This Email is going around again

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

I received this email again and I remember seeing it debunked somewhere. I thought that it might have been snopes but, I can't seem to find it there. Any help out there?

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Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of
information.......... *
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 ans! wered.

"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. 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! *
*
Also: **

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.**
&nb! sp; **
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 should be made aware of this
fact, **pass
this on.**

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[Mz Pip]

1. Totally bogus

Snopes debunks it.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Walt Starr]

2. Reply to All, with DEBUNKED in the subject

and give 'em this link:

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

and tha Atta lie is debunked here:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/atta.htm

[robbedvoter]

Funny, it wasn't on MY RADIO when I heard the full hearings

[PretzelWarrior]

3. here ya go. SNOPES

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

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

4. Thanks all!

I just couldn't find it on there! It will be replied to all!

[movonne]

5. Why would I want to read this crap...If I wanted to hear stuff like this

I would listen to Limpballs....

[blm]

6. HAHAH....Republicans so stupid they don't even know it was Abu Nidal and

at that very same time the Bush family was making deals with the Bin Laden family through the terrorist banking network of BCCI.

Shortly after North's testimony, Bush2 was selling his Harken stock to Salem Bin Laden as facilitated by James Bath, his drug buddy from the Texas National Guard.

And it was SENATOR JOHN KERRY who was working to expose the terrorist banking network, while OLLIE NORTH was shredding evidence of their covert dealings with terrorists and their funders.

DUMBASS FREEPER EMAILS. They wouldn't know the truth if you read them the congressional record and showed them the documents.

[Ksec]

7. Propaganda is critical to the Reichts agenda

Its hard to change the minds of the people who read this stuff. Ive tried with little success. What can ya do when they buy this stuff? Carry around a laptop and pop up the video or proof of BS? "sigh"

It is really tough to fight the constant barrage of propaganda put out by a well financed reicht wing media and other assorted freeper types.

[frylock]

8. do what i do when this bs email comes down the chute..

and reply to all with Col. David Hackworth's lambasting of ollie entitled "Drugstore Marine":

LET ME TRY to describe Oliver North in a few fast bursts. He's a jackass. He is so preposterous that there is a temptation to laugh at him. He's smarmy, a flatter, a brownnoser. He's also a twisted impostor, a drugstore Marine with an apparent compulsion to bullshit just about all the time. But while he tries to fool people with his fantasies, he is also very easy to fool. He boasts that he was an can-do guy when he was in the White House, but the record spells no-can-do. North did terible damage to the U.S. until he was caught. One thread runs through his performance--getting conned. The Iranians conned him, the contras conned him, the crooked arms dealers conned him and even Manuel Antonio Noriega conned him.

North is also one of the most dangerous men in America today. I've talked with him only once, by telephone on Michael Jackson's radio talk show on KABC in Los Angeles. I had done my homework and wasn't surprised when North put on his usual act. By the time I debated him I had talked with dozens of Marines and soldiers who knew him, as well as with former National security Coucil staff colleagues. I had seen him on countless TV shows, had read about him in several books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. "Does Oliver North Tell the Truth?" was the title of a June 1993 investigation in Reader's Digest. The writer, Rachel Wildavsky, presents a watertight case, providing names and dates and plenty of reasons why the answer to the headline is no. My own sources confirmed or amplified what Wildavsky reports: North "could not be believed--even under oath." One of his former colleagues is quoted as saying North "had trouble distinguishing between what was true and what he wished to be true."

In almost 50 years of being around soldiers, I have bumped into my fair share of bullshitters, but Ollie would have to take the first-place ribbon. His record shows that he is totally untrustworthy.

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[Ksec]

10. yeah but..but...he has his own armyguy show on Faux?

"salute"....

great post frylock. Ill use this

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Not only is it debunked but it's absurd. In 1987, OBL was Reagan's guy.

[formercia]

11. We were supplying arms to OBL through the Pakistanis

It was the Pakistanis who chose the most Wahabi elements in the Afghan Resistance to support. We couldn't do anything without going through the ISI and they always got their fat cut before the Afghans got a thing. I worked on some of those stupid operations and all Ollie did was get a bunch of gomers killed for nothing.

When Bill Clinton cruise missled Osama's training camp, the ISI went bullshit because a bunch of their people were killed. They were killed because they were there training OBL's people just like they have been for the last 25 years. If you want to know who trained the hijackers in their terrorist tradecraft, you have to look no further than the Pakistani ISI.