Decades after the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Iran, the Americans taken hostage in that incident are finally receiving compensation, but not from the people who victimized them.
Tacked onto the already-impossibly expensive omnibus spending bill, the “United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism” fund assures that all 52 survivors of the embassy attack will be compensated for their misfortune. The thing is, the ones doing the compensating are us!
Yes, the government really decided that after Iran took 52 Americans hostage and held for them over a year, the American taxpayer should be the one paying out $4.4 million to each hostage instead of making the government that facilitated their being taken hostage cough up the cash. This is to say nothing of the $600,000 guaranteed to the families of each former hostage.
Make no mistake: the hostages deserve financial compensation, but it should be the guilty party that provides it.
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Not ours.
Why not?
True! We now ask our selves just when and how are we to compensate the Iraqi people for what we did to them destroying and killing so many of their people! Two wrongs never make a right! May God forgive us and guide us and guide us to make better choices and thank you for wise decisions made by the likes of President Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama/ Let there be Peace, sanctions. love not War! Happy New Year!
Retard it is Iran not Iraqi and I didn’t do a dam thing to them why don’t you sell your home and give their people all your wealth since your so liberal.
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It’ a wonder that Obama isn’t making the survivors pay Iran back for the cost of holding them.
So true!!! They are doing it a little at a time so that people will not notice it happening .. I can not even get my sons to see what is happening to this country, So sad 🙁
Germans said it could not happen when only 7% were$#%&!@* The rest is history! America is on its last leg in Denial from the liberal Communist Democrats! Be prepared very soon!
Not ours
Not for the 300 Million Legal American Citizens.
Sick