You would think this convicted Felon would at least Name the series he so detests. I would like to know so I can see if he is, once again, totally wrong or just mostly wrong? It's the same thing with him. Over and over again, he makes a point in the 1st paragraph of his "columns", and then finds someone we should all fear or hate or both, and he rails against THEM for the rest of his worthless diatribes. A writer's trick that most good writers use once or twice, and then never again. Ollie, the convicted felon? He knows no other way.

Oh wait, he IS wrong about one thing... Our government "subsidizes" Public Broadcasting to the tune of about 10% of a PART of it's operating expenses, and most of that is locally controlled and funded, not supplied from the Congress! So to call it "subsidized", (as if it were a demon because of less than $.25 per federal-taxpayer) is disingenuous - at best. That's right, Twenty Five Cents. is all any of us pay to HELP keep them broadcasting, nationwide and beyond, or less than $20 Million per year. Wow. We spend that much killing people and getting killed in IRAQ Ollie, about every 10 MINUTES?

http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,171137,00.html

So once again, the Felon Ollie North would try to demonize the Care Bears if he thought it would help him make another ridiculous claim on paper, backed up by ... oh yeah, no evidence whatsoever... not even the NAME of the show!


Just like ALL "Cons".

Enough, Mr. North. Using Independence Day to take pot shots at PBS? Petty, at best. BTW... did you read Studs Terkel's The Good War? Or Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five? It seems according to the folks who actually fought WW2 there was a dark side to the victory. Using Independence Day for your politics? I guess that's the dark side of Mr. North.
And as to your comments about proxy wars... where or when on God's Green Earth did PBS ever refer to the Cold War as a "proxy conflict?" Some context, please. If PBS said that to mean proxies were used by the superpowers, that's cold, hard fact. [Does the expression "Better there than here" sound familiar?] Then to make the grossly illogical jump to McCain be viewed as a "proxy POW" is laughable. Utter sophistry. Now, would anybody care to talk about Valley Forge? Crossing the Delaware? Founders? Rejecting monarchy? And... oh, yes... that Declaration thing?

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It is always so refreshing to read comments by people who don't have a clue about the subject or the back ground to make the comments.Weather Guesser has some Navy time but Bruce Foster --- "Army brat all his life" and thats where he draws his information. Mr.North is a true American Hero,you two just can't get over it.Bruce,go back to your music and beer, you are in the know in that area.

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Originally posted by 16639234:
It is always so refreshing to read comments by people who don't have a clue about the subject or the back ground to make the comments.Weather Guesser has some Navy time but Bruce Foster --- "Army brat all his life" and thats where he draws his information. Mr.North is a true American Hero,you two just can't get over it.Bruce,go back to your music and beer, you are in the know in that area.

True American heroes are not convicted felons. And his 'hero' status is for selling arms to Iran and selling drugs to the American people.

Maybe oli North can ask the iranians to return the weapons he sold them. That might solve the current problems with Iran.

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Originally posted by 16639234:
It is always so refreshing to read comments by people who don't have a clue about the subject or the back ground to make the comments.Weather Guesser has some Navy time but Bruce Foster --- "Army brat all his life" and thats where he draws his information. Mr.North is a true American Hero,you two just can't get over it.Bruce,go back to your music and beer, you are in the know in that area.

I hear you Major, isn't it sad that military.com are so full of trolls????

Classic argument of a neoconist, with their inane comments such as "trolls" and kindergarten school logic that non-military are know nothings, yet Cheney never once served in the military, nor did the hysteria magnate, Sen Lieberman.

So these one-line wonders in this forum berate the critics without offering a substantive response, and why is that? Simple, because either the facts at issue are consistently not on their side or they do not possess the intellect to marshall a cogent point, or both.

Humor yourselves sometimes and read the ghostwritten articles of North's for they are consistently wrong in every sense of the word, but entertaining as funded propaganda of the poorest caliber. But such is the norm amongst these Rendon-like groups puffing up this dying nut job agenda. As taxpayers we should demand that they at least obtain a better ghostwriter chiefly of the non-pedantic kind.

As the ghostwriter in this rambling enigmatic piece, like a large paintbrush consisting of "PBS Bad" states:

"They go not for gold or colonial conquest or "ethnic cleansing" – but to offer others the hope of freedom – the kind we celebrate on Independence Day."

What a culturally ignorant and arrogant statement. Do ya think the Iraqis want American style of anything? So far their government consists of officials elected off a slate of appointees that they the public did not select. Ask yourselves this do ya think we are in Iraq because Saddam was a threat or because of oil? Sportsfans it's oil. For we readily realized that Saddam did not have WMDs, Saddam is dead, mission accomplished, etc, yet we stayed.

Because we certainly are now all about offering and facilitating no bid oil contracts to the modern robber barons of Chevron, Shell, et al. We simply got tired of trying to let the Iraqis decide what to do, we let oil men make contracts with the Kurds, who cares about keeping Iraq united when there are oil contracts to be had.

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Originally posted by LouieSuzara:

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Originally posted by 16639234:
It is always so refreshing to read comments by people who don't have a clue about the subject or the back ground to make the comments.Weather Guesser has some Navy time but Bruce Foster --- "Army brat all his life" and thats where he draws his information. Mr.North is a true American Hero,you two just can't get over it.Bruce,go back to your music and beer, you are in the know in that area.

I hear you Major, isn't it sad that military.com are so full of trolls????

Hello Louie,

I hope you've been well.
I'll agree with you on your points since the "Trolls" seem to only take up space.
The "Neosocialists" will always take up space and breathe the air that would be better spent blowing though the orifice in my rear-end.
They don't look at the career of such a fine American Hero, they like to try and point out mistakes that have been made. I'm sure those people have never made a mistake.
Those of us who have been on the receiving of incoming fire and have washed the blood of the enemy from our hands, will always grant the combat Veteran greater respect and admiration than any civilian or non-com could possibly understand.
Maybe somewhere in their minds, they feel they fell short.
You would think that a "military man" would know the difference between major combat operations and insurgency. The war with Iraq has been over for some time. The war for Iraq is ongoing.
But I don't guess they will ever see that first hand. That was their choice, and maybe where they fell short.

R,

-CPL

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Originally posted by thorin001:

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Originally posted by 16639234:
It is always so refreshing to read comments by people who don't have a clue about the subject or the back ground to make the comments.Weather Guesser has some Navy time but Bruce Foster --- "Army brat all his life" and thats where he draws his information. Mr.North is a true American Hero,you two just can't get over it.Bruce,go back to your music and beer, you are in the know in that area.

True American heroes are not convicted felons. And his 'hero' status is for selling arms to Iran and selling drugs to the American people.

I've posted some information before about the "felon".
The charge was dropped and thus, no felony.
The hero status in most American's minds isn't for selling drugs to the American people.
Can you elaborate a little more on that part of your post?


R,

-CPL

folks you know i let you all have a lot of slack..but the man was not convicted was he...so knock off the name calling and stay on topic

Roger that.