Absolutely - the worst messenger for this line of attack.

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/767039858409893888

[Wounded Bear]

1. I hate that fucking weasel...

Ollie-boy should be in jail. For-fucking-ever. He's a traitor, and is sickens me that he was a Marine.

[lastlib]

7. That is highly insulting to the whole Mustelidae family!

Weasels are noble animals compared to that traitorous pond-scum shit-stain.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I will concede your point...

but only defense of innocent animals. North is still a rat bastard. No offense intended to rats.

[RapSoDee]

2. Figures the Republicans would trot out yet another quisling traitor to America

Is Ollie also making nicey nice with Comrade Pooty Poot these days? Would not surprise...Republicans have shown time and again that they have no moral compass, honor or integrity. Just BLUSTER up the wazoo.

[struggle4progress]

3. North Estimated Each Hostage Was Worth 550 TOW Missiles (LA Times | 27 February 1987)

WASHINGTON — White House aide Oliver L. North figured the price of an American hostage in Lebanon to be 550 TOW anti-tank missiles and 8 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles, worth about $5.7 million, says a memorandum disclosed Thursday by the Tower Commission.

On Dec. 4, 1985, North .. proposed a deal with Iran under which the United States would sell 3,300 TOWs and 50 Hawk missiles to the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in exchange for the release of five Americans and one Frenchman held by pro-Iranian terrorists.

The scheme makes it clear that specific amounts of weaponry were to be exchanged for an agreed-on number of hostages ...

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-27/news/mn-4049_1_tow-missiles

[struggle4progress]

4. IRAN-CONTRA REPORT: How a Secret Foreign Policy Unraveled (NYT | 19 November 1987)

... 1985 ... August: The President approves the shipment of arms by Israel to Iran, according to his initial statement to the Tower Commission. Later he says ''I don't remember'' when asked about approving the shipment. Aug. 20: Israel sends 96 TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran. Sept. 14: Israel sends 408 more TOW missiles to Iran ... Nov. 24-25: The C.I.A. arranges for a shipment of 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles from Israel to Iran aboard a C.I.A. front company plane. Iran rejects the missiles within days after test firing one of them and finding that they do not meet Iran's requirements. Later, some of the American officials involved in arranging the flight said they thought the plane carried oil-drilling parts, not weapons ... Dec. 6: Colonel North tells Israeli Defense Ministry officials that he plans to use profits from future arms sales to support the contras ... 1986 Jan. 17: President Reagan signs an order authorizing arms shipments to Iran in an effort to both improve relations with officials in Iran thought to be moderates and to bring about the release of the hostages. This order authorizes the C.I.A. to assist ''third parties'' as well as friendly foreign countries in shipping weapons. Feb. 17: The United States sends 500 TOW missiles to Israel, from American stocks, for shipment to Iran. No hostages are freed. Feb. 27: Another shipment of 500 TOW missiles are sent to Israel, once again for shipment to Iran. Again no hostages are freed. April 4: In a memorandum, Colonel North outlines a plan to have $12 million in profits from the Iran arms sales diverted to the contras ... May 25: Mr. McFarlane, Colonel North and other American officials fly to Teheran, carrying with them spare parts for Iran's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. They spend four days meeting with Iranian officials in trying to win the release of all the American hostages. They are unsuccessful ... Aug. 4: The United States sends Iran a shipment of spare parts for Hawk anti-aircraft missiles ... Nov. 25: Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d announces the diversion of money from the Iran arms sales to the contras ... 1987 ... July 7: Colonel North begins six days of testimony before the Congressional committees ... He .. says that William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence during the Iran-contra period, was aware and approved of the diversion and that the arms sales were originally intended as an exchange for the hostages ...

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/19/world/iran-contra-report-arms-hostages-contras-secret-foreign-policy-unraveled.html

[struggle4progress]

5. February 2, 1987: Reagan Gives Incoherent Testimony to Tower Commission

President Reagan testifies for a second time to the Tower Commission ... His testimony is incoherent and confused ... Commission investigators note that while the Meese investigation claimed Reagan did not know of the August 1985 shipment of missiles to Iran .. Reagan himself claimed in his previous testimony he did know of the shipments. When asked to clarify the inconsistency, Reagan shocks onlookers by picking up a briefing memo he had been given and reading aloud, “If the question comes up at the Tower Board meeting, you might want to say that you were surprised” ...

