Author Topic: important read! (Read 358 times)

rc51 · « **on:** March 19, 2003, 10:29:17 PM »

Remember This?

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.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third
degree,
but what he said was stunning!

He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend
close
to
$60,000 for a home security system?"

Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."

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.

"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."

"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.

"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.

"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"

"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.

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. Is this the same Guy who couldn't spell Potato. Then the senator continued. Why are you so
afraid of
this man?" the senator asked.

"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know
of", Ollie
answered.

"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.

"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."

The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that
was
shown of the clip.

By the way, that senator was Al Gore

rc51 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:34:45 PM »

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."

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.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the 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.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.

If you agree that the American public must be made aware of
this fact,
pass this on.

Martlet · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:37:38 PM »

Different guy

Rasker · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:40:30 PM »

yeah thats a well known hoax floating around the internet rc, also refers in part to Bin Ladin

rpm · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:41:06 PM »

Bogus...

rc51 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:46:40 PM »

Not really i have olie on vhs at iran contra hearings saying just that!

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2003, 11:42:37 PM »

A DIRECT quote, from Col. Oliver North USMC retired, refutes the Osama Bin Laden part of that story. The terrorist in question was NOT, repeat, NOT Osama Bin Laden, but rather ABU NIDAL, who was recently found dead in an apartment in Baghdad Iraq, reportedly a suicide according to Iraq, however, Nidal had multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

Oliver North said that he was not afraid of Abu Nidal, and in fact welcomed the opportunity to meet Nidal any where at any time. However, North said that he refused to allow Nidal to meet Mrs. North and the rest of the North family under any circumstances, and that was in fact what Nidal had said he (Nidal) would do (kill the family of Oliver North).

I both heard and saw Oliver North himself say the above on more than one occasion.

The Bin Laden version makes great Internet hoopla, but is false nonetheless. The hearings in question occured before Osama Bin Laden was even a marginal player in the world of terrorism.

Further, North was being "grilled", and not "drilled", by a senator. And it would be the Vice President under George Herbert Walker Bush, one Daniel Quayle, who spelled potato by an old English version of the spelling, potatoe.

Remember, ACPOTI, Anyone Can Post On The Internet. Evidence of that is easily found around here.

Sandman · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2003, 11:50:47 PM »

Go check Snopes. It's all there.

Martlet · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2003, 11:56:01 PM »

BUT WAIT, HE HAS A VHS TAPE, IT MUST BE TRUE!

oh the humanity.....