Ollie North: Heroes Return

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Heroes Return
By convicted felon Oliver North | October 31, 2009

In what has turned out to be the bloodiest month of the war in Afghanistan, there is a growing chorus of critics who claim that the fight is no longer worth the cost. Though most of those saying so aren't paying the price, the toll was evident at Dover Air Force Base early Thursday morning as twenty one flag-draped, gun-metal transfer cases were solemnly conveyed from the ramp of a USAF C-17.

Ten of those aboard -- seven U.S. Army soldiers, and three Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration were killed on Monday night October 26, when their helicopter crashed during an extract from a successful raid mission in northwestern Badgis Province. For the first time since he has been commander in chief, Mr. Obama was there to greet the grieving families. He was accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder and DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart. It was the right thing to do.

Last month our Fox News team was embedded with this same unit as they conducted similar operations. Special Agents Forrest Leamon, Chad Michael and Michael Weston are the first DEA personnel to be killed in Afghanistan since the war began. They, and the U.S. military Special Operations Command unit with them, were all part of a major effort to reduce funding available to the Taliban from illegal narcotics.

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan. Heroin and morphine base are the country's major export commodity. Since being driven from power in Kabul in 2001, the Taliban have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from the opium trade by taxing farmers, protecting laboratories and shipments and delivering precursor chemicals for refining the raw product. The vast amount of money derived from opium production not only fuels the insurgency, but rampant corruption at every level of government in Afghanistan.

To break this nexus of drugs, violence and vice, the DEA presence in Afghanistan has been increased more than five-fold in the past year. Today, the DEA has more than 80 Special Agents and hundreds of intelligence specialists, translators, contract trainers and support personnel on the ground. Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support TEAMs -- FAST -- supplemented by other in-country Agents, U.S. Special Operations Command units and Afghan Commandos -- carry out direct action strikes against known high value targets (HVTs) dozens of times each month. Nearly all of these missions are carried out at night -- with all U.S. and allied personnel involved wearing night vision devices.


Rest of article by this treasonous rat-bastard at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,204958,00.html?wh=news

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1. Heelarious

Oliver North has been implicated in several international cocaine distribution and gun-running enterprises. And...Hamid Karzai's brother is a huge heroin dealer. I am no fan of the Taliban, but I am skeptical of everything I read these days concerning exactly who is doing business in narcotics. The CIA has a long track record running dope. Oliver North is a sociopath and should have been imprisoned along with Reagan, Poppy Bush, and all the other rat bastards who fucked with Nicaragua in the early '80's.

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2. Yup..Ollie is a nut case....a real GOPiac....