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Old 05-14-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bimmertl
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My response was directed to the definitive, and absurd, statement that Ollie North mentioned Bin Laden in his senate testimony in 1987 and that was a specific "FACT" which should be checked out. That was the extent of it.
Sorry if it seems like I went off the deep end - Not a good day yesterday (lousy excuse, but the best I got).

We always seem to be trying to rewrite history and argue it, never recognizing sometimes (I'm guilty of this!) that all history will be slanted by the author. I think the line used to be "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist," and no better example of this is comparing American and British accounts of the Revolution in the American Colonies. All personal interpretations of sight, sound and smell bring some objectivity and a bunch of subjective analysis.

I hope the finger-pointing starts to subside, and what follows are desires for the future of our country and all of its people. It would be cool if those desires also weigh the potential downstream effects. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction is a truism - Newton's Third Law of Motion. Ignoring Newton's truism is always a very expensive oversight.