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Well I don't know about those slanderous distortions, but the allegations against Romney are bound to come out in the Presidential primary campaign. The Librul Media will be all over them, eh?

Romney sold millions in investments to avoid conflict, trustee says
The source for these quotes is an article from CNN.com.

Until I questioned this article it was accepted and believed. But my statement that it contained lies was questioned right away. Why are articles that are critical of Republicans automatically accepted? Yet a statement that the article is wrong has to be proved?

OK why are you quoting an article with facts which are not in the original article?

To prove that the facts in the original article are not true.

Senator I think you have jumped to a conclusion that is unwarranted. When I read the original article quoted by Tat it seemed to be documented but then I read your statement disputing those "facts." I asked you for support because a mere statement that something is wrong, etc., seemed to me to need support, just as the original article purported to support its claims.

I don't see that as an example of what you call "Why are articles that are critical of Republicans automatically accepted? Yet a statement that the article is wrong has to be proved? "

What you have done has proved nothing, so I guess I'll do some homework for you.

So let's start chronologically with an article linked in Tatuma's article, then proceed with Tat's article and move on to a more recent article.

February 22, 2007 Company's links to Iran undercut Romney's call for divestment

From this source we have the following


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All of which was quoted in Tat's article. But what's important is the timeline of employment and the facts Romney turned all investment over to a blind trust (not known when yet but there's more)and what that blind trust invested in and what his former employer did.

Thus we know Romney did not work for Bain after 1999. Romney put all investments in blind trust at some point. And Bain and subsidiaries invested in companies which had dealings with Iran.

Now from previously sited (Tat's)source (Romney, Cheney in Deep with Iran Investments) dated February 26, 2007, just a few days after first article.

We have "But as it turns out, it is Mitt Romney's former employer with the ties to Tehran."

The author of the article goes on to a wholesale quote from the previous article which I have included above. So is the statement above false in any way? Nope, Romney's former employer according to first article did indeed have ties with companies doing business in Iran. Stay with me now.

Can we get any corroboration of any of these facts? A trustee says we can. In an article dated 8/13/2007 we learn of the following information.



So now we know who, Malt from Ropes & Gray, guided the blind trusts and when (2003) this particular one started.


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[I included Schlumberger as it is known at least one subsidiary had done business in Iran, Iraq, and Libya after embargoes.]

Thus we now know based on statements made by trustee of Romney's blind trust that the investment company did indeed make investments in companies which did business in Iran. We only know when those assets were sold not when they were bought. We do know that Bain & Co had connections with Iran in 2004 and 2005 based on above articles.

I have only dealt with the Romney part of the article as that is what you objected to. The statement of fact from Tat's source was Romney's former employer had ties to Iran. That statement in and of itself is true and Bain & Co admits it.

So which fact is a lie?

Maybe I missed something. What in the article have you shown to be wrong?

Did you read the CNN article? The facts in the CNN article refute what was in the original article. An article that is purposely ambiguous in an attempt create guilt by association.

I am struggling to figure the meanderings of this thread out. Am I right to conclude that prior to turning his assets over to a blind trust that later sold assets in conflict with his public positions, that Romney in fact bought those assets himself?