interesting reading not sure how true

[fv432]

Do  you remember  1987.......

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  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 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. 

[oz]

stupidness at its very best, having said that we are no better we turn IRA terrorists into members of parliment..........
                      oz.

[fv432]

very true oz 

does make you wonder about the world though

[BREL]

I remember the Ollie North hearing being shown on the news at the time

[Crispy]

Yep, its about as sensible as granting the only surviving terrorist from the Iranian embassy siege the right to stay in Britian and the tax payers paying for his new identy... Nice to know all that income tax I pay isnt being wasted on the NHS and education, education & education >:(

[oz]

don't forget crispy you or shall i say we, are also paying for duck ponds cleaning moats a second house TV,s DVDs,s holidays free transport an a lot more for our poor mp,s. god love em they need the help..................NOT >:( >:( >:(

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

If you guys think you have problems with corrupt/idiot politicians back home, take a look at this...

ABC News Reports On John Murtha's Pork Laden Airport

[Crispy]

What makes me laugh about this whole expenses thing is that apparently the Daily Telegraph and the rest of the media didn’t realise "a lot" of politicians are lying, money grabbing, back stabbing, weasly, B######Ds who are more than happy to screw the tax payers for every penny they can get! I knew that before I could vote. Didn’t these people watch Spitting Image?

Didn’t someone say wanting to be a politician should immediately seclude you from the selection process? If only we could come up with some system that removed the power from politicians and made it a compulsory task you could be called on to do, so the job was generally deemed to be a pain in the R's... a bit like jury service. Couldn’t be any worse that we have now.

ANYWAY – too much politics and not enough tanks!

[oz]

what really makes my blood boil is for years our military has had to get by using outdated illsuited and inferior equipment while this bunch of thieving scumbags line their pockets, how many lives have been lost because of these money grabbing BA&@?RD mp,s........... >:( >:( >:(

[BREL]

the newspapers Print the TRUTH with the wool taped firmly down over the editors eyes