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Friday, May 20, 2005

Certain things

The New York Post remembers certain things:

The attack seemed to stun panel members -- who, in any event, declined to refute Galloway's assertions.

This sometimes happens when Congress is upstaged by a witness who knows how to play to the camera.

Such was seen nearly 20 years ago when a then-unknown lieutenant colonel named Oliver North punctured any hope Democrats had of turning the Iran-Contra fiasco into a scandal that would have brought down Ronald Reagan.

The charismatic North became an overnight star with his plain-spoken defense of both covert support for the Nicaraguan contras and the misguided though well-intentioned effort to free American hostages held captive by Iran.

America saw North not as some criminal in the Watergate mode, but as a hero.

Will something similar happen to Galloway in the wake of the Republican-led Congress' inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal and Galloway's in-your-face performance on Tuesday?

Probably not.

For one thing, North may have done certain things wrong, but it was in the service of his country.

Let's see, what "certain things" did North do wrong? He covertly subverted the will of Congress by selling weapons to sworn enemies in a failed bid to win the release of hostages from terrorists (whom we promised never to negotiate with), then took the proceeds of those weapon sells and used it to arm nun-murderers in Nicaragua even though Congress had specifically passed the Boland Amendment barring any American funding of the Contras. And he would've gone to prison for it, too, were it not for clumsy politicians and conservative judicial activists.

You tell me -- how is arming our enemies, negotiating with terrorists, arming nun-murderers, and covertly violating the express will of the Congress acting in the service of our country?