Anyone remember Oliver North? Originally Posted by dearhunterDo you mean the Oliver North who sold WEAPONS to the IRANIANS?, of all people, to raise money for the administrations own little private war? They actually helped arm the fundamentalist mullahs of IRAN? As Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North appeared on television and wrapped himself in the American flag defending his amateurish policy, I wondered if my ears indeed did not fail me. In my opinion, the elevation of a relatively low-ranking and feeble-minded military official into a position of responsibility in the National Security Council is as striking an indictment as one will find of the Reagan Presidency. North is one of those military officers who you want to charge a machine gun emplacement on a hill, not the kind you want making or implementing important policy decisions. Clearly there were other parties above him, but North is the perfect embodiment of the knuckleheaded-ness that was the Reagan Administration, in my opinion.