Surely everybody understands the legal word game being played! Right?

Was it ransom?
NO!

Did the payment need to be made before the prisoners would be released?
YES!

But that was an old debt just paid..........that has been kicking around for 30 years.......


Either pay the debt or no prisoner release!!
If one is gullible, or stupid, or a member of the media or an Obama suckster or a radical dem.........you buy it.

The rest of the world including Iran calls it ransom.

It is not ransom for Obama the same way Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman!