Junk Mail

Someone recently sent me an email, one of those "Pass this on" type of things. Not a chain letter, but a "true story". Here's the email...

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news
video
of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during
the
Reagan Administration.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree,
but
what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator: "Did
you not
recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"

Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience,
"Isn't
that just a little excessive?"

"No, sir," continued Ollie.

"No? And why not?" the senator asked.

"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."

"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.

"By a terrorist, sir," Ollie answered.

"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir," Ollie replied.


At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't
pronounce
it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people
laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. "Why are you so
afraid
of this man?" the senator asked.

"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie
answered.


"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.

"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team
be
formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this, and that is all that was shown of the
clip.
By the way, that senator was AL GORE!





ALSO: Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986.
The
Israelis captured, tried, and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo
agreement
with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called
"political prisoners."

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands.
The
American president at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of
State,
Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released!



Thus, Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the United States
by
flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was
reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the
terrorists
were first identified. It was censored in the US from all later
reports.


If you agree that the American public need be reminded of this fact,
pass
this on.

I enjoy receiveing jokes and cute pictures, things like that are always good for a smile. However, I hate receiving things like this, especially when they are blatant lies. I always check Snopes when I get these things, to see if it's really as "true" as it claims to be. Well, neither antecdote here is accurate. Snopes story 1, Snopes story 2. Written by a Liberal/Democrat hater, the stories are simply trying to put the blame on the Clinton administration for the 9/11 attacks. It works because people often don't bother to check the crap they receive, as they say "Ignorance is vliss". So, regardless of political affiliation, check out these emails before passing them on to everyone in your address book.