Say you have a bacterial infection. The doctors prescribe you antibiotics, with the stern warning that you are to take all of them. Don't stop as soon as you're feeling better! Why is this?
Well, it's because when you take the first few doses, you kill off a great number of the bacteria that are making you sick. You might even feel a lot better. But there are a certain resistant percentage of bacteria that will stay alive in your body .... multiplying .... regrouping .... and if they manage to stage a resurgence, they can really put you down hard. Sometimes they can even kill you.
The United States' own little bacterium, Oliver North, is back in his old stomping grounds. Nicaragua. The Bible says a criminal retuurns to the scene of his crime the way a dog returns to his vomit.
Ollie North is one such piece of slime who wasn't dealt with properly the first time around.
Oliver North's mugshot
Oliver North back in Nicaragua as old foe leads
By Catherine Bremer
Reuters
Oct 23, 2006 -- MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - U.S. Cold War warrior Oliver North, famous for his role in funding Nicaraguan rebels in the Iran-Contra affair, is back in the fray in the Central American nation's tense presidential election.
North, a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines, was in the Nicaraguan capital on Monday to give his backing to the ruling Liberal Party's conservative candidate, Jose Rizo.
North said he was worried by opinion polls that show his former enemy Daniel Ortega, who led the left-wing Sandinista government during the 1980s civil war against Contra rebels, could bounce back to power in the November 5 election.
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"It's good to be back," he said
Oh, Ollie. I'm sure it is good to be back.
What else did Ollie say?
He said: "I think that ought to have everyone concerned,"
Now that's a quote that makes more sense out of context than in.
I think everyone should be concerned, too, Ollie. Concerned that you're back in Nicaragua.
North was at the center of the scheme in the 1980s to support Contra rebels in Nicaragua with the funds from secret arms sales to Iran.
The Iran-Contra scandal almost brought down the government of then President Ronald Reagan, but North's conviction for his part in the scheme was eventually overturned.
So now I"m getting to the real point of this story. At least for me.
There are a shocking number of Kossacks here who are absolutely timid about the idea of impeaching George W. Bush and his band of con men.
"We need to move forward" they say. "We don't want to scare off Republican voters" they say, even though 65% of the people in the country are really TICKED OFF at George Bush at this point.
I honestly do NOT understand this point of view, but my point is this: Oliver North is one of those bacteria that we should have dealt with twenty freaking years ago.
A lot of people tried, but the bottom line is that he got off. He escaped. We didn't come down hard enough.
There are two other goons who got away with thier involvement in a criminal administration, too.
And here they are:
Cheney and Rummy, for those who might not be so good at facial recognition. The years have been good to them, no?
The administration from which they festered? Why, Richard Nixon's, of course. Most here might be too young to remember that the country wanted to "move on" back then, too. At least that's what we were told.
This time, let's do the job right. Let's rid the country of all the evil slime that's currently infecting it. When I say "let's impeach Bush" I don't mean just Bush. I mean convict ALL of them. All the neo-cons, and everybody who was complicit in their conspiracies.
The truth needs to get out, and the truth will set this country free.
We can't have the Kissingers of the world returning to future White Houses (Kissinger is there right now, coaching little Junior on how to further Vietnamize Iraq).
We can't have the neo-con's protogees haunt us in our futures:
That's George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, with his little protogee Richard Nixon. The powerful Senator Bush virtually created Nixon. This legacy infects us today. Why should we let this continue?
If we don't deal with it now, then we'll just get more of this:
And more of this:
So when, exactly, do we learn from the past? When do we purge our country of these poisonous people?
Why not now?
Why wait till they figure out how to get back into power? So we can do it all over again? Next time there's no telling how bad they'll be -- you always think "it'll never be that bad again" -- I actually thought that about Reagan! The Reagan administration, the most corrupt presidential administration in history ...... until this one.
Why wait?