The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

[catflyhigh@troet.cafe]

@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

@draken

[draken@masto.nyc]

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

[vanalope@timeloop.cafe]

@draken lookit that..... he's aged into becoming a Bush!

[bflipp@vmst.io]

@draken

Ease up on Ollie he was just trying to get his membership in the Christmas Adventurers Club.

[sollat@masto.ai]

@draken
Brings back memories of wishing adults would just please stop listening to those hearings. On the radio. On TV. Endless.

[pcambra@drupal.community]

@draken https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV1uT-ihDo

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@draken He did that in the same decade that the USA sold Iraq chemical weapons to use against Iran and the Kurds. Amazingly, just a few years later we tried to find the weapons of mass destruction we sold them and came up empty. Meanwhile, millions of Iraqi and Iranians died.

[ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social]

@draken

Disgusting to see that he is on TV at all even if it is Fox "news" (they've hired so many terrible people)

Link for those too young to remember Iran-Contra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

#History #Iran #USPol

[schnedan@social.tchncs.de]

@draken They have missiles! I know it, I sold em...

[uncleslacky@federate.social]

@stacey_campbell @draken Only the good die young.

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@draken FFS Vanilla MAGA 🤮

[uncleslacky@federate.social]

@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

[thomas_klopf@dobbs.town]

@uncleslacky @draken I love these come-backs

[rainer@friendica.sokoll.com]

@draken This asshole used the earnings made with the Iran deal to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

[elronxenu@mastodon.cloud]

@draken Can't sell Iran missiles if they already have them amirite?

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@draken This traitor has been a hero to Republicans everywhere for almost as long as I was remotely aware of the world. Got to watch it happen on live TV.

Same sad puppy dog eyes, I see.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@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.

[draken@masto.nyc]

@rainer
We've all seen the American Dad clip, and I've seen the Ollie North Coloring Book.

[draken@masto.nyc]

@uncleslacky @thomas_klopf
Well ain't that something.

[draken@masto.nyc]

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