Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.
Posted on 05/01/2008 1:42:41 PM PDT by jazusamo
Washington, D.C. —
Fresno, CA – In the U.S. military there is a wonderful little expression: “A good plan never survives the first contact with the enemy.” The corollary to this rule is “Expect the unexpected.” Then of course, there is the expanded version of the Boy Scout motto: “Be Prepared – For Anything.” This week has served to remind me how apt these quaint little expressions really are.
My plan for this week was very simple: conduct a series of quiet interviews for print and broadcast media and a few low-key appearances in preparation for the release of my new book, “American Heroes – In the Fight Against Radical Islam.” Broadman & Holman, my publisher, and FOX News, my employer, had put together a “launch plan” that ensured we would promote the book first on FOX News and that I would then go on a relatively brief tour, signing books near military bases. Since the book is about the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines I have covered in Afghanistan, Iraq, in the Persian Gulf and the Philippines, it all seemed very uncomplicated. Then, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright intervened.
For reasons known only to the Reverend Wright, he chose this week to drag me into the mess he has made of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. During a surreal appearance on Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Reverend Wright said that his congregation, of which Senator Obama is a member, had “stood in solidarity with the peasants in El Salvador and Nicaragua while our government, through Ollie North and the Iran-Contra scandal, was supporting the Contras, who were killing the peasants and the Miskito Indians in these two countries.”
When Reverend Wright made this stunningly inaccurate comment, I was blissfully unaware...
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Good for Ollie North for asking!
Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.
Amen, Colonel. Amen!
Ollie is right on the money — as usual. He is a great American and it is a dam’n shame he isn’t running for President.
Semper Fi Col. North......
Thanks for the ping Jaz.
Thanks Col. North for all you do.
Yet, when I ask my fellow members of the Fourth Estate if they even know the name of anyone serving in the uniform of our country, the answer is almost invariably, “No.”
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A question that we should use whenever the subject of our military actions overseas are brought up in a critical or confrontational manner.
You bet, RQSR and there’s no one that supports our military more than Col. North.
Exactly! It is the people that are least familiar with our military that are most critical and confrontational of them and their actions.
You know, you are exactly right. Ollie North is the guy I really want for President - none of the others even come close...
Let me think, Obama, sHillary Rodham, McCain or Col. North at 03:00 AM? Not very difficult.
Ollie’s for McCain big time.
I plan to ask it.
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