Ollie North: Leaks and Lies

[unhappycamper]

Leaks and Lies
By convicted felon Oliver North | June 21, 2010

For two months the Obama administration has been skirting the truth about its inept response to the April 20 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, fire and the world's largest crude oil spill. The O-Team claims it has been on top of this problem since Day One. Reality shows both the leaks and lies continue.

On June 15, Mr. Obama, master and commander of the Tele-Prompter, tried using his first address from the Oval Office to convince the American people that his team was doing all that could be done in handling "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced." It was, even his supporters agree, a failure.

It's not that the president and his speechwriters didn't try. He attempted to emote. He tried to express his anger at BP's "recklessness." Having previously likened the Gulf catastrophe to the terror attack of 9-11-01, he referred to "our brave men and women in uniform." He even described his plan for dealing with millions of gallons of petroleum spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as a "battle we're waging," and said the oil is "assaulting our shores and our citizens." He then went on to lay out his "battle plan."

By the end of Mr. Obama's blessedly brief remarks, it was apparent the only new resources he's committing to "fight" this "epidemic" -- his words, not mine -- are lawyers and "the deployment of over 17,000 National Guard members along the coast." He went on to "urge the governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible." The contrast between the number of uniformed personnel being sent to the Gulf Coast states and the paltry 1,200 dispatched to help protect our southern border from a tidal wave of violence was inescapable.

So too is the evidence of political opportunism, egregious error and outright fabrication in what the O-Team claims to have done -- and what it plans to do -- in responding to the catastrophe. The very fact that Mr. Obama devoted nearly a third of his Oval Office remarks to advancing his Cap-and-Trade energy plan is proof that the administration still lives by Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel's maxim: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."



unhappycamper comment: STFU Ollie.

[Jamastiene]

1. I can't stand Ollie North.

:puke:

[Scuba]

2. Why isn't he in Levenworth?

[Scuba]

3. Why isn't he in Levenworth?

[Xipe Totec]

4. Look who's talking

:rofl:

[jaxx]

5. Once a f'n bastard, always a f'n bastard.

Shut up Ollie.

[zipplewrath]

6. The man's outta jail

because the very constitution he ignored and used for toilet paper, protected him anyway, not to mention a favorite bogey man of the right, the ACLU.

How that man gets a job says ALOT about what the right wing actually thinks of the Constitution.

[spanone]

7. hey ollie, still in the iran/contra loop you fucking traitor?

[AnArmyVeteran]

8. As guest host on Limbaugh's show, North said he'd do nothing to stop Clinton's assassination

When guest hosting on Rush Limblah's radio show in 1995, Oliver North said the following: "If I knew of any harm that would come to the president I would do nothing to stop it". These are the words from someone who likes to tout himself as being a Marine. It's obvious North forgot the oath he took to preserve and protect the US from any enemies. He was telling his audience full of people, probably with guns in their hands, that he would do nothing if he knew of any plot to kill the president. He would allow it to happen.

I reported North's traitorous comments to the FBI and Secret Service but nothing was seemingly done. I suppose if the attorney general under Clinton acted against North it would have energized even more right wing lunatics to try to kill the president or blow up another building as Timothy McVeigh did. But you can bet if it was a liberal who made that statement when Bush was the pretend president he would have been arrested and put in jail.

North is a liar, felon and traitor...