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?irancontraaffair_key_figures=irancontraaffair_edwin_meese&timeline=irancontraaffair

[struggle4progress]

6. THE IRAN-CONTRA REPORT: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

... in the summer of 1985, the Government of Israel proposed that missiles be sold to Iran in return for the release of seven American hostages held in Lebanon and the prospect of improved relations with Iran. The Secretaries of State and Defense repeatedly opposed such sales to a Government designated by the United States as a supporter of international terrorism ...

Nevertheless, in the summer of 1985 the President authorized Israel to proceed with the sales ... The President did not sign a finding for this covert operation, nor did he notify the Congress.

Israel shipped 504 TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran in August and September 1985 ... The President persisted. In November, he authorized Israel to ship 80 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles in return for all the hostages, with a promise of prompt replenishment by the United States, and 40 more Hawks to be sent directly by the United States to Iran. Eighteen Hawk missiles were actually shipped from Israel in November 1985, but no hostages were released.

In early December 1985, the President signed a retroactive finding purporting to authorize the November Hawk transaction. That finding contained no reference to improved relations with Iran. It was a straight arms-for-hostages finding. National security adviser Poindexter destroyed this finding a year later because, he testified, its disclosure would have been politically embarrassing to the President.

... The Enterprise received a $1 million advance from the Israelis ... Since only 18 missiles were shipped, the Enterprise was left with more than $800,000 in spare cash. North directed the Enterprise to retain the money and spend it for the contras ...

On December 7, 1985, the President and his top advisers met again to discuss the arms sales. Secretaries Shultz and Weinberger objected vigorously once more ...

The President decided to go forward with the arms sales to get the hostages back ... When the C.I.A.'s General Counsel pointed out that authorizing Israel to sell its U.S.-manufactured weapons to Iran might violate the Arms Export Control Act, the President, on the legal advice of the Attorney General, decided to authorize direct shipments of the missiles to Iran by the United States ...

Although North had become skeptical that the sales would lead to the release of all the hostages or a new relationship with Iran, he believed that the prospect of generating funds for the contras was ''an attractive incentive'' for continuing the arms sales. No matter how many promises the Iranians failed to keep throughout this secret initiative, the arms sales continued to generate funds for the Enterprise, and North and his superior, Poindexter, were consistent advocates for their continuation ...

In February 1986, the United States, acting through the Enterprise, sold 1,000 TOW's to the Iranians. The U.S. also provided the Iranians with military intelligence about Iraq. All of the remaining American hostages were supposed to be released upon Iran's receipt of the first 500 TOW's. None was ... The difference between what the Enterprise paid the United States for the missiles and what it received from Iran was more than $6 million. North directed part of this profit for the contras ...

In May 1986, the President again tried to sell weapons to get the hostages back. This time, the President agreed to ship parts for Hawk missiles but only on condition that all the American hostages in Lebanon be released first. A mission headed by Robert McFarlane, the former national security adviser, traveled to Teheran ... When the mission arrived, McFarlane learned that the Iranians claimed they had never promised to do anything more than try to obtain the hostages' release. The trip ended amid misunderstanding and failure, although the first installment of Hawk parts was delivered.

The Enterprise was paid, however, for all of the Hawk parts, and realized more than an $8 million profit, part of which was applied, at North's direction, to the contras ...

... Hakim produced a remarkable nine-point plan ... Under the plan, the United States agreed not only to sell the Iranians 500 more TOW's, but Secord and Hakim promised to develop a plan to induce the Kuwaiti Government to release the Daawa prisoners ... The plan to obtain the release of the Daawa prisoners did not succeed, but the TOW missiles were sold for use by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/PS157/assignment%20files%20public/congressional%20report%20key%20sections.htm

[lastlib]

9. Great info. Reagan and his minions clearly committed treason.