despite its commitment to destroy all stocks and capacities. Lastly, France assesses that Syria has not declared tactical munitions (grenades and rockets) such as those repeatedly used since 2013.”

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Iran Using U.S. Cash Supplied By US To Fund Unprecedented Military Buildup

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The legacy of Barack Obama and John Kerry.



Iran is using the billions in cash resources provided under the landmark nuclear deal to engage in an unprecedented military buildup meant to transform the Islamic Republic’s fighting force into an “offensive” juggernaut, according to a largely unreported announcement by Iranian military leaders that has sparked concern among U.S. national security insiders and sources on Capitol Hill.

Iranian officials announced late last month that Iran’s defense budget had increased by 145 percent under President Hassan Rouhani and that the military is moving forward with a massive restructuring effort aimed at making it “a forward moving force,” according to regional reports.

Iranian leaders have stated since the Iran deal was enacted that they are using the massive amounts of cash released under the agreement to fund the purchase of new military equipment and other armaments. Iran also has pursued multi-million dollar arms deals with Russia since economic sanctions were nixed as part of the deal.

Leading members of Congress and U.S. officials working on the Iran portfolio suspect that at least a portion of the Obama administration’s $1.7 billion cash payment to Iran has been used to fund and support terrorists in the Middle East.

The latest disclosure about Iran’s military buildup is further fueling concerns that U.S. cash assets returned to the country—which were released with no strings attached by the Obama administration—are helping Iran pursue a more aggressive military stance against U.S. forces in the region.

“President Obama flat-out caved in to Iran when he handed them the disastrous nuclear deal and $1.7 billion in cash payments that could assist Iran’s military,” Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), an opponent of the nuclear deal, told the Washington Free Beacon. “So it’s no surprise that the world’s lead sponsor of terrorism would feel emboldened to become more aggressive in the region and flex its military muscle.”

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