Obama's Ransom Payment

Floor Speech

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Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last month The Augusta Chronicle, August 4, exposed ``The Obama administration . . . has now apparently been caught shipping $400 million in foreign currency to Tehran--coincidentally at the same time the mullahs released four Americans they'd held hostage.

``Wouldn't you tend to call that `ransom'?''

The Wall Street Journal reports: ``The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran . . . Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane . . . Iranian press reports have quoted Iranian defense officials describing the cash as a ransom payment.''

Iran still chants ``death to America, death to Israel'' with new financing.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

Our sympathy to the family of Phyllis Schlafly, an American patriot who made a difference for limited government and expanded freedom.

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