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Ashwin Dixit Mar 4

@draken
Please forgive Col. North. He has "no recollection" of his past life. 😂

Ashwin Dixit Mar 4

Seriously though, people change their minds.
Some even have a change of heart.
You can't hold Lt. Col. Oliver North to what he once did.
Maybe prison time changed his views.

@purrperl
He didn't do any prison time.

Ashwin Dixit Mar 4

Damn! Arrested and convicted, but not imprisoned?
Did he claim he was Princess Anastasia? 😆

catflyhigh Mar 4

@purrperl
according to the wiki
"He was initially convicted on three felony charges, but the convictions were vacated and reversed and all charges against him dismissed in 1991, on the grounds of immunity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North

Oliver North - Wikipedia

@catflyhigh @purrperl
Yeah, because the dickhead in the White House at the time was pardoning everyone else involved in Iran-Contra.

@draken @catflyhigh @purrperl

MyView Mar 5

And proves Trumpism is not new ...

I have never ever seen any country learn by their 'mistakes' ... and none will as long as the money grubbing Plutoligarchs have the loudest voices ...

el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦Mar 5

@catflyhigh @purrperl @draken
The following orders defence

catflyhigh Mar 5

@elCelio
Much simpler: A snitch!
He was granted limited immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before Congress about the scheme.

Don't you guys read the wiki I linked? 😁

@purrperl @draken

Third spruce tree on the left Mar 5

@purrperl @draken If I recall, the missiles to Iran were part of a shell game to hide money funneled to the contras in Nicaragua =s part of a CIA regime change no?
So he did the thing at the behest of the Reagan admin really..

Third spruce tree on the left Mar 5

@purrperl @draken I'm hazy, I was 12 at the time.

Daniel M. Reck Mar 5

@tezoatlipoca @purrperl @draken We're all missing the point. The true scandal is not that he appeared on Fox playing a "military analyst" but that he didn't get an Emmy for his appearance as an "intelligence officer" on NBC in the first season of JAG. https://www.deseret.com/1995/8/30/19190244/scandal-hits-north-again-this-time-in-tv-drama/

SCANDAL HITS NORTH AGAIN - THIS TIME IN TV DRAMA

Oliver North is embroiled in scandal again - this time on television. North, who retired from the Marine Corps after the Reagan-era arms-for-hostages scandal, will play a retired military intelligence operative during a cameo appearance on ``JAG,'' a new NBC drama.

Deseret News

Axiomatically Mar 5

@tezoatlipoca @purrperl @draken correct

@tezoatlipoca @purrperl @draken

yunchtime Mar 5

yes. Reagan and the CIA not only ran the October Surprise (to prevent the hostage release that Carter negotiated), but funded death squads in Central America. check out Gary Webb's reporting (Dark Alliance) and Oliver Stone's movie "Salvador" for some background.

Dreaming of dad jazz.Mar 6

@draken @purrperl

and I am still mad about it.

Alex o_O Mar 4

@draken Isn't it great that they found a specialist to comment on the situation? 🥁

obscurestar Mar 4

@draken Come on now. He didn't JUST sell missiles to Iran. They were using the profits from those missiles to buy drugs from a ruthless south american dictator to help prop up his fascist regime, then dumping those drugs on the streets of liberal US cities as a means of attacking the civil rights movement and re-enslaving PoC via the 'War on Drugs'.

I mean geez. You think the Republicans would have run him for senate if he was MERELY a hypocrite and not a full on piece of garbage?

@obscurestar
And, like garbage, they recycled that waste of life.

sOlOw-NH Mar 4

His compass is broken

@solownh
It was never calibrated to begin with.

Lord Tom Klopf of CZ

Mar 4

@draken damn he’s still around. Is he getting rehabilitated by maga?

Uncle Slacky Mar 4

@thomas_klopf @draken I just looked up Fawn Hall to see what happened to her - turns out she married Ollie last year! https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/09/politics/oliver-north-fawn-hall-iran-contra-marry

Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal

Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration.

