One of the first things the really made me politically aware of anything were the Iran-Contra hearings, and I still know a lot about what happened. So I was pretty surprised to learn that Ollie North had the audacity to appear on TV and disparage Barack Obama for Obama's supposed willingness to have diplomatic talks with Iran.
According to North, we shouldn't deal with terrorists at all, including talking to them, because that amounts to the same kind of appeasement Europe granted Hitler prior to World War II.
Hard to say where to begin with this. I mean, first of all, OLLIE FUCKING NORTH?!? This is the guy who sold weapons to Iran when they were our enemy by proxy in the Iran-Iraq war that was going on in the 1980's. This was back when Saddam Hussein was our buddy, in case you didn't know. He did this to illegally fund the Contra faction in Nicaragua because the Bush administration thought it wanted to get rid of the Ortega and his Sandinista faction, because they were socialists or something and so obviously they were going to let Russia put nuclear warheads there like in Cuba. Or something like that.
At any rate, to hear Ollie North criticize someone for having any kind of dealings with Iran ... that just blows the audacity meter right out. These guys just lie and bullshit with impunity, and they are praised as heroes by the ConservaBorg trolls of the world. It's truly amazing.
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