9/11

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 .

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

interesting twist. I got it in an email. I had heard the Ollie stuff before but not the other.
That goes to show that the pen is mightier than the sword.

The snopes stuff is also verified in other sources, but I still don't trust the Liberal sources at Snopes. I remember they got called out last year for adding a biased lean to their answers.

On top of that, Snopes is just a man and his wife sitting at a desktop PC. They get their information from the internet just like most everyone else. For the longest time everyone thought of them as being a huge team of researchers and investigators, but there wasn't any such massive team.

Yes, it is just a 2 person team....but that's the power of the internet. They have proven to be highly reliable. The problem with these chain mail type e-mails is that some weak minded people will believe anything they read. Present company excluded, of course . They read Bill Clinton did so and so back in '89 and find it humorous, pass it on to a few people, and a few years later they "know" such and such happened. They forget where they learned it from.