[Hoot Gibson]

I must be missing something. In light of the past 10 years of political soap opera, since when do 'the facts' really mean anything? And you are directing the bolded comment to who? The President, Rush Limbaugh, or possibly one of the many commentators out there taking the same stand as the President on this matter? As I have said lately, if stating the truth still cut any ice in this country, there are ample enough sage and seasoned purveyors of said truth out there EVERYDAY, sufficient to get the message in front of every concerned set of eyes this nation has. Not the least of whom would be Mark Levin. On the Iran Deal, 2015---- [SIZE="3"]"A conga-line of Democrats, one after another, supports this surrender," roared Mark Levin. "It is clear the Democrats no longer represent the party of Truman and Kennedy."

"It is now the Democrat party of Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, and Barack Obama. The Democrat Party will have blood on its hands as a result of this deal for the rest of time. This deal sows the seeds of war."

"And (to) the Republicans. You see some of that scaffolding over there? They should take some of it and use it on their damn spines."[/SIZE]

As noted, this quote is from all the way back in 2015, but the truth of it is so beyond question that it's logic survives unscathed to this day. No, but revisionist libs can still lie their way around the granite face of any truth out there. And the argument presently being made by the President, and to which I alluded is no exception to the rule.

But maybe you could point to the trust in which the Iranian funds were laid back, and which were supposedly 'owed' to the Mullahs? To say tax dollars were used to bribe the Mullahs is a very fair statement to make. In fact, the argument you just made is straight off the lips of rabid libs who supported the actions of Obama. Past that, it just so happens that I remember watching Iran implode, and saw the Shah of Iran fall to the Islamic extremists who've managed to survive to this day. Killing, or having a part of killing, many innocent Americans along the way. Pacification, in any form, does not work. We cannot buy off our enemies. Oh they'll take the plane loads of cash until we run of money and or the jet fuel to carry it to them. But at some point down the road the specter of our willingness to use our considerable military might must lie in wait. It's that or our complete surrender, in the which case murder and mayhem still lies in wait. The simple truth of history is this, cowards are humiliated, pillaged and then ground into the earth.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton for the most part, and Barack Obama all showed the same lack of courage where it came to facing down Iran. Meanwhile George H, George W, and D J Trump had chin enough to face them down. So outside of the later three Presidents mentioned, for our cowardice in the face of confrontation, look at the damage done and the level of Middle Eastern destabilization. Not to mention the flood stage surge of blood and treasure that had to be reinvested over there and the 911 attack on our own soil. An enemy that was over time, encouraged to oppose the US after we had already paid the necessary price to secure victory in WW2. Spineless libs and RINO's are to thank, as Mark Levin said in concise terms.

But the point is they have and are growing stronger and stronger. Sworn enemies of ours who chant "Death to America" on a national holiday, and soon to be in possession of a nuclear arsenal. And yet we stand around with the spit dripping off our chins. While the US Congress argues incessantly over the issues of special interests and open borders, their military progress continues. We have data which shows that for those close enough to the detonation of a nuclear bomb, those people's flesh literally vaporizes from off their bones, before those bones can even begin to fall. Strangely enough, this same data is born out in the Bible. Zechariah 14:12 (KJV)
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Of course, this passage has to do specifically with the present enemies of Israel. And yet it is further validation that despite the words of the imminent Barack Obama, large scale war is coming. Even large scale nuclear war, the likelihood of which ironically having been exacerbated by his own rationalizations. Any way you slice it, the US sent 150 billion plus, to a sworn enemy with a burning desire to see the US and Israel on history's ash heap. LOL, thought just a touch more hyperbole might be in order.

The money should have never been released as long as Iran remained a state sponsor of terror governed by terrorists. That is the truth of the matter. I don't see how Trump gained anything by trying to support the facts of the matter with a foundation of lies.

As for Rush, he used to be a steadfast conservative who was very entertaining and politically incorrect. That Rush ceased to exist long ago. Now he is a Republican above all else and he plays it too safe with his humor, IMO. I used to love his parodies of the Clinton crime family but he's no longer willing to risk his job to for laughs.