CNN

Lord Tom Klopf of CZ

Mar 4

@uncleslacky @draken I love these come-backs

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf
Well ain't that something.

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf @draken

Levka Mar 4

banana . . . something . . . subway . . . something, something . . .

Dr. Kamella Tate Mar 5

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf @draken
lordy did not know that

Michael Ormsby Mar 4

@draken “Fox news” + “analyst” is the ultimate oxymoron.

@michaelormsby
Well yes but that's beside the point.

Zimmie Mar 5

@michaelormsby @draken Not necessarily. Think of it like this: an illusionist works with illusions, so an analyst works with “information” they pulled out of … well, it’s right in the first four letters.

Faraiwe Mar 4

@draken "Coherence" is not very high on the list of values for MAGAts...

@faraiwe
Bold of you to assume MAGA has any values...

Faraiwe Mar 4

@draken they DO, it's just that they are entirely perverted, twisted and beyond the ken of decent humans.

They VALUE the ability to commit abuse, above all else, for instance.

Γιανίρης Mar 4

He also sold drugs to finance covert operations and mercenaries to destabilize the #Sandinista government in #Nicaragua ... I am sure now he is supporting the invasion of #Equador

I am surprised the piece of shit is still alive and not in jail ...

@iriyan
We all saw the American Dad clip, and I saw the Ollie North Coloring Book back in grade school.

kit Mar 4

@draken way back when presidents still thought they needed a fall guy, because someone might otherwise put limits on them

Morten Juhl-Johansen Mar 4

@draken well, he was pro and contra

@mjj
Well played. Well played, indeed.

Stacey Campbell Mar 4

@draken Ollie North is still alive? Bloody hell.

@stacey_campbell
It seems Beltway insiders aligned with evil live to be very old.

Uncle Slacky Mar 4

@stacey_campbell @draken Only the good die young.

Les Mar 4

@draken I was waiting for a flight a few years ago and Ollie happened to be on the same flight... listened to him go on and on with an ad hoc bunch of admirers... What a self-congratulating blow hard!

Ilka 🌐Mar 4

@yamabikko @draken he is the USamerican posterboy, just missing rape & child abuse and he could have become president: "Charges & Verdict: Indicted on 16 counts, North was found guilty on three: aiding and abetting the obstruction of a Congressional inquiry, destroying National Security Council (NSC) documents, and accepting an illegal gratuity (a security system for his home). He was acquitted on other charges, including the diversion of funds for personal use."

@Ilka4You @yamabikko
That is an interesting question. Could North be in the Epstein files, too?

Ilka 🌐Mar 5

@draken he might not be rich & influential enough. His boss might be? But then again, Murdoch is one of the most clever ppl on earth, if anyone is able to evade documentation, it would be him. @yamabikko

David Mar 4

@draken if you want more info on this guy, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a 5-part collab with Hood politics about the “crack epidemic” in the US, which delves into the Iran-Contra thing, and covers Oliver North quite a bit!

Start here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000581347329

Cracktoberfest Part One: Constructing the Crack "Epidemic"

Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 3 October 2022 · 1h 17m

Apple Podcasts

luca Mar 4

@draken Everybody can make little mistakes... twice.

Levka Mar 4

@luc0x61 @draken

"Mistakes were made."

Hot Dog Water Mar 4

His whole life amounts to being a used ziploc baggie.
DeadReagan would be proud you still carry other people's runny shit without spilling a drop, Ollie.

Ilka 🌐Mar 4

@draken lol at least he knows what he is talking about. 👹
USamericans keep recycling their felons.

Softspeak Mar 4

@draken
The Reagan years were cray-cray, but not as much as these few recent years.

derptron Mar 4

@softspeak @draken They were pretty fucking nuts. Had a president liked to joke around that he'd launched the nukes. Constantly starting shit with Libia and trying to with USSR.

I used to dream all the time that I was dying in nuclear fire with the adults around me sayng shit like, "Oh well, guess it's time to kiss our asses goodbye," and then starting to do so as the world went orange and heated up.