Tell Ollie North to shut up, then, because of course you know better than his take on it, on Hannity.
I trust Ollie.
Ollie wants to see all the facts. Ollie is also sophistcated enough like Steel to consider appearances. He DID go through Iran Contra after and even took shots from Nancy Reagan.
What is that supposed to mean?
I wasn't critisizing Ollie North--I love the guy. I was relaying what he said, and I agree with him. This is going to be made the story of Fallujah.
That was his point, that the Marines, though terrific professionals, know that you will be excoriated by the press over something like this.
I just think that he and I would agree that this could have been handled responsibly and correctly without making this Marine the face of the "big bad Marines that execute defensless insurgents". Like I said in a former post, if the guy would have had a grenade, and saved the lives of all of the people in the mosque, nothing would have been said. I'm sure he wouldn't have gotten a Silver Star.