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[dbergh]

October 21, 2024 | Policy Brief
Biden Administration Admits Iran’s Oil Exports Have Grown Exponentially in Value and Volume

exports have increased in value and volume. The report found that between 2021 and 2023, Tehran sold $144 billion of petroleum and petroleum products. This contrasts sharply with the “Maximum Pressure” period, during which Iran’s oil exports declined to just $16 billion in 2020. The trend has been both broad and consistent. Crude oil and condensate exports more than tripled between 2020 and 2023 to more than 1.59 million barrels per day. Iranian petroleum product exports increased more than 50 percent over the same period.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/10/21/biden-administration-admits-irans-oil-exports-have-grown-exponentially-in-value-and-volume/


Nov 30, 2023 — Leader Scalise slammed President Biden for making $6 billion available to Iran despite their known sponsorship of terrorist groups like Hamas.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=3f48a25a88a0a09a&q=Biden+paid+Iran+to+fund+the+Terrorist&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRg_iSt7KJAxUuv4kEHYt4IfMQBSgAegQIChAB&biw=1212&bih=502&dpr=1.35


Nov 15, 2023 — The Biden administration on November 14 extended a sanctions waiver to allow Iran to access upwards of $10 billion in electricity revenue once held in escrow ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Biden+frozen+assets+to+Iran&sca_esv=3f48a25a88a0a09a&biw=1212&bih=502&ei=MTkgZ87bCIOmptQP0Mez8QE&ved=0ahUKEwiOuLiFt7KJAxUDk4kEHdDjLB4Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Biden+frozen+assets+to+Iran&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiG0JpZGVuIGZyb3plbiBhc3NldHMgdG8gSXJhbkjhPFAAWIEwcAF4AJABAJgBjQGgAcICqgEDMi4xuAEDyAEA-AEB-AECmAIDoAL7AcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICDhAAGIAEGJECGLEDGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAg0QABiABBixAxhDGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQOYAwCSBwMyLjGgB6wS&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Shock and awe > >We Are Paying For Another TWO WARS

Oh F My Mouth is Wide Open and Flys are flying in and Out

[fuagf]

The source read ok, an Iraqi guy and it's fair to look at a more complete picture of all people in all government situations. More than one quote, i mean. Like i said we ourselves have never been put in a situation as she was. Was it Pelosi who said she made a mistake in voting for tBush's invasion? This is good enough on that, lol with a little 2004 tax mention bonus:

Pelosi calls Iraq war a ‘grotesque mistake’

Sept. 26, 2004, 1:18 AM GMT+10 / Source: The Associated Press

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called the war in Iraq a “grotesque mistake” that has not made the United States safer.

Giving her party’s weekly radio address, the California congresswoman said President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq has siphoned resources and attention away from the broader war on terror and the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

“We would be much safer today if President Bush had kept his focus on al-Qaida, rather than diverting crucial resources from the war on terror in Afghanistan to a war of choice in Iraq,” she said, echoing recent comments by Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

“This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not made America safer,” she said.

On the same note, Kerry said Friday that Bush’s policies have “let Osama bin Laden slip away.”

Bush calls Iraq the front line in the war on terror and in his re-election campaign has cast himself as the more steady leader who would keep the country safer.

Elsewhere in her broadcast, Pelosi criticized congressional Republicans who have shown support for a new national sales tax, which she said would hurt the middle class.

“Wealthy corporate interests would get a windfall, and the middle class would get the bill,” she said.

Bush has said that in a second term he would work to simplify the federal income tax, and he and other Republicans insist it is Kerry who would increase Americans’ taxes.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., called for a national sales tax or consumption-based tax in a recent book. But Bush’s suggestion this summer that a national sales tax is worth serious consideration drew a backlash from Democrats and many Republicans, and the idea was quickly discarded.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6095868

And - Pelosi Wins on House War Vote
By Josephine Hearn and John Bresnahan
03/23/2007 10:01 PM EDT
After weeks of wrangling, cajoling and arm twisting, Speaker Nancy Pelosi emerged victorious Friday
from her first major battle on the House floor, succeeding in narrowly passing a $124 billion wartime
spending bill that set a deadline next summer to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
https://www.politico.com/story/2007/03/pelosi-wins-on-house-war-vote-003274

I don't know if Albright ever expressed any regret about that fiasco. But that doesn't take away at all from the worth and gravity of her warning on fascism:

...watch and listen to Madeleine again:

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175295159

"Still makes my blood boil," Chris Doyle ..

Madeleine Albright on 500,000 dead Iraqi children - saying it was worth it. Still makes my blood boil https://t.co/7E0dCK8BYz

— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) March 23, 2022

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the director of the Council for Arab British Understanding (Caabu), tweeted about Albright's answer.
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193

Again the source? We know Newsweek has shifted right but so what. Even if the number of children killed was
not as high as he said, still too many civilians including children died in that war which should never have been.