Please Remember

[steamyromance]

This should be studied in our schools.....how soon we forget;
> Do You Remember 1987.......
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> I had forgotten all of this. Do you remember when the senators were giving Ollie North such a bad time? This brings it all into perspective doesn't it? Have a great day.
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> Do you remember 1987.......
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> Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information.........
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> It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were
> playing an old news video of
> Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
> hearings during the Reagan
> Administration.
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> There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the
> third degree, but what he said was stunning!
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> He was being drilled by a
> senator, 'Did you not recently spend close to
> $60,000 for a home security system?'
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> Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'
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> The senator
> continued, trying to get a laugh out of the
> audience, 'Isn't that just a little excessive?'
> 'No, sir,' continued Ollie.
> 'No? And why not?' the
> senator asked.
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> 'Because the lives of my family and I were
> threatened, sir.'
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> 'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned..
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> 'By a Muslim terrorist, sir' Ollie answered.
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> 'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'
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> 'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied.
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> At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
> but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
> probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
> Then the senator continued.. Why are you so
> afraid of this man?' the senator asked.
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> 'Because, sir, he is the most
> evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered, and the Muslims are trying to take over America and destroy it from the inside out and putting their people into our political offices.
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> 'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator..
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> 'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an
> assassin team be formed to
> eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'
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> The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that
> was shown of the clip.
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> By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
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> Also:
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> Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in
> Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and
> imprisoned him. As part of the
> Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
> Israel had to agree to release
> so-called 'political prisoners.'
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> However, the Israelis would not release
> any with blood on their hands. The American
> President at the time, Bill Clinton,
> and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
> 'insisted' that all prisoners be
> released.
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> Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked
> us by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center
> This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time
> that the terrorists were first identified.
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> It was censored in the US from all later reports.
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> If you agree that the American public should be made
> aware of this fact, pass this on.
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> Do Not Break - it is 8 years strong.
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> This has not been broken since 9/11/01,
> please keep it going...
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> This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of
> all those who perished this morning; the
> passengers and the pilots on the
> United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World
> Trade Center and the
> Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders..
> Our prayers go out to the friends and
> families of the deceased.

[LovingKayla]

That is freaking awesome. I had no idea!!

Just think of all the lives that would have been saved if we'd listen to the voice of a right winger.

[TheDaliLama]

Everything in this account is true EXCEPT......

It was NOT OBL!!!!!!!

It was Abu Nidal.

[JD Barleycorn]

Have to agree with the Dali Lama. This never happened and the terrorist was Abu Nidal who we found dead in Iraq when we invaded. Seems he was there getting medical treatment. So I guess Saddam was supporting terrorists.

[markroxny]

That's funny coming from good old Ollie since we help create that monster:

In mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan, the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known as Afghan Arabs. The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Osama bin Laden, known at the time as a wealthy and pious Saudi who provided his own money and helped raise millions from other wealthy Gulf Arabs.
As the war neared its end, bin Laden organized the al-Qaeda organization to carry on armed jihad in other venues, primarily against the United States — the country that had helped fund the mujahideen against the Soviets.
A number of commentators have described Al-Qaeda attacks as blowback or an unintended consequence of American aid to the mujahideen.

[CJ7]

please remember you can find anything on the internet, and its ALL true!

snick

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by markroxny

That's funny coming from good old Ollie since we help create that monster:

Operation Cyclone was created during Carter's Administration. The Carter administration set up a train-the-trainer school in Virginia to train folks to go back home and train the Afghans in the training camps we helped set up there.

I've never heard of North's involvement, but not saying it wasn't so.

I was surprised when it appeared "we" latter did not know where the training camps were located when "missile lobbing" was the fashionable law enforcement response to terrorism.

[JD Barleycorn]

Reagan didn't become president until 1981.

[Submodo]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

Everything in this account is true EXCEPT......

It was NOT OBL!!!!!!!

It was Abu Nidal.

Ssssshhhhhhhhh... they got a little "gotcha" cookin, don't mess it up with the facts.

[TheDaliLama]

Originally Posted by Submodo

Ssssshhhhhhhhh... they got a little "gotcha" cookin, don't mess it up with the facts.

The story doesn't change just because the names are different. Abu Nidal was just as much as a bad guy as OBL.

OBL was just a overachiever.

[TexTushHog]

You people will believe anything. Did you hear that they took the word "gullible" out of the dictionary?

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/north.asp