Wrong Again
by Oliver North
WASHINGTON — It took the Obama administration eight days to figure out whether Iranians being gunned down for protesting a fraudulent election and demanding basic civil liberties deserved to be acknowledged by the president of the United States. It took the O-Team less than eight hours to side with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega over the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.
As we now have come to expect, Mr. Obama got it wrong again, bu ...
( Back to Article )
Join the Discussion
|
4 Comments | Post Comment
|
Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Fri Jul 3, 2009 8:12 AM
Sir;...It does not matter who is in charge in South America so long as they will buy our products... We have totally lost Iran as a market...We used to trade food for oil until Iranian farmers could no longer support themselves, and they flooded the cities and turned the tide of revolution.... Now they are gone, and no matter who wins there the victory will not be ours....We can still have some markets in South America, especially for the machines and materials of war; but we do not wish to deliberatly give them the idea that we are behind their coups... The problem is, that though we side with the dispossessed; few of them believe us because we have so long had our fingers on the scales of their affairs... Mr. Obama is desparate for markets...He cannot afford to alienate anyone... He cannot really afford to see the South America dissolve into war or civil war...If worst comes to worst, we will charge them for the arms we send against them, and force them to pay, as in Iraq, for rebuilding the destruction we have caused...But that is not our best or only product...You abuse Mr. Obama for denying what to them seems so obvious...You must know this yourself, considering the criminal part you have played in history...If I were you, I would try to get the whole picture, and see it from their perspective...Thanks...Sweeney
|
Posted by: Pericles
Comment: #2
Mon Jul 6, 2009 8:04 AM
Mr. North has a history of selling arms to Iran and lying a lot. Nobody should trust Mr. North on these or other matters.
Mr. North also has a history of supporting terrorism in Nicaragua...He supported the Contra's who went in for the systematic rape, torture, and murder of innocent civilians. Anyone who trusts Mr. North needs their head examined.
|
Posted by: Pericles
Comment: #3
Tue Jul 7, 2009 2:27 PM
Re: A Simmons You said: "Bottom line, we do not have oil therefore the U.S. is siding with the oil providing nations"
We don't seem to have much choice about siding with oil producing nations. Mr. Bush spent a lot of time hugging and kissing some of the worst human rights violators on the the planet because we need their oil. Prince Bandar had access to the White House and was given secret information about our military plans in Iraq because we need oil.
You'll agree that, going by your standards, Mr. Bush got it far more wrong than Obama with respect to human rights violations?.......Surely you don't think that Chavez is worse than the Saudi Royal family with respect to human rights?
|
Posted by: A Simmons
Comment: #4
Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:04 AM
Though not a supporter of Mr North in the past, his article about Honduras describes the situation with precise objectivity. Honduras is a poor country, but a proud country who is willing to go hungry for the next 6 - 7 months until the new elected president takes the oath of office, rather than succumb to a leftist regime. Bottom line, we do not have oil therefore the U.S. is siding with the oil providing nations, no matter how much Mr. Chavez insults the US democracy and its presidents directly, he will remain important because of oil. You are right Mr. North, Mr. O has got it wrong and so has CNN
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
- 
- 
- 
