Bill Maher praises NRA President Oliver North for Iran-Contra weapon sales (1997) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ronald Reagan's national security
2. 0:03council and guest-starred on wings the
3. 0:05founder of the Freedom Alliance and host
4. 0:06of the Oliver North radio show Oliver
5. 0:08North
6. 0:09[Applause]
7. 0:13welcome back to the city defender mr.
8. 0:16bata
9. 0:17[Applause]
10. 0:17[Music]
11. 0:20well here in Washington we thought we
12. 0:22would do some local issues and since
13. 0:23this is the city that made crack famous
14. 0:26what was the mayor think yeah that means
15. 0:29all right well there's the iran-contra
16. 0:31connection but that's another now
17. 0:38little citizen alright anyway but Holly
18. 0:43for a guy who wants well against the law
19. 0:47you would have better to that let's get
20. 0:52right to it the big story this week
21. 0:53overseas Iraq my position we have become
22. 0:57a pitiful helpless giant I think this
23. 1:00man sattim Hussein needs a surgical
24. 1:03ass-kicking from Uncle Sam
25. 1:06[Applause]
26. 1:10hi time hike hike I'm absolutely no
27. 1:13doubt about it in fact what he ought to
28. 1:16get is a very straightforward warning a
29. 1:19one message notice duck but the
30. 1:23punishment that he's giving his own
31. 1:25people is far worse than any punishment
32. 1:26we could give to him here's the problem
33. 1:29the problem is the United States
34. 1:30government bombed Baghdad the capital of
35. 1:34Iraq yes and hundreds of thousands of
36. 1:36innocent people non-combatants were
37. 1:38killed
38. 1:39oh that's that's that no that's
39. 1:40absolutely wrong okay so you detective
40. 1:43that's wrong colonel was here was there
41. 1:47more than fifty thousand Iraqis killed
42. 1:49it's also Josh there's lots we didn't
43. 1:52bomb Baghdad we didn't bomb civilians it
44. 1:54surgically surgically thank you
45. 1:57there have been a lot of allegations
46. 1:59thrown around but the Contra resupply
47. 2:02offers operation was involved in cocaine
48. 2:04trafficking we found absolutely no
49. 2:07evidence during my tenure at the NSC
50. 2:10that any of the resistance leaders were
51. 2:12in themselves or their subordinates
52. 2:15involved in drug running although there
53. 2:18was enough evidence to warrant
54. 2:19investigation into CIA drug trafficking
55. 2:21there was no serious interest on the
56. 2:24part of committee members and no
57. 2:26firsthand witnesses were called at one
58. 2:29point the hearings were disrupted by two
59. 2:31observers who burst out in protest
60. 2:38[Music]
61. 2:47for these actions the protesters were
62. 2:50handed down stiff jail sentences of over
63. 2:52a year each