Barack Obama actually said...

The one thing that we have held to is a policy of not paying ransoms with an organization like ISIL.

President Obama explains the U.S. policy against paying ransoms to ISIS to avoid incentivizing future kidnappings.

02/09/2015

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We all have a common enemy, and that is ISIL.

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