|
Something we should all remember as we go to the Future
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!
A senator was drilling him; “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. 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.
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. |
