'Worst Person in the World Award' goes to Oliver North
Video here: http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/your-moment-of-keith.html
Oliver North, Fox News’ Appeasing & Emboldening Revisionistorian
After lauding Oliver North for his new book that apparently has more
pictures than it does pages (No doubt North’s picture-book tells a much
different story than the truth-laid-bare photos and accounts from an
award-winning unembedded photojournalist like Dahr Jamail, but I
digress), Sean Hannity asks North for his opinion on whether the
President was right to compare the want to hold diplomatic talks with
Iran to the appeasement of Nazis in the 1930’s.
VIDEO AT LINK:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/19/oliver-north-fox-news-appeasing-emboldening-revisionistorian/
Oliver North: As you know, I’m the history guy at Fox News Channel,
right? I’ve done this WWII series – 52 of our episodes about WWII. Had
it not been for Chamberlain going to sit down with Adolf Hitler and try
to cut a deal in Munich, WWII might never have happened, but it
emboldened the dictator. That’s what the President said yesterday in
Jerusalem. And a little reminder today, a shot across the bow here at
the NRA, when John McCain got up and said, ‘You cannot have these kinds
of unconditional, no preconditions discussions, with despots and
dictators’ - dead on the mark.
For someone who was lucky not to have spent the better part of the last
two decades making license plates, he’s got some nerve touching this
topic. This is the guy who oversaw the arms for hostages deal with Iran
in 1985 (among other crimes), right in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war
in which the US was actively and openly arming and sup****ting Saddam
Hussein. Ollie North didn’t just talk with Iran at a time they were our
enemy in a proxy-war, he actually helped to arm them, bypassing Congress
by violating the Boland Amendment to help fund an illegal war in
Nicaragua.
Lacking even a shred of credibility, Fox News’ “history guy” is to the
truth in the historical record what Dick Cheney is to gun safety. He
shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the subject, and anyone who believes
a word of what he says about it is a fool.
Negotiation is not appeasement and there are zero parallels between
simply opening up a diplomatic dialogue with Iran and the capitulation
to Adolf Hitler in the Munich Agreement. It’s a ridiculous assertion,
especially considering that the Bush administration itself has
negotiated with Libya and North Korea, yet Iran’s previous offers to put
everything, including its nuclear program, on the table and peacefully
negotiate have been completely ignored even after Iran had been an
im****tant ally of the coalition against al Qaeda and the Taliban in
Afghanistan.
Oliver North, just like John McCain and other conservatives, don’t even
have a clue what they are talking about. Apparently no one in this
administration ever thought to ask Bush’s own Sec. of Defense, [Neville
Chamberlain] Robert Gates, for his opinion:
We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage with respect
to the Iranians and then sit down and talk with them. If there’s going
to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can’t go to a
discussion and be completely the demander with them not feeling that
they need anything from us.
Exactly.
All links here:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/19/oliver-north-fox-news-appeasing-emboldening-revisionistorian/
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