You just paid your debt...
THE HORDE WILL ENDURE
THE HORDE IS STRONG!
Christ....A strawman occurs when I claim to refute an individuals argument, but all I've actually done is attack and refute an argument that was not put forward by said individual.
What I'm doing in this instance is attempting to draw a comparison between two separate situations.
It's not a strawman. Learn the proper usage please.
It seems like a perfectly valid comparison. Republicans open nine investigation when four Americans are killed in Benghazi. Republicans (at least some of them at present time), accuse the President of paying a ransom by rescuing four American prisoners held in Iran. The resemblance of four Americans in each situation is what I find striking.
Eat yo vegetables
It wasnt in US dollars because its against US law to transfer US dollars to Iran (also in the article but the OP left it out).
Thats what makes this all the more shady. So we supposedly owe Iran money and dont pay for 30 years, and just so happens we pay it while negotiating the release of prisoners. Nope, doesnt sound shady at all to the democratsOriginally Posted by WSJ
You're equating people that willingly entered a country on their own to those assigned duty in a foreign county with the presumed backing of the US Government? There is no comparison to these. One group is on their own, the other is an arm of the US Government and should be provided any and all necessary aid since it was their government that put them in that position.
So, we owed them money, and we paid them that money in cash to grease the wheels of those soldier's release?
I so don't fucking care.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
ce: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
Full Definition of straw man
1
: a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted
2
: a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable transaction
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Pretty much your BS argument from the start, I hope you learned something today. It is no way comparable, only a fool would think comparing a hostage situation to a non hostage situation is the same. I understand you are just trying to save face, but just stop.
It's illegal to send Iran U.S. dollars.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sent...eed-1470181874
The $400 million was paid in foreign currency because any transaction with Iran in U.S. dollars is illegal under U.S. law.
So they are paying debt, and also gets some prisoners with that deal? Seems pretty good?
The folks who went to Benghazi got dicked over, no doubt about it. They should have never been there, because mixing a diplomatic mission with a clandestine CIA operation was a terrible call to make. It's a perfect representation of our government's bureaucracy, and how it fails the "little guys."
Pathetic.
As expected from the current adminstration.
Since the article was going for click bait misleading title they should have went with $1.7 billion dollar bribe to Iran.