Heard about him in Killer Mike’s Reagan song. Great song
Oliver North, a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel, played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair, a major political scandal during the Reagan administration. He was involved in the sale of weapons to Iran, with the profits being diverted to support the Contras in Nicaragua, despite a congressional ban on funding the Contras.
Related to nothing but Ollie, I rode an elevator with him and some police in the US courthouse in DC during his trial
I was just a bike messenger at the time
What does “opportunistic shitheel with a side of bacon” smell like?
That I don’t remembers, but he was shorter and smaller than I expected
I hope that’s the American Dad school house rock. The kids popping as he says landmines is a good stealth joke.
Ha, came here for this and was not disappointed.
Those who do US crimes get airtime; those who expose them get canceled.
Those white and rich who do US crimes get airtime
You don’t have to be rich or white, you only have to be useful in furthering US state propaganda. Condi Rice is still gets plenty of airtime.
You don’t have to be rich
Proceeds to name multi-millionaire.
I was naming a non-white person. Also, people who carry water for US imperialism tend to be well compensated. You don’t have to be rich to do it, but you will likely get rich by doing it.
Context makes it look like you’re trying to name someone that isn’t “rich or white.”
RIce wasn’t born with a silver spoon. She’s rich now from her lifetime of work in the interests of US empire.
Does she? I havent heard that name in what feels like a decade
Maybe because you don’t watch mainstream media anymore. I don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIIBQ%253D%253D&search_query=condi+riceYou are correct i do not watch any mainstraim media or news. Everything has to come to me filtered through friends, family, or lemmy.
What do we think the payscale is for an occasional drop-in talking head interview? How much is ollie getting for spouting his ghoulish nonsense?
Giving this traitor a television platform instead of a prison cell, was one giant step in making Republicans feel untouchable, no matter how poorly they behaved. Even treason is excused, and rewarded.
“He has experience so we can trust him!”
-Fox News viewers
He wants Iran to not have missiles because then Iran will buy his missiles
Just another bucket of slime sloshing whichever way gets him a seat at the table.
I’m hardly surprised - just seems like a US thing. I mean, who else would leave it up to Trump of all people to decide whether the Epstein files should be made public?
Do they put anyone on screen for ratings?
Well Fox News has been, since inception, the propaganda arm of the GOP. So not only will they do anything to get and keep eyeballs, they have a deficit of ethics and ethical contributors. So if they need to spray paint a shit log and call it a gold nugget then that’s what they’re gonna keep on doing.
well, you can’t argue that he hasn’t learnt his lesson.
You really think he wouldn’t sell them missiles again if he thought he would get away with it?
Hear me out, theoretically this is actually cool?
Like, theoretically, take away the Fox propaganda and shameless lack of disclosure. Picture this guy presenting himself as a CI, like a convicted hacker, former cartel, defector or something. He has real experience with Iran, missiles, the whole Contra affair. He knows what they’d do with them, how they get them, what the buyers are like because he shamelessly sold them.
That’d be a cool perspective.
It’s of course not reality, but still.
Theoretically sure. But the regime he sold it to go toppled like three times over. So it’s not the same people anymore and the context he could provide is out of date and … checks notes still based on his treasonous actions.
I’m sure as hell not defending him, but your point is valid and why him being against them having missiles isn’t necessarily a contradiction. “Them” isn’t the same them that he sold to. Again, not defending him and I haven’t listen to anything he’s said recently to know his stance (nor do I really care to), but just keeping my own logic in check.
No. The current constitution is what they got after the revolution in 1979. Khomeini was supreme leader until 1989. Khamenei somehow got himself appointed to successor just in time. The successor he replaced was against mass executions and stuff. Funny how it goes.
For similar reason I enjoyed the Sam Bent episode on Darknet Diaries.
