whether or not we owed the money and whether or not we would pay it had nothing to do with the prisonersthe 'true believers' as you call them are the ones pretending two thingsyou really have a tough time understanding that we owed iran that money and they were getting it, eventually, whether they released the prisoners or notNo. Letting the prisoners go was OUR condition. We were holding Iran's money hostage, idiot.
so Iran traded hostages for money then, instead of us trading money for hostages? Wow, that is soooo different. LOL.
however you want to see it, moron, the administration traded the money for the people. It was a clear condition of this deal, which they have now admitted, after initially completely denying, so you can basically shut the fuck up or keep making yourself look like a fool, it doesn't really matter to me.
Bull-oney.
You people have a tough time understanding that by making the cash a bargaining chip they made it part of the deal.
How that is not self-evident to someone who is such a sharpie that they are calling out others for their obtuseness I dunno, but I do know I find that pretty funny.
Then they lied about it, of course. They wouldn't have had to if one of two things had been true:
1. They hadn't made it part of the deal, as they claimed.
2. It didn't matter so there was nothing to conceal.
And now, of course, it doesn't matter to the true believers, who are busy spinning, spinning, spinning.
1) that paying a debt arbitrated at the hague is ransom
2) that using the debt payment as leverage for the return of our citizens is somehow bad
1 - Sure if it had nothing to do with the release of the hostages, except, yeah, it did, despite the lies initially told by the administration.
2- Utterly irrelevant. Good, bad, up, down. Just irrelevant.